Word: lsd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alienated of a latter-day generation, Huxley was all heart: pacifist, passionate pioneer of mind-blowing drugs, hippie blood brother in Oriental mysticism. But when this Aldous Huxley, shot through with cancer and LSD, died at 69-a few hours after President Kennedy-on Nov. 22, 1963, he could have met no stranger ghost on his final trip than his younger self...
...purified and concentrated active ingredient of marijuana, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), can cause the same sort of hallucinogenic symptoms as LSD. Pro-marijuana physicians point out that THC is in such limited experimental production and is so difficult to synthesize, that few if any marijuana users are likely to get their hands on it. The A.M.A. feels that any LSD-like drug, in any concentration, should not be available to the public...
...reader learns, for instance, about a "pretty young girl" living in Cambridge, Mass., who is warned by the reporter that LSD may cause birth defects in her children. She replies: "So what, the children will be screwed-up anyway...
...nearly all students argue that promiscuity is not on the rise. What they take for granted is sex among couples who consider themselves "pinned," engaged, or just plain in love. Honest relationships now, they contend, will lead to better marriages later on. And while students are increasingly aware that LSD and Methedrine are dangerous, marijuana has become an accepted part of college culture. For many, it simply provides a more illuminating kind of high than alcohol does...
...young America. An opportunistic Senator (Hal Holbrook) gets a law passed that enfranchises 15-year-olds. They elect Jones President, and suddenly, he-and-shedonism is for everyone under 35. Oldsters who have passed that milestone are packed into concentration camps and mind-blown with a steady diet of LSD...