Word: lsd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Congress faces urban riots with anti-riot bills to punish interstate agitators. It reacts to anti-war protests with stiffer regulations against draft card burning. For the drug problem, Congress makes LSD use a felony...
...fetus is aborted, the Whitmans and the Hanemas get divorced, Piet and Foxy marry and move away. The remaining couples take up bridge, their place in the town having been quietly usurped by a younger crowd that "held play readings, and kept sex in its place, and experimented with LSD." Toward the end, Updike provides a fortissimo blast of obvious symbolism: the Congregational Church goes up in an apocalyptic fire that leaves untouched only the old tin weathercock, riding high over the gutted house...
...coordination. As for mental effects, a few psychiatrists regard marijuana as a mild hallucinogen or mild psychedelic, but they are virtually unanimous in insisting that they have never seen a severe illness (psychosis) brought on by marijuana-in sharp contrast with the frequency of such breakdowns among people on LSD. Dr. Duke Fisher, of the U.C.L.A. Neuropsychiatric Institute, says: "When normal people take marijuana, there's no adverse reaction. When pre-psychotic people take it, there can be a serious psychotic reaction, but then marijuana is only a catalyst, and often only in conjunction with LSD or some other...
Extreme Dosage. Last week, at a Chicago conference on psychedelic drugs, Dr. Donald R. Jasinski of the National Institute of Mental Health reported that he had produced LSD-like symptoms with tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), one of the purified active ingredients in cannabis. The test patient, he said, developed visual hallucinations, distortions of sensory perception, loss of insight, muscle rigidity and muteness. "He later related that he saw himself shrivel down to a doll, and witnessed his own funeral," said Dr. Jasinski. To Dr. Harris Isbell of the Federal Addiction Research Center in Lexington, Ky., Dr. Jasinski's experiments "definitely indicated...
...Maimon Cohen, geneticist at the State University of New York at Buffalo, reported last week that in a study of 220 LSD users between 70% and 80% showed chromosomal damage in their blood cells-four times the normal rate. What is more, he said, babies of women who had taken LSD during the first three months of pregnancy showed increased chromosome breaks in body cells...