Word: lsd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...store for his disciples is a good question. Yet for openers he has persuaded the Beatles to renounce drugs. Paul claims that he now realizes that taking drugs was "like taking an aspirin without having a headache." Says John: "If we'd met Maharishi before we had taken LSD, we wouldn't have needed to take it." Skeptics notwithstanding, the Beatles could well be on to something fruitful again, which may find expression in who knows what strange new musical forms...
...LSD, the substance that was supposed to open the doors to a luminous new world of the mind, has instead opened the minds of medical researchers to a dark world of hitherto unsuspected dangers in connection with many drugs. It now appears that not only LSD, but also other, more familiar drugs may damage the human reproductive mechanism by causing breaks or other abnormalities in the chromosomes. A woman with such chromosomal dam age may have a spontaneous abortion or a stillbirth, or her child may be deformed, or develop a fatal anemia...
Granted, said Dr. Cohen, specimens from healthy people will show 4% to 5% of cells with a notched or other wise damaged chromosome. But in LSD users, the rate soars to 19%, and-at least in the test tube-still higher with some other drugs. Granted also, said the panelists, that they have seen no proven case of a birth deformity in an LSD user's child, but they are investigating several suspected cases...
...experts agreed: no man or woman should take LSD during the reproductive years, except for sound medical reasons-and none of the panelists could think of a single such reason...
...bourgeois manager never did swing with the zesty, remarkably creative Beatles. A slightly dandified bachelor, he kept pretty much to himself; he said recently that he had made five LSD trips in one 14-month period. Asked once what he feared most in life, he replied: "Loneliness. I hope I'll never be lonely, although actually, one inflicts loneliness on oneself...