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Word: lsd (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reputed ability to make a man aware of his true "nature," LSD has demonstrably damaging qualities as well. Mood changes can range from tears to laughter to intense anxiety, panic, and a psychedelic paranoia that duplicates psychosis to the last dotted shriek-and can last indefinitely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: The Hippies | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

White Light. Though 250 micrograms of LSD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: The Hippies | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

...drug without a federal license. Many hippies -particularly the weekend variety-have taken to using the shorter-lived and still legal DMT (dimethyltryptamine), which produces only a 45-minute trip, or else the related DET (diethyltrypta-mine), an equally short haul. Others are turning on to the milder pre-LSD hallucinogens: cactus-derived mescaline, the American Indian's peyote (it takes many bitter peyote cactus buds to achieve a high; usually, nausea comes first to the uninitiated), or psilocybin, which produces a giggly, warm high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: The Hippies | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

...newest item in the pharmacopoeia is a concoction called STP, apparently named after the gasoline additive ("It makes your motor run better," say hippies). Similar to a chemical-warfare product code-named "BZ," STP can produce a 72-hour trip-up to six times the length of an LSD voyage-and generates the "blinding white light" of hallucinatory omniscience that many hippies claim is the be-all and end-all of the drug experience. Believed to be a chemical called 5-methoxy-NN-dime-thyltryptamine, STP cannot be treated, as LSD is, by use of chlorpromazine tranquilizers to ease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: The Hippies | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

...mastermind behind STP is widely believed to be a mysterious figure named Augustus Owsley Stanley III, 32, grandson of a U.S. Senator from Kentucky, a San Francisco-based hippie chemist who got into the turn-on business two years ago, before the manunfacture and distribution of LSD was made illegal. Known as "the Henry Ford of Psychedelia," Stanley-or Owsley, as he calls himself-is said to have amassed a million-dollar fortune from acid before he turned 31 and the drug was banned. Owsley is dedicated to "turning the whole world on," and not necessarily by acid alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: The Hippies | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

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