Word: lsd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statement of Drs. Farnsworth and Prout on marijuana (I'll leave the LSD part to someone who knows more about that drug) is a mixture of some fact, considerable nonsense, and a great deal more exaggeration and innuendo. It reads like a handout from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (ghostwritten maybe?) and is an inexcusable document for a medical unit that is supposedly well staffed, particularly one that has access to a decent medical library. Some points...
...instances marijuana has produced psychoses, as does LSD." This, I presume, is to suggest some similarity in such transient or toxic psychoses. I've seen no evidence for such. I know of two psychotic episodes following administration of marijuana, one excessive, taken orally, both lasting under 20 minutes, neither with any after effects. Such cases are so rare as to be almost negligible...
...social influences surrounding the use of marijuana also encourage experimentation with other drugs, notably L.S.D., and, of course, may lead into addiction to narcotics." The part about access to LSD may be true, but the part about the narcotics (notice the "of course," immediately hedged by a "may") is bunk, first order. This is an old warhorse, one first heaved up in the great pot hysteria of the thirties; it has never been demonstrated scientifically, there is considerable evidence against it. If you talk to many junkies (I have) you find that many have used marijuana, true, but they...
Wilson's designs are equally and intentionally psychedelic. Expanding like the mind to fill every conceivable bit of space, they are intended to capture the visual experiences of an LSD tripper when, as one hippie puts it, "you look at your hand, and it goes in all directions. Its outline is lost, but the colors are beautiful...
...Games Addicts Play. Of all the different highs, the one that has gripped the imagination of teen-agers most is LSD. Says San Mateo, Calif., High School Superintendent Leon Lessinger: "The issue is LSD. Sooner or later you confront it." Lessinger himself was so shocked when he discovered at least 20 hard LSD users in his own affluent school district that he went out and raised $21,000 to finance an antiacid color documentary, now in the works, called LSD 25. Lessinger got his second shock when Film Maker David Parker asked the high school students whom they would trust...