Word: lsd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LSD (Capitol) is a documentary of degeneration, with historical data, current statistics, comments from "acidheads" on why they dig the drug, from "travel agents" on why they sell it, and from medical experts on its appalling effects. Against a background of psychedelic music and the hallucinatory laughter of "stoned" kids, the shattering screams of a young man on his 34th trip put into frightening perspective the never-never world of society's dropouts...
According to Ronald Vanelli, director of Laboratories at Harvard, LSD can be easily made from the related chemical lysergic acid--itself not an illegal drug--by anyone with a basic knowledge of organic chemistry...
...agents have found only one setup for producing this "bathtub" LSD in the area--a Boston apartment where two students were synthesizing a crude form of the drug. But they suspect that the same simple equipment may be duplicated on college campuses nearby, and that faculty members and graduate lab assistants as well as students may be involved...
...official probe has been made at Harvard. Dean Monro said yesterday that he has no reason to believe LSD is being made here. Until he does, he said, he is not planning to recommend that access to chemicals like lysergic acid be controlled more strictly in the laboratories...
Barbiturates and pep pills cannot be made as easily as LSD, but FDA officials rate sales of these drugs as an even more widespread problem. They estimate that ten billion of the pills are sold in the U.S. every year, and that illegal trade on college campuses makes up a major part of the total...