Word: lsd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TECHNICALLY Easy Rider is a clumsy first picture. Hopper breaks directorial line in almost every sequence to no valuable effect. Kovacs' landscapes and wide-angle shots of the two motorcycles crossing the Southwest are quite marvelous; but the LSD sequence is predictable--lots of fish-eye shots, weeping, and intimation of death--and boring, and doesn't do justice to the drug (compare Conrad Rooks' sublime hallucinations in Chappaqua or in any film by Jordan Belson). Hopper also has an irritating editing affectation: when indicating the passage of time he'll cut two frames of the next sequence in twice...
...Harvard student was arrested Monday night when police raided a rented house in Weston, Mass. that contained over $5,000 dollars worth of chemicals and equipment used in the manufacturing of LSD...
Drug users insist that marijuana, amphetamines, LSD and other psychedelic agents give them pleasure, a euphoric "high" and a marvelous expansion of consciousness. A growing body of medical data suggests that they are kidding themselves on all these counts. Psychiatrists and psychologists are coming to the conclusion that potheads and acidheads do not turn on simply for pleasure and thrills, but in a futile attempt to escape profound depression; that if they get high, it is only in an ecstatic defense; and that they do not wind up with an expanded consciousness but with a decidedly contracted...
...narcotics and other drugs rated dangerous. Nixon asked Congress to impose stiff penalties for violations, and to make federal drug-abuse law more consistent. Now the penalty for sale of marijuana is two to ten years in prison for a first offender, while sale of the far more dangerous LSD carries only a maximum one-year term. The Administration asked Congress to set from five to 20 years as the penalty for sale of both drugs. It will also propose a uniform law for the 50 states...
...imposition of penalties for possession, or even use, makes criminals of ordinary young people who are carried away by a simple urge for experimentation. These are moderate reformers, who do not advocate abolition of laws against importation or sale of marijuana, and who offer no defense whatever for LSD or other "hard" drugs...