Word: lsd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Within hours of each other last week, the Governors of California and Nevada signed bills imposing fines of as much as $1,000 and sentences of up to one year behind bars for possession of the hallucinogenic drug LSD. This week a similar measure is expected to become law in New Jersey. In the weird light of LSD's often nightmarish effects, it might seem that such a crackdown would be widely applauded. On the contrary, U.S. legislators and drug experts are actually engaged in a strenuous debate over the degree and kind of controls that should be imposed...
Miss Bieberman, a resident of 26 Boylston St., Cambridge, runs a one-woman organization called the Psychedelic information Center for users of LSD and similar drugs. Her main aim is to bring psychedelic information out into the open because she believes people can use psychedelics constructively in their daily lives...
Nevada and California became, on Monday, the first states to legislate against the use of LSD. Both states allow LSD to be employed in scientific research or in supervised medical care, but prohibit unlicensed manufacture, general sale, or possession of the drug...
Opponents of the California bill nearly succeeded in defeating it. They claimed that making LSD illegal would be an added incentive...
Timothy Leary, former lecturer in Clinical Psychology, termed anti-LSD laws "hysterical" and "unrealistic." He proposed that Brown try LSD to "discover first-hand why the young people of his state are willing to risk prison to expand their consciousness...