Word: lsd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than a year after he began using lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), a 19-year-old U.S. college freshman was admitted to New York's Presbyterian Hospital complaining of fever and malaise. After extensive laboratory tests, his ailment was diagnosed as acute leukemia, or "cancer of the blood," a fatal disease of the blood-forming organs. At about the same time, a 22-year-old Australian suffering from an obsessive-compulsive neurosis was treated with LSD injections for two months. A year later, suffering from fatigue, pallor, bleeding gums, rashes and an "influenza-like illness," he too was found...
Chromosome Breaks. Two cases obviously do not prove that "acid" is leukemogenic as well as hallucinogenic. For more than two years, however, laboratory evidence connecting LSD and leukemia has been mounting. Cell damage from LSD was first reported in March 1967 by a team of researchers headed by Dr. Maimon M. Cohen at the State University of New York in Buffalo. Within six months, so much evidence had accumulated that the National Foundation-March of Dimes called an emergency meeting of top geneticists to consider the problem. The geneticists were properly hesitant to report outright that LSD causes leukemia. Nevertheless...
Discussing the young Australian leukemia victim in the June 28 issue of the British Medical Journal, Dr. O. Margaret Garson and Meryl K. Robson moved a little closer to blaming LSD directly for the abnormalities. "The association between the ingestion of lysergide and the occurrence of acute leukemia may be casual rather than causal," they wrote, "but certain unusual features in our case suggest that it may be causal." Among these features were the patient's unusual bone-marrow chromosome pattern and the presence of large cells containing multiple micronucleoli. Dr. Lionel Grossbard and colleagues at Columbia...
DURING the past 23 years, more than half of the world's governments have been overthrown by coups d'etat. Conspirators are increasingly aware that complex societies are vulnerable to attack. Slash a wire, start a rumor, dump LSD into reservoirs: today any determined guerrilla can stop The System. One man with one bullet can change history. A handful can take over a country...
...pallid little ghost story, only to be distracted by a long overdue awareness of her own insubstantiality. She is also distracted by other guests: an old platonic friend who she discovers is a homosexual, an alcoholic has-been novelist, a professional East Village poet who probably writes off LSD experiences as business trips, and a sexy, uncouth junk-sculptor...