Word: lsd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years. The flower people of the late 1960s, mostly middle-class kids trying to create a gaudy secular religion, have given way to a desperate culture of emotionally troubled rejects, largely from working-class and even ghetto families. Amphetamines, heroin and old-fashioned alcohol have generally replaced pot and LSD; violence has supplanted Aquarian love. Now the area is open to the professional pimp, who uses a combination of terrorism, drugs and ersatz affection to lure confused teen-age girls into prostitution. The teeny-hookers have created a glut on the market, sneers a tough old pro of 20. "They...
...Arica. Among the 50 seekers who made the trip-and paid from $4,000 to $7,000 apiece for the ten-month experience -were artists, housewives, businessmen and a few scientists (among them Dr. John Lilly, the dolphin expert, who had previously tried to achieve higher consciousness on LSD trips). Almost half were disenchanted defectors from Esalen, the encounter center at Big Sur, Calif.; all were searching for the good life, and, under Oscar's tutelage, 42 concluded that they had found it. These survivors established the institute, became its faculty, and launched the first classes last October...
...desensitizing us." She objects to a film like Straw Dogs because it equates violence and masculinity. Few psychiatrists would argue with her. Nor would they disagree with critics who object that filmed violence has become the ultimate trip, the stimulus for mind-blowing sensations wilder than any induced by LSD...
...LSD Threat...
...finally, in a portentous replay of elections past, Bernard Garmire, Miami's chief of police, yesterday revealed that he had received threats that Miami's water supply would be laced with LSD during the upcoming Democratic convention...