Word: lsd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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POPE QUOTES a Harvard student recounting an LSD trip during which he was in the Adams House swimming pool: "as I swam, the lights sparkled on the water around my hands, and suddenly I was swimming through a sea of rubies and diamonds and emeralds...It was just experience, man! Pure, unadulterated experience!" The author finds it hardly surprising that a high school kid with access to acid would rather drop than "watch TV, go for a ride with his friends, study math, (or) take a date to the hamburger stand...
Less than three years later they split up in one of Hollywood's messier divorces, with Dyan charging that Grant was a weekly LSD tripper who beat her in front of the servants and tried to "remake" her. "He changed the way I wore my hair, my makeup, my speech and my clothes," she says. "If I hadn't divorced him, I'd be dead...
...Polk would have read, ride horseback through the countryside and trip out occasionally on drugs-all in order to put himself inside Folk's psyche. Parsons' point is that historians too often neglect what he calls the "emotional dimension" of history. He is probably right, but using LSD to re-create the Spirit of '76 might make the upcoming bicentennial celebration a bit more than most Americans bargain...
...disease and those with histories of severe head injury. Because all the patients had also taken other drugs during the years preceding the study, the doctors were cautious about blaming the brain damage solely on marijuana. But their report left little doubt that they held cannabis responsible. Amphetamines and LSD are quickly metabolized and passed out of the system; marijuana is not. Though the patients had used other drugs in varying amounts, all puffed pot regularly...
...sure of is that he should not have taken LSD: "It's bad news; it really is . . . I think what acid does is it intensifies everything, my feelings about myself. I was screwed up enough without taking acid. Probably just buried me deeper in my hole than I was before I started tripping...