Word: lsd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because of its special hallucinogenic potency, LSD holds a particularly sinister terror for most Americans. Acid has been the villain in several bizarre and well-publicized incidents: there was the hoax that six Pennsylvania students were blinded by staring at the sun while stoned, the near death of a 5-year-old New York girl who innocently munched an LSD-laced sugar cube from the family refrigerator, the suicide of Art Linkletter's daughter Diane, 20, after a bad trip. Now a new chapter has been written in the grim folklore of LSD. Somebody slipped some acid into...
...Johnny Cash performance at the White House next week. The President passed the word that he would like to hear Welfare Cadilac (as the song's composer spells it) and Okie from Muskogee, an almost satirically Middle American hymn ("We don't take our trips on LSD, / We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street, / 'cause we like living right and being free...
JEFFREY, 19, slight and almost frail, started on marijuana at 15 and went through LSD and amphetamines before he got into heroin at 18. "I started on smack exactly on the third anniversary of the first time I smoked pot. I'd never stuck a needle in my arm before, and I was petrified. I didn't know what to expect. A friend hit us up. For me, it was a thrill thing. I spent whole weekends hitting up. I was enjoying it more and more. I started hitting up once a day, and a couple of months later...
...parents' lifetime to change the chromosomes in their germ cells, either the father's sperm or the mother's ova -most likely the ova. That something may well have been identified by the Mount Sinai doctors. The mother, the doctors found, had taken three doses of LSD nine months before her infant was conceived. The father had taken two doses a few years earlier...
...While coincidence cannot be excluded," say the doctors, "the possibility of chromosome damage to germ cells by LSD, with production of abnormal offspring, must be emphasized...