Word: lsd
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...high times may be a changin', but America's drug scene is as frightening as ever. Last week the University of Michigan released a survey showing a rise in illicit drug use by American college students, with the most significant increase involving hallucinogens like LSD. Meanwhile a canvas of narcotics experts across the country indicated that while drug fashions vary from region to region and class to class, crack use is generally holding steady and heroin and marijuana are on the rise. Junior high and high school students surveyed by the government report a greater availability of most serious drugs...
...high agitation. Some drug experts sense a sociological sea change. "It's really relevant that in the '80s the drug of choice was one that the second you did it, you wanted more," says Carlo McCormick, an editor at a culture and fashion monthly who was the host of LSD parties in New York City in the '80s. "At this point with the current crop of drugs, you're set for the night." Others have a wider perspective. "If you look historically at a large population that has been using a stimulant like cocaine," says James Nielsen, a 26-year...
Other hard-learned lessons seem not to affect young people today. LSD use among high school seniors reached its highest level last year since 1983, according to an annual study by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. In the rave clubs of Los Angeles, $2 to $5 buys a teenager a 10-to-12-hour LSD high. "LSD may be a prime example of generational forgetting," says Lloyd Johnston, principal investigator for the study. "Today's youngsters don't hear what an earlier generation heard -- that LSD may cause bad trips, flashbacks, schizophrenia, brain damage, chromosomal damage...
...hundred yards from the stage, in an area known as the Village, a man named Ellisdee Rick is selling an "LSD Flight Simulator," a kaleidoscope- like device that straps on over the eyes: "It's the ultimate binocular looking into the neuroverse. It will probably replace the frisbee, and has already replaced Rubik's Cube." In the speaker's tent, a more serious exploration of the mind is under way as teenage audience members step onto a central stage and debate. "Utah is a hypocritical state." "You got the choice before you get pregnant." "If it's wrong...
...results indicate that in 1992, 9.5% of eighth-graders (up from 9% in a similar survey in 1991) used inhalants -- glue, nitrous oxide, solvents and other such volatile substances; 7.2% (up from 6.2%) smoked marijuana or hashish, and 2.1% (up from 1.7%) of these 13-year-olds took LSD. The diminution of drug taking among older teenagers (the percentage of 12th- graders who had smoked marijuana, for example, fell from 23.9% to 21.9%) suggested that while the relentless antidrug line in schools and on TV may be having an impact, many younger kids seem not to be getting the message...