Word: lsd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...junkie who had crawled, literally, into the emergency room of Capitol Hill Hospital after suffering multiple stab wounds while tripping out on LSD. He had no wallet, no insurance and no chance. He did, however, have an unregistered handgun...
...movement for medicinal marijuana has been around since the '60s, but its supporters have usually been those who also supported legalized marijuana, and legalized LSD and legalized glue sniffing. In the 1970s and earlier '80s, medicinal marijuana gained support from many doctors, but it was too late--the movement was inextricably associated with a lunatic fringe of burnt-out hippies making their last pathetic effort to salvage the '60s. In the Reagan-Bush years, that kind of coalition just doesn't float...
Marijuana is useful in treating multiple sclerosis, glaucoma, AIDS, herpes and the side effects associated with chemotherapy, Grinspoon said. However, the FDA currently classifies the drug as a Schedule I drug, which means it can only be used in government experiments, and cannot be prescribed by doctors. Heroin and LSD are also Schedule I drugs...
Somewhere along the line, drugs became a convenient escape route. She took the prescription drug Percodan for the ongoing heartbreak and pain, and she dropped LSD ritually for transcendent illumination. "Drugs became a way of blunting the sharpness of the juts. Juts-tapositioning oneself," she says. "I always wanted to blunt and blur what was painful. My idea was pain reduction and mind expansion, but I ended up with mind reduction and pain expansion." Her excesses eventually landed her in a hospital emergency ward, having her stomach pumped...
...stems from the company the technology has been keeping. Nolan Bushnell, who founded Atari in the mid-'70s, eagerly foresees games in which people would not just play but actually be Ms. Pac-Man. One of the most enthusiastic proponents is Timothy Leary, the former Harvard researcher who popularized LSD in the '60s and now has visions of a whole new generation "tripping" electronically. "Everyone will be equal in cyberspace," says Leary. "Inequalities of class and race will be eliminated...