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...LSD, the substance that was supposed to open the doors to a luminous new world of the mind, has instead opened the minds of medical researchers to a dark world of hitherto unsuspected dangers in connection with many drugs. It now appears that not only LSD, but also other, more familiar drugs may damage the human reproductive mechanism by causing breaks or other abnormalities in the chromosomes. A woman with such chromosomal dam age may have a spontaneous abortion or a stillbirth, or her child may be deformed, or develop a fatal anemia...
Granted, said Dr. Cohen, specimens from healthy people will show 4% to 5% of cells with a notched or other wise damaged chromosome. But in LSD users, the rate soars to 19%, and-at least in the test tube-still higher with some other drugs. Granted also, said the panelists, that they have seen no proven case of a birth deformity in an LSD user's child, but they are investigating several suspected cases...
...anyway. Then when we've decimated our natural environment we'll have no more of these uncalled-for acts of horror, with the possible exception of an occasional mass murderer or sex criminal which we can handle. Besides we've got marijuana and LSD now so we can make our own beauty. Who needs all these crummy parks with their crummy wildlife...
...bourgeois manager never did swing with the zesty, remarkably creative Beatles. A slightly dandified bachelor, he kept pretty much to himself; he said recently that he had made five LSD trips in one 14-month period. Asked once what he feared most in life, he replied: "Loneliness. I hope I'll never be lonely, although actually, one inflicts loneliness on oneself...
...last, the acidheads have hit Hollywood. A clear successor to the cycle of psychoanalytical films of the '40s (Spellbound, etc.) and so far about as insightful, is the first wave of movies offering a far-outside view of the mind-bending potentialities of LSD...