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Researchers studying the multifarious effects of LSD had new and disturbing reports last week. Not only does LSD expose unstable trippers to the risk of a psychotic break. Not only does it break down the chromosomes in some blood cells. The latest evidence is that it causes cell changes suspiciously like those seen in one form of leukemia. Given to a rat early in pregnancy, it usually results in stillborn or malformed young. Worse, LSD may have similar effects on the human fetus. And those chromosome breaks have been found in the babies of LSD users...
...findings of chromosome changes in blood cells, reported by Dr. Maimon M. Cohen, at Buffalo's Children's Hospital (TIME, March 24), were confirmed by the University of Oregon's Dr. Samuel Irwin, working with Dr. Jose Egozcue. They compared the white blood cells of eight LSD users with those of nine nonusers. Six of the acidheads showed a marked increase in chromosomal breaks. Two who had tak en massive doses showed a small, deformed chromosome, characteristic of a type of chronic leukemia that attacks adults. The only nonuser of LSD whose cells showed many abnormalities...
Magic Initials. In Science, Dr. George J. Alexander described the malformed rats that his research team produced at New York State Psychiatric Institute and Bronx State Hospital. Of five rats given a single shot of LSD (equivalent to an acidhead's moderately heavy dose), only one delivered an apparently normal litter. One aborted early; two had stunted offspring stillborn, and one had seven healthy young along with one stunted littermate...
Corman does not take an ideological position towards either motorcycle rovers or LSD-trippers. Not that he's making documentaries that present good and bad aspects impartially. He expects his audience to come ready-equipped with sympathy or disapproval, and he doesn't intend to shake up those feelings. He merely adds swastikas or naked ladies to the picture when the action isn't hot. In short, he is provocative without voicing any opinions...
...Trip drips with the same appeal to both generations. The hero gushes, I love the world including this girl I just met and slept with. The implication is that LSD makes loving easy. How nice. But, interrupts a spoil-sport, how 'bout tomorrow? Will love produced by a drug remain forever? Is embracing a non-tripping world realistic? Corman produces enough ambiguity to placate the rest of the world while he angles for a cool-world audience. He calculates the indecisiveness of his movies. A cop-out of the dirtiest kind...