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...letter goes: "Dear Abby: I am with you all the way on your stand against marijuana and LSD. Don't let anyone tell you that the best colleges and universities are indifferent to its use by their students. I am enclosing (sic) a letter to the editor of the Keene, N.H. Evening Sentinel, which also runs your column. Readers always read Dear Abby, so I hope you feel this letter is worthy of publishing in your column...
...Thus, someone smoking opium was termed 'on the hip.' Years later American jazz musicians took up the word, applying it indiscriminately to anyone on drugs. In the present-day vernacular, it suggests looking beyond the camouflage of everyday reality, usually with the help of LSD and pot, but not always...
...newest item in the pharmacopoeia is a concoction called STP, apparently named after the gasoline additive ("It makes your motor run better," say hippies). Similar to a chemical-warfare product code-named "BZ," STP can produce a 72-hour trip-up to six times the length of an LSD voyage-and generates the "blinding white light" of hallucinatory omniscience that many hippies claim is the be-all and end-all of the drug experience. Believed to be a chemical called 5-methoxy-NN-dime-thyltryptamine, STP cannot be treated, as LSD is, by use of chlorpromazine tranquilizers to ease...
...mastermind behind STP is widely believed to be a mysterious figure named Augustus Owsley Stanley III, 32, grandson of a U.S. Senator from Kentucky, a San Francisco-based hippie chemist who got into the turn-on business two years ago, before the manunfacture and distribution of LSD was made illegal. Known as "the Henry Ford of Psychedelia," Stanley-or Owsley, as he calls himself-is said to have amassed a million-dollar fortune from acid before he turned 31 and the drug was banned. Owsley is dedicated to "turning the whole world on," and not necessarily by acid alone...
...Minujin, 25. The Minuphone is what she calls an "environment." The viewer is invited to step inside and dial a number. The phone really works (its number is 581-4570)-but it also sets off a sequence of experiences that suggest the giddying effect of a short trip on LSD...