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...explains why the BDAC has recently enlisted coeds and young agents to infiltrate college groups. BDAC has nothing to do with such notorious narcotics as heroin and morphine, which are policed by the Treasury Department's Bureau of Narcotics. Though BDAC has been given responsibility for surveillance of LSD, its main concern is with the amphetamines, barbiturates and the milder tranquilizers, which are legal on prescription and medically valuable-but are nonetheless dangerous when bandied about on campuses and highways...
...life and a sacrament," said Leary, "and a sacrament is something that gets you high." He then downed the water, and launched into a debate with Jerome Y. Lettvin, professor of Biology and Electrical Engineering at M.I.T. on the merits and evils of LSD...
...show of his own without slides. He asked himself whether he would trade places with Leary, who claimed he was ecstatic. "Why don't I? Is it love of the real world? Is it that my own ego would be destroyed?" Lettvin said he objected to LSD on moral grounds, since certain drugs cause permanent suspension of judgment. To opt for saying "so what?" he argued, was an unbearable decision...
...fifty takers of LSD suffers brain damage, Lettvin charged, "I cannot see you, Tim, as anything but the tool of the devil...
...LSD he said, "Hearing about people's trips is like hearing about their operations." He called the drug "instant Zen," saying that some of the insights people get on trips are familiar to students of mysticism. But taking LSD is a dangerous way to achieve insights, he said...