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...letter then goes on to cite the testimony of one user of LSD who reports that he was "constantly hallucinated and utterly confused" from his use of the drug. Getting no help from UHS, the individual then "took more, a great deal more, LSD and marijuana. . .and my so called psychosis disappeared...
Psychedevotional at Ohm. Op art has conditioned gallerygoers to accept art that visually leaps from the wall to assault the optic jugular. Much luminal art is similarly turned on. The USCO group of Garnerville, N.Y., can induce the hallucinatory traumas that occur in some LSD trips by means of blinding strobe lights-the visual equivalent of the electronic scream at the end of the Beatles' record Penny Lane...
ONCE UPON a time, when the Beatles were still in Liverpool and no one had heard of LSD, Marshall McLuhan was an easy man to like. He could explain everything from Homer to baseball with a single, breathtaking theory. The few who had read him possessed the key to history, politics, art, literature and contemporary society. But now it has all been lost...
...instances marijuana has produced psychoses, as does LSD." This, I presume, is to suggest some similarity in such transient or toxic psychoses. I've seen no evidence for such. I know of two psychotic episodes following administration of marijuana, one excessive, taken orally, both lasting under 20 minutes, neither with any after effects. Such cases are so rare as to be almost negligible...
...social influences surrounding the use of marijuana also encourage experimentation with other drugs, notably L.S.D., and, of course, may lead into addiction to narcotics." The part about access to LSD may be true, but the part about the narcotics (notice the "of course," immediately hedged by a "may") is bunk, first order. This is an old warhorse, one first heaved up in the great pot hysteria of the thirties; it has never been demonstrated scientifically, there is considerable evidence against it. If you talk to many junkies (I have) you find that many have used marijuana, true, but they...