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Lisa Bieberman '63, 24-year-old psychedelic drug devotee, was given a year's suspended jail sentence yesterday for shipping LSD to Kansas and California...
What kind of person is likely to enjoy a trip on LSD? Only the extravert, Alabama Psychiatrist Patrick H. Linton suggested last week at a regional meeting of the National Association for Men tal Health. Dr. Linton gave equal doses of LSD-25 to 14 mental patients, all men, half of whom were introspective and trying to avoid contact with the outside world, while the other half were outgoing, eager to meet people and to talk about themselves. The results were astonishingly uniform...
...tense, withdrawn subjects said precious little about their LSD experience except to complain of pain, weakness, dizziness and feelings of apprehension. They did not dredge up recollections of infancy or talk about their emotional problems. They scarcely moved, even when they were lying in obviously uncomfortable positions. When asked about changes in the appearance of the room or the view from the window, they usually reported none...
...vivid colors. One looked through the window and "saw" a nonexistent work gang on a nonexistent orange bridge. He watched the scene change to a phantom blue lake complete with a phantom ship. Another happily described the chalets in a Swiss village. All these patients enjoyed describing their LSD-distorted visions and did not complain of discomfort even when they reported feelings of being dismembered. They kept moving about to see how this would affect their sensations...
Although he is equally opposed to the use of both the psychedelics and marijuana, Farnsworth differentiated between the dangers posed by the two. Marijuana, unlike LSD, is not intrinsically harmful, he noted, "but its danger lies in the peer group pressure to go on to other things. The harm is not to the brain, but to the individual...