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...hospitals, conservation, the Peace Corps or "a learning corps," and should exempt "philosophical and political as well as religious" objectors. The convention opposed as "undemocratic" the draft's 2-S classification, which defers students. Another resolution urged the repeal of laws banning the sale of marijuana and LSD...
...psychedelic drugs is an energy-sapping addiction...and is inappropriate as a method for spiritual growth," writes Cohen. He indicts both LSD and marijuana...
...condemnation stems somewhat from the anti-drug pronouncement of one particularly well-thought-of Indian religious ascetic, Avatar Meher Baba. American psychedelists had appealed to this guru for spiritual advice even some journeying to India "forever," for "the Truth," as part of a widespread LSD-nick Orientalism. But it was ironic, Cohen writes, that, "encouraged by the apparent fit of the Eastern metaphors (for hallucinogenic mystical experiences), the psychedelic vanguard overlooked the fact that Eastern spiritual leaders had consistently dissuaded their disciples from using drugs for spiritual advancement...
Cohen himself is one of the first to jump off the bandwagon. Baba's assertions, he says, "certainly corroborate my own conclusions about the after-effects of LSD...
...missionary, Cohen does not condemn LSD absolutely. But he declares "one can validly suspect the principle of any spiritual movement which does not encourage its members to work within society to change the social environment for the better...