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Fifteen years ago Harvard students drowned their troubles in liquor; last year they took to LSD. Today the get high on Macrobiotics, a brown rice diet said to produce euphoria within two or three days...
...went back to telling us how brown rice was so much safer than drugs. Drugs destroy the nervous system, he said. One Harvard Macrobiotic had taken so much LSD that his nerves became insensitive to starvation pains. Mr. Kushi had tried to save the young man from starving, our friend said; he had diagnosed the student's condition as extreme yang and fed him yin foods. When he died at the Institute a week before Christmas, he weighed 90 pounds, although he was nearly six feet tall. Our friend seemed to accept his death with calm resolve...
...DEFENDERS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Donald Pleasence stars as a former doctor accused of manslaughter for advocating the use of the hallucinogenic drug LSD...
...each other. Sanford M. Unger's is the most informative; the others can be ignored. The most frightening kind of experimental fooling-around mentioned in the book is Eric Kast's work in Chicago. Kast decided to send 128 doomed cancer patients into hopped-up oblivion by giving them LSD without warning or previous instruction. He then calmly graphed the depression and "fear and panic" reactions, hallucinations and morbid fears of death...
...effects of LSD do suggest some chemical causations in mental diseases. No one has much idea what physiological mechanism causes the LSD experience. This seems to be the most important area of research, but it receives less emphasis, at least in this book, than does shot-in-the-dark administration of the drug...