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Seven years ago Judge Brieant had sentenced Buettner-Janusch to five years in jail for manufacturing LSD and Quaaludes in his Washington Square laboratory, a facility that NYU had built specially...
History offers ample evidence. Ritual opium use has been traced back to Greece and Cyprus as early as 2000 B.C. The ancient Aztecs took ololiuqui (similar to LSD), peyote, marijuana and other mind benders. In the Middle Ages, witches rubbed their bodies with hallucinogenic ointments...
Drugs stayed on the fringes of society throughout the '50s, but Beat Generation artists began enhancing their perceptions with pot and later with more mind-bending hallucinogens. LSD's hallucinogenic qualities were discovered by a chemist who accidentally swallowed a dose in 1943. By the early '60s, an obscure Harvard lecturer named Timothy Leary began feeding his students LSD and advising them to "turn on, tune in, drop out." Fired by Harvard, he promptly became a counterculture deity...
Slowly the dark side emerged. San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the communal temple of flower power, became a seedy slum of strung-out addicts. Heroin sent urban crime soaring as addicts stole to sustain their habits. For many college students, LSD became a bad trip...
...current favorite of college students is MDMA, better known simply as "Ecstasy." Described as the "LSD of the '80s," MDMA offers the euphoric rush of cocaine and some of the mind-expanding qualities of hallucinogens without the scary visual distortions. It may also cause permanent brain damage. Last year the Drug Enforcement Administration outlawed MDMA...