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...Polk would have read, ride horseback through the countryside and trip out occasionally on drugs-all in order to put himself inside Folk's psyche. Parsons' point is that historians too often neglect what he calls the "emotional dimension" of history. He is probably right, but using LSD to re-create the Spirit of '76 might make the upcoming bicentennial celebration a bit more than most Americans bargain...
...disease and those with histories of severe head injury. Because all the patients had also taken other drugs during the years preceding the study, the doctors were cautious about blaming the brain damage solely on marijuana. But their report left little doubt that they held cannabis responsible. Amphetamines and LSD are quickly metabolized and passed out of the system; marijuana is not. Though the patients had used other drugs in varying amounts, all puffed pot regularly...
...tell you one thing, Dave, and anybody else who's listening: you can really get messed up on that stuff." The "stuff" was LSD, and the words were spoken into a tape recorder last year by Craig Gardner, a University of Utah honor student, just a few hours before he drove into the Wyoming countryside and shot himself between the eyes. Craig's warning about the hazards of LSD, addressed chiefly to his roommate Dave Bizak, is beginning to reach a far wider audience. It is incorporated into the sound track of a new educational film that shuns...
...Maynard Clark and Arthur Miller of Princeton, NJ. They acquired the tape by chance and set out to learn more about Craig by interviewing his relatives and friends. Then they filmed the apartment he had shared with Dave (and where he had begun experimenting with marijuana before moving to LSD). They also worked in some of the Gardner family snapshots and home movies and added some moving comments by Craig's younger sister Gayle...
...sure of is that he should not have taken LSD: "It's bad news; it really is . . . I think what acid does is it intensifies everything, my feelings about myself. I was screwed up enough without taking acid. Probably just buried me deeper in my hole than I was before I started tripping...