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...wrong people, the wrong drugs have taken over. English majors (ugh), fraternity boys and the down-and-outers who would have been bums anywhere are joining the culture. The aggressive psychotic drunk has sprung up now in the drug culture. Heroin and speed have replaced marijuana and LSD. Hippie violence against hippie has become commonplace. It is numbers: too many hippies. We can only afford so many people alienated from society...
...sound helped shape a generation whose aggressive urges were so effectively cauterized that they had little appetite for physical, intellectual or economic competition, and none for war. "Upward mobility" came to seem absurd, as did the educational system. With marijuana and LSD prolonging and deepening the disorienting effects of the music, the rock culture grew, so that today it is a predominant life-style among the 40 million Americans aged...
...midst of all this "co-optation," came the onslaught of hard drugs. In the wake of the Government's Operation Intercept, which slowed the flow of marijuana out of Mexico, grass became expensive and hard to get. When rumors linked LSD with chromosomal damage, the counterculture also turned away from that No. 1 mind tripper. In 1969, the culture switched in large numbers to Methedrine or speed, a drug that led many to chaotic, aggressive behavior. Then last year the heroin pushers moved in, and the damage was complete. The drug deaths of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin were symbolic...
...People Next Door, LSD and STP users are said to require "a controlled environment indefinitely" following their initiation, a situation that develops only rarely. A 1970 Defense Department film. The People vs. Pot, melodramatically refers to a marijuana-produced "killer instinct"-a reaction the report calls "atypical" (see following story...
...some ways, the report itself is unrealistic and nitpicking, objecting to such legitimate phrases as "some doctors believe" and "many LSD users lose all contact with reality." Some doctors do believe that LSD causes genetic damage and that marijuana may have some still undiscovered, long-range effects; they have not yet been proved wrong. Many LSD users have had bad trips and recurring psychotic episodes...