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Died. Fairleigh Dickinson III, 19, Columbia University freshman and an heir to the family's surgical-equipment fortunes, which enabled the Dickinsons to found and build New Jersey's Fairleigh Dickinson University; of a reported overdose of an opium derivative and LSD; in a friend's dormitory room on the school's Manhattan campus...
...Your Thing, But . . ." Dr. HIP is permissive about pot, concluding that medical evidence is lacking about marijuana's harm to normal people. He cites unpublished research that suggests that LSD may be no more dangerous genetically than caffeine, aspirin or other drugs. But he warns against "street drugs" with their impurities, has little good to say about amphetamines, inveighs against fad diets and fasting and harangues his readers to get VD checkups. Freedom demands responsibility, he says, so: "Do your thing-but only if it does not harm yourself or others...
Similarly, there are songs that spin such sentiments as "Happy Birthday, Abie Baby, emanci-mother-fuckin'-pator of the slaves" or LBJ took the IRT and found the youth of America on LSD." Oh, and there are songs about sodomy, hashish and the age of aquarius. As you can see, there's a lot of good stuff here...
...occult. The cause, Psychologist Rollo May believes, lies in the disintegration of familiar myths that leaves individuals alienated and adrift. When the medieval myths broke down, he argues, people turned to "witchcraft, sorcery and, in painting, the wild surrealism of a man like Bosch. In our day it is LSD, hippies and touch therapy...
...synthesizing THC is so complex and costly ($5 to $10 per effective dose) that its manufacture makes no commercial sense, even to the Mafia. According to Stanford University's Psychopharmacologist Leo Hollister, genuine THC in doses as low as 70 milligrams may produce symptoms like those caused by LSD-dizziness, blurred or vibrating vision, shortened attention span and otherworldly hallucinations. Dr. Harris Isbell of the University of Kentucky, one of the nation's top researchers in psychotropic drugs, goes further: "Sufficiently high doses of THC," he maintains, "can cause psychotic reactions in any individual...