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Czechoslovak scientists have now developed a technique for using hormone-like chemicals to attack one species of bug at a time. Working with DMF, a synthesized chemical compound that acts like a juvenile hormone, a Prague team under Biologist Karel Sláma discovered that it took just one microgram (a millionth of a gram) to sterilize for life a female linden-bug. They also found that a dose as much as 10,000 times the amount of DMF required to produce sterility would cause no other harmful effects. So they figured that a male linden-bug treated with...
...Together. Not that The Haight-Ashbury Utopia needs any new source of supply. Narcotics arrests in the district last year more than trebled (from 148 in 1965 to 485 in 1966). A "lid" (22 grams) of marijuana sells for $10 (v. $25 in New York City) and a 100 microgram "tab" of LSD can be had for $4. Some pot peddlers even pass out supermarket-style trading stamps with each purchase. Apart from narcotics arrests, however, the crime rate shows no drastic escalation. During a January "Human Be-In" at Golden Gate Park, 10,000 hippies turned out to sing...
...most disturbing aspects of the LSD binge is that it has hit high schools and prep schools. A 17-year-old user reports that there is a sales ring in his Sherman Oaks school pushing LSD at a penny a microgram. The usual dose of the pure chemical, used by psychiatric investigators, is 100 mcg. (1/300,000th of an ounce), but even junior acid heads boast of taking walloping overdoses. "I've taken as much as 500 micrograms," says one youthful user. "At least that's what I paid...
...Angeles Psychiatrist Sidney Cohen, "LSD can kill you dead-by making you feel that you can walk on water, or fly." Author of The Beyond Within: the LSD Story (TIME, Dec. 18, 1964), Dr. Cohen has taken LSD himself half a dozen times, and admits: "After a 150-microgram dose, I got a massive jolt that I'll never forget. I got a chance to really look at myself, and I didn't like some of the things...
...last the chemists isolated a small drop (20 mg.) of colorless, oily stuff, odorless to humans but with an enormous attraction for male gypsy moths. It could be diluted almost endlessly. Less than one ten-thousandth of a billionth of a gram (10 -7 microgram) of it was enough to bring eager males fluttering out of the woods. When the potent oil was analyzed, it proved to be a surprisingly simple chemical (10-acetoxy-1-hydroxy-cis-7-hexadecene) that can be synthesized for $5 per Ib. Dr. Jacobson has about 1 Ib. on hand. If it were diluted...