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...else the related DET (diethyltrypta-mine), an equally short haul. Others are turning on to the milder pre-LSD hallucinogens: cactus-derived mescaline, the American Indian's peyote (it takes many bitter peyote cactus buds to achieve a high; usually, nausea comes first to the uninitiated), or psilocybin, which produces a giggly, warm high...
...bananas really work? The best that chemists can suggest is that bananas contain serotonin, a neurochemical that is closely related to such potent mind-benders as psilocybin and dimethyl tryptamine, and which just might, under combustion, trigger genuine physiological effects. It is far more likely that any high produced by bananas is imaginary, another indication that, given a receptive state of mind, it is possible to turn on with practically anything-or virtually nothing. Witness the fact that some undergraduates, dissatisfied with mellow yellow, are already beginning to tout the high potentiality of yet another new ingredient: spider webs...
...being close; LSD takes the worry out of being." The National Student Association's Chuck Hollander, 27, who has written extensively on the subject, estimates that 20% of college students use drugs, ranging from pep pills to marijuana, the amphetamines to the psychedelics (LSD, mescaline, and Psilocybin...
...Administrative Committee warned against the harmful physical and psychological effects of barbituates, amphetamines, marijuana, and the hallucinogens, which include mescaline, psilocybin and LSD--commonly known as pot, bennies, pep pills, goof balls, yellow jackets etc. The statement warns against the psychological dependence which some drugs induce, as well as "suicide attempts, suicides, and long term emotional damage as severe as apparently irreversible psychotic breaks...
...Good Friday, 1962, Pahnke made his first experiment in drug-induced mysticism in a private chapel at Boston University. Religious services were held for 20 volunteers, all of them divinity students, half of whom were given psilocybin, while the rest took a non-psychedelic substance administered as a sort of placebo to test the relative strength of the drug-induced experience. All students who had taken the drug experienced a mystical consciousness that resembled those described by saints and ascetics. A subject who had participated in another experiment said he saw "white light of absolute purity. I had the feeling...