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A Better Race? Though most of the country is not yet "turned on," Leary told the faithful in a lecture titled "The Politics and Ethics of Ecstasy," the "psychedelic battle" is over and won, and some 1,000,000 Americans have already had "psychedelic experiences." LSD may even be creating...
Leary hastened, however, to praise the gains which have resulted from experiments with LSD and other hallucinogens. "LSD cures alcoholism accelerates learning, and may be helpful in treating all forms of mental illness," he said. But because of possible harmful side-effects of the drug, he advised development of further...
"I don't know how the psychedelic explosion can be stopped," said Leary "and I don't even know if it's good or bad, but I do know that our society is not so perfect that it cannot stand a generation of experiment."
Leary's doubts about the psychedelic movement did not extend to marijuana. "The only problem with marijuana," he said, "is that it is almost free. It is not addictive, nontoxic, and less dangerous than alchohol."
San Francisco State College's famed Semanticist S. I. Hayakawa has no illusions. When ETC., the quarterly review of the International Society for General Semantics, devoted a special issue to LSD and other psychedelic drugs, Editor Hayakawa chose a few acid words for acid heads. Wrote he: "Most people...