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...busy with church affairs, young Jim as a teen-ager was turning on to the hippie way of life. In his freshman year at San Francisco State College, he moved out of the family home for a pad in the Hashbury, where he experimented with marijuana, peyote, LSD, and Romilar. In 1965, Pike was granted a six-month sabbatical to study theology and church history at Cambridge. He invited his son to accompany him, in hopes of helping him kick the drug habit. Jim accepted, but he took along, as the bishop discovered later, a supply of marijuana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spiritualism: Search for a Dead Son | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

...pulled tight for those two schools; and while they glimpse the development of political activism on their campuses, their students are trying out the tragi-comic scene of dropping, blowing, and shooting pot, acid, hash, speed, belladonna, sunflower seeds, airplane glue, freon, Benzedrex Inhaler tubes, Paragoric Pall Malls, Romilar, and Dr. Schein's Asmador Powder...

Author: By Evan Vaughan, | Title: Notes From the Prep School Underground: Drugs and Love Ethic at Exeter, Andover | 5/29/1968 | See Source »

Drugs spread horizontally at Andover because all four classes share dormitories with only other members of their class. There is a minimum of socializing between different age groups. As a result, each class comes up with strange new drugs of their own. For the sophomores it is Romilar. Romilar is a cough syrup, $1.50 without prescription. Drink a whole bottle down to get high. One student said, "It doesn't make you throw up like Lavoris (another high). It stiffens you up so you can't move...

Author: By Evan Vaughan, | Title: Notes From the Prep School Underground: Drugs and Love Ethic at Exeter, Andover | 5/29/1968 | See Source »

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