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InvisibleveggieM

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This Day In History - March 25, 1966
    #14179119 - 03/24/11 10:29 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

March 25, 1966

Life Magazine published a cover article about LSD,
contributing to public hysteria and legislative restrictions.

LSD
The Exploding Threat of the Mind Drug that Got Out of Control

Turmoil in a Capsule
One dose of LSD is enough to set off a
mental riot of vivid colors and insights — or of
terror and convulsions

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The colorless, odorless, tasteless substance called LSD can be made in any college chemistry tab. A black market dose costs only $3 to $5. But that is enough to send a person on a 10-hour "trip"--sometimes into a world of beatific serenity and shimmering insight, sometimes to frenzy and terror. In either case the person who has taken this remarkable drug never sees life quite the same way again.
   
Within the last three years the use of psychedelic (consciousness- expanding) drugs has exploded. No longer just a promising psychological research tool, LSD has been taken up by a large underground cult. Starting in artistic, bohemian and intellectual circles, the cult has now become a dangerous fad on the college campus.

At least one million doses of LSD (which stands for lysergic acid diethylamide) will be taken in the U.S. this year. Hospitals and doctors are suddenly treating scores of panic-stricken young patients who have "taken a trip" on LSD with disastrous psychological effects. Some have been hospitalized for weeks. Now the federal Food and Drug Administration is moving in with new laws which will outlaw LSD's illegal manufacture, sale or transportation. Many states already make mere possession of the drug a crime.

Only last week, former Harvard Psychologist Timothy Leary, a long-time user of and proselytizer for LSD, was sentenced to a 30-year prison term for smuggling marijuana and was pointedly held for psychiatric tests. The government crack-down has already cut heavily into legitimate research on LSD, but declaring it illegal may only make it more tempting to thrill-seekers who take it for kicks. At any rate, the genie of LSD, with all its tantalizing possibilities for good and evil, is out in the open.




The complete Life article is available here:
March 25, 1966 Life Magazine Online


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OfflineRun
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Re: This Day In History - March 25, 1966 [Re: veggie]
    #14179494 - 03/24/11 11:45 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

thats amazing, that article it takes me back in those times, where cid was legal and pure as hell.

Man hunter s thompson couldnt have said it better. in those times there was always something going on, at any time. Just being there alive in that point in time :mushroom2:


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You, me, this point in existence is undeniably so unique, we take everything for granite ,life , comprehension, feelings, thought, so accustomed to understanding that we've lost the meaning of fully understanding who we are..... we are the extra terrestrial, we are the unknown, we are the mystical...


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InvisibleLe_Canard
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Re: This Day In History - March 25, 1966 [Re: Run]
    #14179583 - 03/24/11 11:59 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

I missed all that being only 7 months old in March, 1966. But it is an interesting article, Veg. :thumbup:


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