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If anyone was initiated into the Grateful Dead Family, it would be Karen Horning. Beyond her direct connection to the original LSD chemist, there's documented evidence -- a lengthy trial and incarceration -- to prove the depth of her involvement in the acid scene. Horning was even-tually caught in an undercover sting, arrested while selling an ounce of raw crystal to a single buyer. That's a quarter million hits of acid.

Horning is just one example of the many heavy hitters Jarnow interviewed for Heads. Yet none of the people corroborated the GDF story. Rather than discovering an organized and unified group of LSD mafiosio, Jarnow found just the opposite. "There was no one way that it worked," Jarnow told me. "It was this incredibly fluid, always changing system."

"It was just a bunch of people doing this in kind of loose configuration, informally con-nected in this sort of holistic way," Jarnow said. He described the process as cell-like, with fluid cliques of people moving in and around each other, and around Grateful Dead concerts.

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Mega-doses, or what you might call a thumbprint, were in fact another loose practice. For those with surplus supply, dipping a finger -- a thumb even! -- into a bag of raw crystal was not uncommon. Amazingly, a few dealer cliques were not content with merely eating raw crystal, preferring to snort it instead. "But in terms of a formal [thumbprint] initiation," Jarnow told me, "everybody laughed when I asked about that."

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Northerner said:

Felt great to be confirmed what I always knew but couldn't say out loud without being attacked, that chinacat was a huge fucking liar.

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Maybe not a huge fucking liar, more like a teller of tall tales.. like the thumbprint is real, it just doesn't mean what he said it means.

And who knows.. maybe kids these days do thumbprints as "initiation" (cuz they all read about it online) 

mendocino_beano said:

So just because someone wrote in a book that people laughed when he asked if thumbprint initiations happened, you know China cat was a ‘bullshit artist’?

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mendocino_beano said:

So just because someone wrote in a book that people laughed when he asked if thumbprint initiations happened, you know China cat was a ‘bullshit artist’?

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viraldrome said:

mendocino_beano said:

So just because someone wrote in a book that people laughed when he asked if thumbprint initiations happened, you know China cat was a ‘bullshit artist’?

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He's an outright fucking liar because no amount of LSD lasts for days. I don't have to eat milligrams of powder to know all LSD trips last a standard 8-12 hours and just get more intense. The fact people here still defend it is embarrassing.

Using terms like fluff and needlepoint too, it's cringey at best and disinformation  at worst.

Everything chinacat said was made up, all of it.

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Northerner said:

mendocino_beano said:

So just because someone wrote in a book that people laughed when he asked if thumbprint initiations happened, you know China cat was a ‘bullshit artist’?

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You clearly failed to understand the context. If there was no organization how could there have been an initiation?

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mendocino_beano said:

Northerner said:

mendocino_beano said:

So just because someone wrote in a book that people laughed when he asked if thumbprint initiations happened, you know China cat was a ‘bullshit artist’?

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You clearly failed to understand the context. If there was no organization how could there have been an initiation?

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What are you talking about? Failed to understand the context? The quote form the book means nothing.

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Aiko Aiko said:

Whats funny is the quote talks about cliques, I can def see certain cliques possibly having an initiation of sorts. Just because the person interviewed may not have been involved in such a clique does not prove it did not happen. And couldn't care less if chinacat was making it up or not. The book sounds interesting though.

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mendocino_beano said:

The link doesn’t work

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