European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 08, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse More and More hippies Are showing up at hospitals after bad trips. She Lay writhing on the Par grass and crying my brains Are leaking out again leaping to her feet she ran stagger ing to a Friend and borrowed a hand Mirror and peered with bulging eyes atthe Streaky image of a slim girl in the half Light. It won t stay buttoned Shes i named. Frantically she brushed a matted curl off her sweaty make up caked forehead and slammed an open hand across he Temple. The Button s too she Whimp ered. It keeps oozing her name was Jane and she came tothe hippie District of the Haight Ash Bury in san Francisco from Minnesota but those who shared her pad did t know much More about had freaked out rolling about on the grass and Stone sidewalk mind was crazed by the dream drug Ltd. Her friends told doctors she had touched the hallucinogenic acid in More than two months yet she was still Ona her thing is a conviction that Shehad a Button Clown Flap on her Temple that refuses to stay shut allowing what Ever reasoning Power she has left to trickle Down her s friends aroused from their own drug induced stupor by her agony took her to Park emergency Hospital on the fringes of the Haight Ashbury. A doctor talked to her reassuringly told her the Flap was nicely buttoned now an advised her to seek treatment in the morning at county run san Francisco general Hospital. Jane did t show at county Hospital the next Day. It she had she probably would have been examined by Cai Agni a psychiatrist who sees an increasing number of psychotic reactions to Ltd and other hippie drugs. Carfagni does t like the drug is a terrible menace he said pausing in the midst of a bus schedule. This is not a very pleasant sight Long wooden benches in a county courtroom turned waiting room dozens of bewildered drug addicts patiently Page 12 by Paul Jeschke up staff writer waited their turn for a few minutes witha staff member of the alcohol and drug abuse screening never got a Chance to talk about their Ltd connected problems. The ended up on a slab in the morgue. The exact numbers Are unknown. Med ical experts say there is no certain method at present to accurately asses whether a person died under the influence of Many cases Are common knowl Edge and the hippies talk about them Insoft voices. Lobert Tupy 32, dug Ltd. It made him feel powerful and so he turned on in Ever increasing doses. In order to be indestructible one Hasto believe one is indestructible Tupy said. He walked across Busy Street against traffic lights and Rode his motor Scooter into a parked car without scratch. Eventually he stepped in front of a freight train to prove his Indes Trust ability. He died a student at the University of Cali fornia wanted to visit his parents who were in Europe. He gulped a sugar cube coated with Ltd and decided the Only Way to Fly was on his own and plunge several stories to his death. The parents of an Oakland calif.,youth have sued or. Timothy Leary the pied Piper of the Ltd set for $600,000.they claimed their son verson Cox 20, jumped out of an apartment window after he attended a Leary lecture and be came convinced Ltd was not dangerous but rather beneficial to human health and Ltd Lyser Gic acid Dieth olamide was discovered in a Swiss Laboratory but it was Leary then a psychology lecture rat Harvard who prompted the alleged advantages of the insights which the dream drug produced. Leary was booted out of Harvard for utilizing students As subjects for Ltd experiments despite warnings from Harvard officials that such experiments were too continued however to advocate use of the drug coined his tune in turn on and drop out chant was thrown out of Mexico for organizing a Community of acid users and formed the International foundation for internal Freedom to and Vance the Ltd cause. Science is interested in the drug forthe uses it May have in the treatment of alcoholism schizophrenia and As again reliever. But Ltd induced behaviour patterns Are remarkable in their similarity to schizophrenia a serious mental disease which involves loss of Contact with the environment and disintegration of the personality. Preliminary results of a Canadia study of Ltd As a part of anti alcoholism treatment indicated the drug May prove 50 per cent More effective than More conventional treatment. An Amer ican study found Ltd an effective aide in relieving terminal cancer patients of their intense pain. More recent Laboratory experiments however raise serious questions about Long term effects of the d r u of the blood of Ltd users revealed Bent misshapen and irregular chromosomes in the White corpuscles. Chromosomes contain the genetic code or key to heredity. In an attempt to determine if the damaged chromosomes affect offspring scientists injected hundreds of pregnant mice with minute quantities of Ltd. The results were of the1 Newborn mice not them selves exposed to Ltd displayed Seri Ous behaviour disorders. More significantly autopsies revealed damaged Flower girl gives Ltd he Back of her hand. Brains in the Young far there Are no recorded cases of human abnormalities resulting fro women taking Ltd during the critical stages of pregnancy. But some scientists fear that the spread of the drug cult could Lead to brain damage in babies. The effect on adults is even More Subtle and difficult to determine. Or. William Mcglothlin a scientist atthe University of California at los an Geles is making perhaps the most Thor Ough study to Date. Mcglothlin who is working with Agrant from the National Institute of health has compiled a list of 1,000 per sons who took Ltd. He Hopes to com plete his study within a year and Ana whatever difference the Ltd May have had on the subject s mental and physical health. He National Institute of health i currently the Only Legal source for the Druk in the United states. It control distribution carefully and will Supply Ltd Only to individuals or projects a pro Fred by the food and drug adminis tra l on. Is critical of the types of studies undertaken with Fra approval. He de cries the cold sterile atmosphere i Laboratory tests Are administered who a in Fri qui Ifor Ltd behaviour patterns Are remarkable in their similarity to schizophrenia. Ivsich involves Joss of Contact Vith the environment and disintegration of the personality belfol1 in Bil Cila hip is i de fal advocates taking the drug with ids or someone you love out in the t of a Forest or in familiar com Ible \ James l. Goddard Fra director however that Leary and his the stars and strikes sunday oct i it 1967 were Are wrong in science wrong Ines and wrong in social response Eddard recently strolled through theft Ashbury District chatting with ies and apparently enjoying the Hedelin sights. Tave you Ever taken Ltd a Beard Ippie asked Goddard. Of i Haven to the doctor , Man i would t have any in a Guy who was responsible for busting people who used it illegally an then used it himself the hippie said. Perhaps the most significant por Tion of Goddard s hippie pilgrimage was a meeting with or. David e. Smith a29-year-old toxicologist who Heads the alcohol and drug abuse screening Unitas san Francisco general Hospital. Smith who is also a founder of the Haight Ashbury free medical clinic argued for a Federal Grant to study is users in their natural habitat. Goddard promised to look into the possibility. There Are no really valid studies taking place in the United states today on the effects of Ltd Smith Federal authorities think they can pass a Law making Ltd illegal an the phenomenon will go away Smith said. Actually the san Francisco scene alone ought to convince them that it in t happening that Way. What we have got to do is attempt to study without recriminations what it is about is that makes it so Smith s clinic has maintained a confidential relationship with its patients despite some pressure from police an state and Federal narcotics agents. When a Well known hippie drug sup plier distributed free samples of sep his newest and most powerful product hippies brought the tablets to Smith to determine if they were drug far More powerful than Ltd created highs which lasted four or five Days Smith found and frequently caused severe convulsions. Sep reaction when treated with atropine com pounds effective in anti Ltd cases Only made the convulsions worse and added serious respiratory hippie underground press worked around the clock to churn out mimeographed warnings against using sep. The warnings worked and sep us quickly dwindled. Confused people Are either help Dor preyed upon Smith said of the hip pies who come to him for treatment of fled psychoses. He sees about 30 patients a week Atman Francisco general and another 20 or so appear for treatment at the free clinic. Most of them complain of perceptual problems Smith said. They see rings around lights or have trouble spacing some of them want to know is my brain damaged Smith said Many of the bad trip complaints treated at the clinic Are based on purely physical the doctor to the hippies is not yet prepared to venture an opinion on whether Ltd and other psychedelic drugs alter the brain chemically or merely change one s Way of looking atthe world. It will be 50 years before we really understand Ltd Smith said. Right now we Are Busy trying to help those who suf or severe emotional problems after a bad trip. The Haight Ashbury area seemingly has attracted every retarded ill adjusted person inthe United states. They re still flocking Here while Many of the original hippies Are Long gone. These maladjusted people Are exactly the ones who should not take Ltd. I realize there1 is a Fine line Between sensitivity creativity and mental illness but Many of these people should not retaking the Smith readily conceded that Man Long time Ltd users appear to have gained valid psychological insights adjust Haven t had any real problems adjusting to several acid Heads claim to have suffered no ill effects. Look Ltd has taught me thing about myself and my society that it would have taken me years to learn another Way said a hippie named Jim said most of the Ltd being peddled now is about 90 per cent Speed jargon for Metherine a powerful stimulant. Some of these kids get so Hung upon the drug they completely externalize on the Pill. They be got to have the Pilland the whole mental experience Means nothing to result Jim said is a group of Ltd alcoholics hippies who will take anything for kicks. Who Are the Ltd users three psychiatrists at the University of Cali fornia medical Center recently studied 20hospitalized Ltd cases. Their average age was 22, the doctor said and All but a few. Also had used other drugs mostly marijuana the psychiatrists drs. John d. Hen Sala Leon j. Epstein and k. H. Blacker said it was difficult to blame Ltd forthe mental illness for which the patients were hospitalized because Many were emotionally ill before taking users the doctors said tended to seek solutions to problems in antisocial or unsocial behaviour were dropouts or escapist had a history of chaotic is photos by Jim Cole sex behaviour and generally did comparatively poor school work. Where do they get their Ltd on a recent morning in Haight Ash Bury three Long haired hippie girl skipped merrily Down the main Street of Hippi Eville holding hands and singing we re off to see the wizard the wonderful wizard of the wizard a Blond youth of about 24,sat at a table in the window of a Haight Ashbury Coffee House. He chatted wit the girls briefly and they walked away. No i did t sell them any acid said the wizard whose nickname comes from the fact that he distributes the product of an Amateur chemist known throughout Bay area hippie circles As own Short for his real name. Ill drop by their pad later the wizard said. This place is loaded with arcs narcotics agents. They know who i am and what i m doing but they also know i m smart enough not to carry the stuff around with Al esd in t quite As easy to manufacture in a basement Laboratory As Man people think officials Point out. It takes a pretty Good amount of equipment and supplies to turn out the estimated 1,250-1,500 doses consumed in the Bay area each week. The profit margin is claim Ltd is being smuggled into the United states from illegal sources in Italy in batches of one kilo Gram each roughly 2.2 pounds. The go ing Price for a kilogram delivered in the u.s., is $10,000.about one Millionth of an ounce of the liquid is All that is needed to Turna sugar cube into an Ltd trip vehicle. Users say the usual dosage is about200-350 micrograms of Ltd. A Little arithmetic reveals that at $5 a cube the going rate the Gross profit would be about $5 million on a kilogram. It s illogical to think that with profit like that at stake the crime Syndi Cate won t move in if it has t Al ready said Smith at his office. You know we re All drug users. The Medicine Cabinet is loaded with the drugs we All need to get through our daily lives. This one May be better than most or it May be worse. It seems Tome that the Best you can say is that we Don t know and that it s pretty obvious Ltd is going to be around for awhile. I Hope we put the time and Effort int finding out. An entire generation May be at a Many Ltd users also take marijuana. This open air pot party was photographed in Amsterdam. The stars and stripes Page 13
