European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 1, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Than to sell better thinking through r s h v f Iti the 1960s As Hollywood Glamour had the Sunset strip so named because be stretch is an unincorporated strip Angeles county became he locale for sometimes massive gatherings of Long against what they did not like about plunging into the drug up dissolved because of pressure who persuaded the police to break and because Young people found new ways the strip then slowly began to develop a kit Ltd As Rock music became a Rich Ita of companies and agents connected Luv Many up Adalize the record bust Tolj juy with its own and cocaine is Dow its most i drug buying a Beach Home in where Nell Diamond and other ail even had often next door to the us Days for those who can afford it toed Mercedes limousines and Vintage to dyes Are particularly popular even it to rather than St local Center of the Roc music scene on strip two the Roxy and to toe most coveted items in the business is a it private dub atop the called on the b was established by Lou Adler who made a records and who now runs it More or a anointing whom he wants for admin a top of the there according to know the local music about 50 such As Are record fitly they Are achievers in the business who n interest in music and a life hard to define who gets admitted to the old one knowledgeable person who is part of it has to do with but some Are successful in talc Are not part of Tover would never be admitted and Peter while he is very has never Greg Galnan is not a Irwi have some people who Arent in the bust Jack Nicholson and Warren who in of Kres a Queen of the its Linda Bons Ai if theres a its emmy Lou Wlben there in from new Paul Simon Taylor would be members of he by Simon would be a Neil Dia i a even though his music is More so b Ringo record executives worry these Days about Cutty of finding major new about de the of some of their customers Luro and a Federal grand jury that u i Hunting alleged antitrust activity in the in Fer successful people in the the b is Sunset strip is still a and a lot of will Stu come Here in Hopes of seeing on a 1977 by Richard Saltus aug Cutty press when the words we rent Balzac drank Coffee 50 cups a Scott Fitzgerald turned to the and Ridge woke from in opium dream to write one of his finest better thinking through chemistry is an old but sent Loti May be on the Edge of a new Era with the Prospect fusing finely tuned drugs to improve met Ray attention and perhaps even drugs that buoy a depressed Dampen the dras tic ups and Downs of manic depressive Calm lety and keep schizophrenics anchored in reality Are routinely like these min changing the new learning and memory substances called Europe Plaes further evidence of the intimate link Between mental states and the Rise and fall of chemicals in the f Arnold Mandell a leading investigator of psycho Tropic suggests that psychiatrists Are All trying to get the mind and the brain Back together the mind ran off with the analysts and the brain ran off with the biological researchers and what in seeing now is everyone trying to refuse the excitement Over possible uses for the new Chemis try of thinking runs High in labs in the and we have menial filled with people who have memory says Max Fink of the state University of new and 100 per cent of population develops memory difficulty at age55 or a few years earlier or if we could develop 1 c aliens a drug that made tones sound much lower to he user than they actually r pianist  play because the sounds he heard voice sounded like a compound that prevent Ihli memory it would be a tremendous Boom to experiments with animals have shown significant improvement through the drugs in learning a certain task and Fink says human tests have not clearly shown that the drugs Are an Experiment Ullh 20 traded patients reported last year snowed that an injection of a Neur peptide fragment of the hormone act increased their ability to pay attention to a visual Active v act is one of the chemical messengers produced by the pituitary gland that Hanga at the base of the until it was thought that act and other pituitary hormones had Only one function to stimulate other such As the to secrete their the discovery that they alter thinking and behaviour As Well was unexpected and opens a whole new Field of Testa in which a single dose of a peptide Chain of act molecules called act 412 Given to elderly people showed some Small but not Vety significant changes in saw new studies Are underway using a More potent form of the if the Neur peptides can increase attention in one might think they could help hyperactive who Are so jumpy and distracted that learning a a frustrating Happy but a recent study using act 412 on n group of hyperactive children showed no improvement in their ability to pay attention or says Janet Rappaport of the National Institute of mental Abba Kastin of the veterans administration Hospital in new Orleans did Many of the Early experiments with he says he is encouraged even though the results in people been in dramatic or 1 feel they have a lot to although there May not be any great breakthroughs in the next two he the chemical Road to that elusive creative it being followed More a Nelly and leu with their goals so Bard to describe in scientific terns ant Utler drugs the Al Una tuition Are leery of talking too one of them is Alexander a physical chemist who lives outside san where he plays the and grows his own wine described by a colleague As a gentleman Shulgon is a sort of freelance drug designer for the government and pharmaceutical a has tinkered with drugs related to mescaline and other hallucinogens from the wild 1960ef As he until their mind distorting effects Are nearly whats loft is a series of compounds said to Haw various interesting in some cases they enrich the flow of Shulgon hesitates to talk much about his but be has mentioned one of his curious if not very useful Ere Buo Hejl a longtime investigator of the biochemical nature of various mental states and de scribed a test of a Shulgon drug done some the Experiment involved College students who wrote Compo Smora Amer taking a Placebo inactive an Arn Pheu on the Wrout Tim or Toet uld on the amphetamine they eight or 10 but it was Boring Aad on the  Cortum Brivkey wrote eight Drill Mandell b testing some similar compounds in animals at the University of san where he is co of of White declining to be indicated that he and other scientists Are Culet by continuing work on the chemistry of Oscar a los Angeles psychiatrist who has studied he Art resulting from drug induced has proposed that a collection of paintings made under the in fluence of Ltd be Analysed for their artistic As part of a Large clinical Ltd study done by Jan Ger and others Between 195ft and about m artists painted pictures of an Indian Kachina doll took the Hallucinogen and did another Janiver scorns any simplistic idea of a drug unlocking creativity but Points to one example where theart Lofs first Effort was but under Ltd he painted a More abstract and unusual definitions of creativity but Jan Ger Speaks of artists reaching outside of conventional frames of refer ence to achieve novel other scientists also stress the artists tourney away from the usual goals and perceptions of the everyday in explaining How Ehu Llna drugs appear to says the same thing in biochemical he suggests that there is a chemical system in the brain that dulls a persons reactions to signals that occur they Are stimuli from outsider ones internal the drugs Block that which Mandell believes la responsible for boredom and stale and things appear to Glisten with you know very Well that if Yon went into prob Lem that you knew like the Back of your youd get bored with it Yon look at it and there Are no More i Hujus to think about be ii Yon were to come it As too Fri youd never Stem it before then new Start to Man dells rats do not paint picture or write but under the influence of drugs icy do show what Man Dell Calls perceptual if a Bell rings re the rat jumps every time he Doest become dulled by it in a More complicated he people could use the drug to become defenceless to an explosion of new thoughts and you cant not he for these chemicals Are unproven and experimental Mandelt worries about what would happen if they became widely i still dont know if they All ought to be used just for research and then locked he there Are dangers in the chemical world no than in the atomic tinkering with the brain in this Way might be oui w the Long and Mandell is bothered by of who would get the drugs and who would is Lack of creativity a defect that you should or Are there just going to a some people who Are creative and some who Arent the psychiatrist also believes there Are other ways to reach creative or his own Lon distance Man dells other after 17 years of working with min altering is that in the same Way Long use of amphetamines can cause a into de creativity drugs eventually could push the user into a stale where be is duller than the thing that militates against a chronic drug regime la that your enormous and exquisite ways to wipe out what youre trying to do to the stars and stripes Page 15