Good drugs/Bad drugs?

[Gillies, Lindsay]

>>Don Larsson said:
>But, in GR at least, there does seem to be a hierarchy of drugs.  LSD is
>associated through the rye-rot, ergot, with the death culture of Europe.
>It is another processed manipulation of nature akin to the coal-tar
>derivatives that mark industrial modernism.  On the other hand, "natural"
>drugs--marijuana, peyote, mushrooms (even nutmeg!) come off as better.
>See Osbie Feel for more.

Yeah, there's definitely a distinction drawn between organically-induced 
trancendence and synthetic/material-induced.  At the beginning of GR, the 
monkeys come down out of their trees and guzzle their communal meal of 
bananas (right from their own local jungle) and Osbie's mushrooms.  Benny 
Profane, on the other hand, can't connect with or avoid objects, even back 
in V there's a sense of some possibly malevolent will on the part of 
objects, and their potential for moving us elsewhere (if not up at least 
around).  This reaches apotheosis in the (pseudo?) mystical launch of the 
human rocket near the end of GR.

What connects these two, I guess, and what relates LSD to mescaline is 
Structure.  Even among the bananas and mushrooms, it is the intricate 
Structure of the olefactory agent that (as never so clearly before) tells 
Death to fuck off.  Natch, a huge subject for denizens here, this Structure. 
 But perhaps it's the connection between the "natural" and the synthetic 
that moves TRP's discourse beyond a simple dichotomy...