On This Day (LSD discovery--NSA flags everywhere)

Craig Clark CLARK at SHEPFS2.UND.AC.ZA
Thu Apr 17 08:53:56 CDT 1997


Bill LeClere <leek at nfis.com> writes:

> I was under the impression through a piece I read years 
> ago that AH had spilled a tad of the stuff on himself, noted a mild 
> exhiliration,(sp) and then decided to inject a *mere* 100mcg (micrograms) 
> to see what would happen.  He figgered that an amount that miniscule 
> would have almost no effect.
>
> hehehehe.
> 
> My memory is fairly faulty (no thanks to Dr. Hoffman), 
> but as I recall, the article in question was written by same.  Perhaps an 
> excerpt fr _LSD-Problem Child_.....

Or possibly an interview he gave with OMNI back in the 1980s. I 
recall reading the same story there.

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
 the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
 on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"



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