LSD, JFK, CIA?

Doug Millison DMillison at ftmg.net
Wed Aug 8 11:29:53 CDT 2001


Paul, I'm simply countering your absurd assertion that use of LSD in the
early 60s was common knowledge.  
You are engaged in your common pattern of rewriting my post, to start an
argument I presume.   The research and recreational use of LSD up to the
mid-60s was not widely known, had not been exposed in the mass media. In
fact, knowledge of LSD was restricted to relatively few people, from a
handful (in the whole world) in the '40s, to a few tens of thousands (in the
whole world) by the mid-60s.  By the time Time magazine puts the hippes and
the Summer of Love on its cover, LSD is part of the U.S. mass media
consciousness, but not before.

I repeat an earlier question:  what other literary novel, in 1966 or before,
of similar stature to COL49, features LSD as prominently as COL49?  




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