LSD, JFK, CIA?

[wood jim]

--- Doug Millison <DMillison at ftmg.net> wrote:
> 
> Where Pynchon got his information about LSD is
> largely irrelevant to reading
> COL49, isn't it?  He may have had friends in the
> East and West coast
> artistic community that in the early '60s was
> experiementing with LSD,
> thanks to people like Tim Leary and Alan Ginsberg
> who were turning on their
> friends. Or, maybe somebody told him about
> scientific research into LSD, or
> maybe he happened upon a reference to it
> serendipitously in his library
> research.  He certainly wasn't getting his
> information from the mass media,
> which largely ignored LSD as a subject of consistent
> coverage until after
> COL49 was published.  By the mid-60s, some
> scientists had published papers
> about their LSD research, there had been a few
> conferences, it wasn't secret
> (except for the CIA and military research, of
> course) -- but it wasn't
> common knowledge outside that restricted circle, LSD
> was in no way a
> household word, and it's still not.

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> demonstrates that more than a relative handful of
> people in the U.S. (a
> fraction of a percent, at a most generous estimate)
> ever heard of LSD at
> that time, 

This is just a silly claim. It's not true. 

When my father told us that our brother was dead he 
said (and I will never forget the exact words)

"Your brother filipped on LSD and is dead." 

That was 1961. We knew what LSD was. 

My brother was not the only casuality of LSD. 
There were many. If you have a history of mental
illness in your family (Schizophrenia or Bi-Polar
Affective Disorder or Manic Depression) be very
careful. Of course, if you want my opinion, I 
wouldn't take drugs at all if I were you. But what do 
I know? 

I'm only Jim 





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