LSD, JFK, CIA?

[wood jim]

> Does the Millison's mother?  Don't Lennon, Kennedy,
> and Ram Dass together 
> constitute a small circle of in-the-know hipsters?  



Beginning in 1954 and continuing until 1962, Janiger
conducted his own
        examinations of the effects of LSD. In an
agreement with
        Sandoz Laboratories, which held the patent on
LSD and
        manufactured it, Janiger administered a
monitored dosage of
        Sandoz LSD to roughly 900 subjects, as part of
a naturalistic
        experiment intended to illuminate the
phenomenological
        nature of the LSD experience. Subjects were
chosen to represent a wide demographic
        variety and included housewives, clerical
assistants, a Deputy
        Marshall, attorneys, counselors, engineers,
medical personnel,
        dentists and physicians.

This was published in the public press in 1963. 

Harry Asher volunteered for an early experiment
with LSD, which produces in some subjects symptoms
resembling those of schizophrenia; an account of his
experience was also published in the public press. 

As I stated, but Doug Millson refuses to accept what I
have provided, LSD was not  
unknown to millions by 1965. As I suggested, do a key
word search in a library catalogue (my local library
key word search for LSD from 1950-1965 turns up
thousands of public texts. Under Literature within the
same parameters, it returns, hundreds of  novels,
plays, short stories, poems, 
and also includes scientific and medical texts,
studies, biographies, histories, government documents.


The problem with the conspiracy books, Acid Dreams et
al.,  is  that they need to establish a 
secret formula or an Imipolex of some sort and a
secret society or those who know. This was not the
case with LSD. When we include Pynchon (an American
author of "paranoid" quest or "detective" fiction)  as
one who knows, about JFK/CIA or LSD or whatever, we do
him and ourselves mischief, especially when we are
unmerry with our pranks and cranks and refuse to
acknowledge the absurdity of our conjectures. 
So where does this lead? 

To all sorts of stupid conjecture. 

Pynchon was a smart young boy. He went to college when
he was a kid (like Ted the Unabomber)  at Cornell to
study engineering.  Maybe he was subjected to CIA/ LSD
tests. Pynchon worked for Boeing. 
Myabe he had access to top-secret information. Pynchon
has and had  connections. Pynchon was afraid to write
about what he knew but was compelled to do so. Pynchon
writes in code. Blah Blah. 
Pynchon likes Jazz. He hung around the Village in NYC.
He went to Jazz clubs. LSD was available in Jazz clubs
in the 1950s.  We can go on and on. But the facts are
that Pynchon could have known about LSD, just as
millions of others did, by 1965. I knew about it in
1961 and so did my mother,  although, she wasn't a
housewife, my mother that is, she was a nurse at the
nations largest psychiatric hospital. BTW, my brother
took mushrooms before he took LSD. He smoked a lot of
grass. The U.S. Navy (Pynchon was in the Navy too!) 
proved to be the only place in the world where drugs
were more readily available than in our neighborhood. 
 






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