LSD, JFK, CIA?

MalignD at aol.com MalignD at aol.com
Thu Aug 9 11:37:17 CDT 2001


<<If in the '30s use of marijuana had in fact been a practice indulged in by 
most people, or had been well understood by most people, the government never 
would have been able to outlaw it -- as had been the case with alcohol.  >>

There was, of course, prohibition.

At any rate, this argument is dodging all over the map.  No one has said 
anything about "indulging" LSD or even whether LSD was "well understood"; 
merely whether it was known about, heard of.  Further, what was or was not 
true about marijuana or alcohol is irrelevant to what is or is not, was or 
was not, true about LSD.

Jim Wood has taken the time to explore and demolish your argument, something 
he needn't have done (and not that it will shut you up), since it was 
patently preposterous in the first place, using as its sample population your 
mother.




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