CoL49 (5) Sidney [Genghis] Cohen

Robin Landseadel robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Tue Jul 7 00:16:18 CDT 2009


On Jul 6, 2009, at 9:42 PM, David Payne wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 (18:35:27 - 0400), Monte (montedavis at verizon.net)  
> wrote:
>
> > The chemical precursors [for LSD] were cheap, the synthesis not  
> difficult, the typical
> > dose 50 to a few hundred *micro*grams, and the authorities slow to  
> catch on.
> > What makes you believe there *needed* to be a whole lot of money  
> or brains
> > beyond what could be conjured by an anarchist miracle?
>
> Alfred Hubbard?

Excellent guess. There's Clare Booth Luce too. But don't forget the  
CIA's effort with MKULTRA and Owsley's early efforts. Somehow, it all  
seems to get blurry at some point.




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