COL49 - Chap 1: Oedipa says no to drugs

[Bekah]

The Sandoz patents for making LSD expired  in 1963 making way for  
lots of unhindered  illegal production.   Owsley started  
experimenting with production in Berkeley around 1963.  (And moved to  
LA between 1964 - 1965? - very interesting - IH? although I think IH  
takes place a bit later.) Anyway,  many doctors and scientists still  
had quite a lot of their old  Sandoz supply as it wasn't called in  
until 1966,  around the time of the Senate Hearings.   George Hunter  
White's SF based testing and distribution center closed that year,  
too.  (This was supposed to be testing for the military but White  
used it for his own stuff, too.)

I understand that the acid on the streets is different today - mostly  
methamphetamine with only the slightest dash of LSD (if any).

Bekah



On May 10, 2009, at 12:16 AM, rich wrote:

> i guess it comes down to what comes after some sort of enlightenment,
> the Buddha's 50th day so to speak
> that law of dependent origination (one of the few things I learned at
> college that was worth remembering) is the first to go not long after
> for most of us
>
> and then you're listening to endless descriptions of said acid trips
> from beautiful strangers in too many bars to count in Boulder,
> Portland, Montpeiler, Austin, Madison--kinda funny but a little sad
>
> the gates to something were open once...
> rich
>
> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>  
> wrote:
>>
>> I suggest TRP might be suggesting that the spreading fad of LSD is  
>> another inside-the-tower
>> way of falsely thinking one is 'finding the bridge inward"..