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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ryan-grim/read-the-never-before-pub_b_227887.html>>>
>>>Funny I'm not suprised though...ha
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>>Fascinating article. As I've mentioned here before, when Aldous Huxley was dying, he had Laura give him a send off of Sandoz LSD. Because of clowns like Leary, psychotropics got lumped in with "drugs" - as if there were any relationship between lizard-brain chemicals like opiates or coca alkoloids and sacramentals like LSD or the even more interesting psilocybin. Not everyone who racked up frequent-flier was a blissed out runaway in the Haight watching the pretty colors while the walls melted. There could have been so much more, but cultural taboos and fear brought down the wrath of those who confused the customs of their tribe with the laws of nature.
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>>But you can't put the genie back in the bottle ...
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>So true. I'd not heard that Huxley had a send of of Sandoz... Sandoz halted LSD production in August 1965 so it's not too often you actually run across it ..hahaha...but hey it *does* happen from time to time ( like this vile from 2006
http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_article2.shtml ), Anyway yeah it's for sure one of those 'cant put the genie back in the bottle' type of things....
Huxley died in 1963 ( actually the same day jfk was shot). Legal and available.
In the SF area Owsley carried on ... and there was a lot of stockpiling.
Stanford and Berkeley turned out amazing chemists on a pretty regular basis. Of course a lot of them shifted to MMDA by the mid 70s ( disco disco <g> ) for those who sought physical rather than spiritual Ecstasy <s>
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- Thomas Hardy
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