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LSD
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I think, of all the drugs on the black market today, LSD is the most
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interesting and the strangest. It is the most recent major drug to come to
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life in the psychedelic subculture. Huxley experimented with mescaline many
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years before psychedelics reached their mass-market proportions, but this
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experimentation was not with the same frame of mind as these drugs are
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handled today. Probably the great-granddaddy to the whole psychedelic
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community was Antonin Artaud, who personally experimented with peyote in
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Mexico. The difference between Huxley's and Artaud's experimentation was that
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Huxley managed to keep his experiences under laboratory controls, which he set
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up himself, whereas Artaud allowed his experiences to become part of his life.
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Artaud was changed by his encounters with peyote, but is this bad? A dirty
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shirt is also changed when it is washed. Through this change, Artaud was able
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to see and understand ideas and concepts on a different level. He was able to
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tear apart rationalizations, without regard for contemporary methods of
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organization, or even contemporary versions of truth. Artaud found, in his
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own way, his own truth and his own structure of values. They locked him up....
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I died at Rodez under electroshock.
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I died. Legally and medically dead.
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Electroshock coma lasts fifteen minutes. A half an hour or more and
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then the patient breathes.
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Now one hour after the shock, I still had not awakened and had
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stopped breathing. Surprised at my abnormal rigidity, an attendant had gone
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to get the physician in charge, who, after examining me with a stethoscope,
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found no more signs of life in me.
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This passage is taken from The Artaud Anthology, published by City
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Lights Publishers. I find it extremely difficult to throw this off as the
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ravings of a madman for, if that be true, then there can be no truth, only
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madness and sanity, logic and illogic. If one then accepts the acceptable, he
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finds a narrow channel is clear, but the presence of illogic and the so-called
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insanities will always pry and harp in the distance.
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LSD has never caused insanity. It does not have that power. Only man
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can distinguish between sanity and insanity. I have never seen an insane
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bird. Granted there are some individuals who shouldn't take psychedelics, but
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this is, and must be, their choice. All LSD does is allow a man to look upon
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ordinary things, everyday things, and even on himself, many times for the
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first time, with clarity of vision. He can look and not be hampered by false-
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propped values and socially limited scope. He can look upon the world and see
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beauty where it did not exist before. He can perceive the ugliness for the
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first time. He can roar with laughter at the multitude of absurdities
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surrounding him. He can look into himself and see truthfully the mildew and
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the rot.
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LSD cannot bring out latent qualities in your personality. It cannot
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make you into a crazy, just as it cannot make you into a warmer, more
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beautiful person. What LSD can do is show you what you as a person are
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comprised of, and break down truthfully your make-up. LSD is not a religion,
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and I've never found anything really divine about it at all. The real
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religion, if you want to put it in those terms, is the being itself. LSD is
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nothing more than a medium to discover the essence of being.
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LSD, or acid, has been illegal for and last decade or so; therefore
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it is readily available on the black market. When buying anything on the
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black market, there are a couple of things to note, but these are especially
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important with acid.
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[1> Never buy from a stranger, or on the street.
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[2> Never front money.
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[3> If you are holding a large amount of money, do not go anywhere alone with
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someone you do not trust. Many people who have got into dealing pot and
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acid are, in reality, junkies.
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[4> When going to make a deal for dope, do not take a weapon with you. This is
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provoking violence and legal hassles. If you don't trust the guy, then
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don't deal with him.
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[5> Never buy a large quantity of any drug without first sampling it.
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[6> When making a deal for acid and you are at the dealer's apartment, do not
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accept food or drink from him; for the real acid may be in the food rather
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than the cap you sample.
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[7> Bad acid is nothing more than speed, or rat poison.
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[8> A long time ago there was a substance called L.B.J. going around. If you
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happen to come across it, do not buy it. L.B.J. is a mixture of acid,
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belladonna, and heroin. It is the freakiest, worst, most fucked-up trip
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you will ever go on. Belladonna in quantity is a deadly poison.
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[9> About 99 percent of all of what is claimed to be T.H.C. (synthetic pot)
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that is for sale on the street is not really T.H.C. at all. The expense of
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making synthetic pot is said to be about $15 per capsule, and a capsule of
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alleged T.H.C. usually sells on the street for about $3 - $6. Obviously
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the vendors are either philanthropists (not likely) or they are selling
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you something other than T.H.C.
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[10> When buying grass, watch out for damp grass or grass sprayed with sugar,
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as this adds a lot of weight to the dope.
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[11> Another favorite con game is "in the front, out the back". This usually
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occurs when your dealer tells you he is going up to an apartment to get
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your stuff, but you have to front the money, and wait for him on the
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street. You may be waiting a long time.
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[12> Do not attempt to smuggle any drugs across the border from Mexico. The
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federal government has imposed a crackdown and they're busting people
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left and right.
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