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In article <C45JI4.K5M@news.cso.uiuc.edu> manderso@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (anderson mark david) writes:
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>I remember reading somewhere that the average price for a gallon of
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>pure liquid LSD was $80,000.
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Do you have any source for this? It seems like a ridiculously large
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amount.
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>Sounds good? I'd hate to think what they'd do to you if you were
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>caught with a gallon.
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If caught you could always chug it. :-)
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Speaking of LSD, here is some interesting information from the new 3rd
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edition of the Psychedelics Encyclopedia, which I happened to spot on
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the new book shelf here at UCR's library.
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"LSD is a very curious chemical. When given by injection, it disappears
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rapidly from the blood. It can be observed when tagged with carbon 14
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in all the tissues, particularly the liver, spleen, kidneys and adrenal
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glands. The concentration found in the brain is lower than in any other
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organ - being only about 0.01 percent of the administered dose. Sidney
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Cohen, in The Beyond Within, has estimated that an average dose results
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in only some 3,700,000 molecules of LSD (about 2/100ths of a microgram
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crossing the blood-brain barrier..." (Does this sound reasonable?)
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"The Army engaged in covert "field operations" overseas. A notorious
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example is the torture of James Thornwell, a black American soldier in
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France, who was suspected of having stolen classified documents in 1961.
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We will probably never know the full story on at least nine others,
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refered to as "foreign nationals," whoe were subjected to the Army's LSD
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interrogation project, "Operation THIRD CHANCE."
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Thornwell, then twenty-two, was first exposed to extreme stress, which
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included beatings, solitary confinement, denial of water, food and
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sanitary facilities and steady verbal abuse. After six weeks, he was
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given LSD without his knowledge. The interrogators threatened
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"to extend [his shattered] state indefinitely," according to an Army
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document dug up later, "even to a permanent condition of insanity." In
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the late 1970s, Thornwell sued the US governmnent for $10 million; the
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US House of Representatives approved a compromise settlement of $650,000
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in 1980."
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This is a very interesting book.
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