Focus on LSD and other psychedelics

[Music] this is lsd peyote dmt stp mescaline [Music] psilocybin hashish [Music] and marijuana that's right marijuana is also a psychedelic drug because lsd is so much more potent than the others about 300 times as potent as marijuana about 50 times as potent as stp about 130 times as potent as mescaline because so little is known about lsd let's talk about it first this is the head of a pin magnified 100 times what you see now is 200 micrograms of lsd that's the full dose to send a normal adult on an 8 to 12 hour trip more than enough to do the same for two to four teenagers there are some people who can have an lsd experience with only 25 to 35 micrograms we can barely see that with a naked eye this aspirin tablet it weighs 5 grams i worry to be made only of lsd there would be enough lsd for 165 000 people to take a real mind-bending trip this much lsd would kill 20 people the lethal dose is 15 000 micrograms now that's one millionth of an ounce that's about what a particle of dust weighs hi i'm tommy rowe by now it must be obvious to you as it is to me that lsd is very powerful stuff and that's just what it is stuff it's not good it's not bad it's only a chemical a drug it's been around for about 20 years and people have been trying it for about the last five or six years there's some people who think that lsd is the greatest gift to mankind since tutti frutti ice cream but there are many others who feel that lsd is bad news to the individual and to the world he lives in for us to make our decisions we'll have to listen and understand both sides before we make up our minds while it would be very difficult to find people to tell you how good for your heroine is or speed or barbiturates it's very easy to find people who just can't wait to tell you how great lsd peyote dmt sdp mescaline and of course marijuana is i don't really dig dropping pills but you get the wildest highs on acid but the only way i think the only time i think i've been able to understand myself was on an acid trip then things were really clear i've taken lsd 42 times and it hasn't done me any harm why knock it some of our country's greatest minds draw passage they couldn't all be dummy but everyone says when you drop some acid the whole world becomes clear to you like an open book what if you you thought of it as a great adventure a great experience and you had someone with you for the whole trip i don't believe all that dumb stuff about chromosome damage we would have seen all them deformed babies by now anyway that's basically what one side has to say in favor of lsd now let's hear what the other side has to say then we'll be able to make up our own minds let's hear from young people who've had their reasons for being down on lsd let's also hear from doctors psychologists and other experts who have tried lsd themselves we've had a great deal of experience with lsd and the people who have taken it but the only way the only time i think i've ever been able to understand myself was on an acid trip then things are really clear as a psychologist i have to tell you that the understanding you think you have gained just doesn't fit in with the facts here are the facts you've been on a number of trips and we're both agreed that you're having even more problems with your school your parents and even your friends perhaps what you think or feel on a trip just doesn't fit in with a straight world which you must return to and must learn to live in as far as understanding yourself is concerned the only real understanding you could gain would come from having a bummer and then analyzing it which would mean you'd have to want to try to have bummers and then attempt to understand them the way that psychologists analyze dreams which unless you are properly trained you cannot do by yourself [Music] i don't really dig dropping pills but you get the wildest trip on acid yeah but you can also get the wildest bummers and you can never really be sure which it's going to be but what do you mean nobody ever knows enough about the quality of the asset itself for your own hidden hang-ups that would make it to be a real trip for a real bummer yeah but you've dropped acid my third trip was a real bummer enough to make me not to want to go on a four what if you were really cool when you did it this setting's just right you're not uptight or paranoid about getting busted [Applause] what if you think of it as a great adventure a great experience and you have someone with you through the whole trip someone straight who hasn't had any acid well it could be a great experience and a great adventure if if you're really in the right frame of mind if you're sure about the dose in the cab if you could be absolutely certain there wouldn't be chromosome damage if you won't feel guilty about what your parents would think and if you're sure you couldn't get busted because it is against the law but how can you be sure that for the 8 to 16 hours the trip will take that your straight friend your babysitter will be reliable will stay with you and be able to handle any problems you might get into and not have a contact trip recurrence of his own just from watching you on yours lots of luck why not get some of our country's greatest minds drop after they couldn't all be dummy who for example who's one of these great minds um [Music] you don't understand i keep explaining it but you don't understand lsd or masculine even if you just let it happen wow you find you can really love your fellow man even when you come down you can really love your fellow man no i don't agree with you i mean what kind of a person are you if you can only love your fellow man if you're taking drugs but lsd and masculine open your mind your feelings they make you feel you can just about love everybody but i always hear that laurie i mean i think kids would take a lot of acid let's have some really big hang-ups how can they be capable of loving anyone gee lori it's easy to say you love everybody but it's very hard to find just one person to love who says you can't love one person when you're on acid what is there to stop you i say you can't i mean it takes over 10 hours for an lsd trip right right so the kids that are involved in lsd don't have time for anything but themselves they don't have time for anybody whether it be just one person or everyone in their lives you guys are just not with it you belong back in the dark ages with the cavemen how do you expect to get on this world if you don't keep up with what's going on know what's wrong with the whole world but everyone says when you drop some acid the whole world becomes clear to you like an open book i've got news for you it would take more than lsd for me to understand what's wrong with the whole world or even our local politics honey you may think that you know things when you're up but you can't really know any more than you already knew before you took the lsd you may have feelings with lsd about what you know feelings you've never felt before but you could never know what you haven't learned evelyn i've been trying to tell you something but you never give me a chance i'm listening why don't you tell me what you're gonna say i've been thinking we should try smash it i hear it's a real cool trick sure sure and so is cocaine but where are we gonna find that kind of money besides if anyone finds out we'll be in a lot of trouble man like cocaine is a hard drug i'm talking about acid dummy lsp not cocaine don't tell me about acid i know too many kids around here that they tell me that they've been on bad trips on lsd they saw rats roaches in different sizes shapes and colors it was like a nightmare that stuff ain't for me no way [Music] so mrs andrade isn't it true that everybody's being uptight about those freaky chromosomes isn't it true that most scientists don't agree on chromosome breakage besides does it matter as long as i don't drop any acid while i'm pregnant if lsd won't kill my chromosomes the pollution in the air and water will so what's the difference the difference is we're talking about two different things we know that if we don't take lsd we won't damage your chromosomes all scientists know that it's too soon to know exactly what the damage will be especially to your children and your children's children but water and air pollution are killing us anyway well that could be but i don't agree that we should just sit back swallow some acid and say well man collision is going to kill us anyway this time the whole country is worried about pollution and things are being done about it all the time how much are we doing about it if all we do is complain and swallow a drug not much better than bad people doing bad things about our water and air this world's in bad shape but it's the world that your generation is going to have to run in the next 10 to 30 years so what kind of preparation is lsd stp dmt piote mescaline or marijuana for what you're going to have to do to straighten it out oh come on mescaline is a natural drug what could be wrong with someone this natural it's made out of cactus buttons or mushrooms or is that peyote well however it's made it's natural and you don't get chromosome damage from something that's natural maybe you don't get chromosome damage from masculine are you sure there aren't any other kinds of damages like through a mental hang-up oh paula it never hurts the indians and they use it for thousands of years in their religious ceremonies sure i know but for how many ceremonies a year how many times a week and were their minds and bodies fully developed or were they still kids teenagers and do you know whether they would wander all over the place where they could get hurt or just sit there safe and stoned in their tvs and i'm sure they didn't have to cross 42nd street and broadway or sunset and vine when they were stoned well of course not you know they led very simple lives that's the point it's much easier for one of us to develop a hang up on a drug like mescaline like it can become a crutch there are too many people who just can't hack living in our very big and mixed up life you know a drug doesn't have to do damage to your chromosomes to do damage to you oh that's an old argument do you need a new one well you've seen two sides of the lsd psychedelic question but if you really think of it there's been about 20 sides to the question and we've had a chance to hear that many people speak their minds while it's possible that some things were left out we did hear from the most important and most strongly felt opinions about lsd now it's your turn now you have to decide based on what you have learned and what you already knew one is it worth the risk to your mind and body to draw passage for kicks or knowledge about yourself and the world you live in two are you sure you're the kind of person who will not get hung up on acid or won't go into other drugs and three can any of your personal problems be solved by lsd and last and not least will your dropping acid or other drugs do anything for anyone else in the world will it do anything for all those people lsd is supposed to make you love your fellow man you decide [Music] [Music] [Music] you