00:00:07.020 - 00:00:26.800

these are brain cells. The exact effect of psychedelic drugs on these and other cells in the human body are not known. LSD considered by many. A psychedelic or mind expanding drugs may have a place in our society. LSD or acid as well as other mind expanding

00:00:26.800 - 00:01:16.100

drugs has its place in the laboratory and someday might when proven to be beneficial serve society at the moment. The only predictable thing about LSD is its unpredictability. Yeah. Mm hmm. It is. Mhm, mm hmm, mm hmm, mm hmm. Mhm. How

00:01:16.210 - 00:01:29.370

far out you are no longer in touch. And really the world is exactly as it is. They are the people who live in this world make the world you can't change it by going too far out trip. You can't change the world by sitting here and

00:01:29.370 - 00:01:44.010

going and and swallowing a bunch of pills, smoking a bunch of something God knows whatever else it may be that you do. You cannot change. You will really make it worse because you are not taking any positive action and to have positive action. You have to

00:01:44.020 - 00:01:55.600

be in command of your mind and your body. And if you take something that makes your mind kind of fuzzy, You're not in command in your body. So you can't you can't join that. You can think a lot of things. Sure. Because I couldn't sit on

00:01:55.600 - 00:02:10.120

top of the mountain for the next 10 years of my life and I have a note. You want to be do you want to contemplate what do you want to do? I don't think we should accept the example that society has shown us with Carlos of

00:02:10.130 - 00:02:26.400

people consuming alcoholic beverages day after day two drinks before work for to face your wife kind of example is brought to us and they're condoning this, but they won't come back at us. They come back at us, pardon me with the use of psychedelic drugs as

00:02:26.520 - 00:02:41.270

as being wrong. Their attitude if you're abusing drugs, if they want to talk about abusing drugs, why don't they go upstairs to the medicine cabinet and start right there with the little pills that you find lyle dup. I mean, this is completely a poor excuse for

00:02:41.270 - 00:03:02.430

people to look down on what you are witnessing is not new. It's a generation gap. The typical lack of communication and understanding on the part of parents that kids have complained about for years. The gap in this instance is caused by the illegal hallucinogenic drug LSD.

00:03:02.940 - 00:03:18.980

The illegality of the drug is not the basis for separation between parent and child. But the question of why the need for it exists is in yourself. You're just bringing up certain people who are blowing their minds on LSD and take it for granted that you

00:03:18.980 - 00:03:34.640

go on LSD and say, we all do and how to make this conversation isn't LSD or who is taking LSD. It's a point of why do people take LSD? What are you really contributing to society by taking LSD? You're contributing something to yourself because you're seeing

00:03:34.640 - 00:03:53.110

something for yourself. Yes. But after they have made an awful lot of bums out of an awful lot of people. No one can relate to LSD unless he's tried it. Dr. Alan Cohen and Hank Harrison have tried it nearly 150 times between them. Each has turned

00:03:53.110 - 00:04:14.250

away from it. Dr. Cohen is a clinical psychologist in the counseling center at the University of California in Berkeley. Hank Harrison directs the unique LSD rescue mission in san Francisco. Kids with the new quest going on coming into the Haight Ashbury are actually seeking an adventure.

00:04:14.940 - 00:04:32.290

So, an LSD is part of this adventure for them. The tragedy is that it's not always a pleasant adventure. And it has now that we've looked back on some of our statistics, I've seen people spend many months in mental institutions because now that's not of course

00:04:32.800 - 00:04:51.900

the most common, the most common kind of experience that we find is the the drunken experience. It's a trip. It feels good, but it goes away and the promise that they've heard about LSD does not come through. We have to realize that the instinct in many

00:04:51.900 - 00:05:16.420

cases towards the use of psychedelic drugs is perhaps one of the most healthy ones are. People can have. I firmly believe that LSD subverts that instinct and destroys the individual's capability to grow in the way he wants to. I think our task is to separate the

00:05:16.420 - 00:05:42.790

profundity of the instinct in the ignorance in trying to actualize that instinct by the use of artificial chemicals in all honesty, I could never advise someone I loved or cared for or felt well of to take LSD even once, except in a medically controlled therapeutic situation

00:05:42.790 - 00:06:35.850

for specific psychological reasons. And I say that even though I was once very much involved in the LSD movement, convinced that it was the way, well it isn't the way to the hippie youth of today. This is part of their real world.

00:06:36.350 - 00:07:55.830

This is the atmosphere of the moderate pop festival. The music is frantic, the sounds are wild and the mind is free after the festival. Most of these youths came to rest here san Francisco's Haight Ashbury District. They came here seeking fun, freedom and excitement. They

00:07:55.830 - 00:08:14.160

found venereal disease, infectious hepatitis pneumonia and LSD Dr Cohen and Hank Harrison have tried to expand their minds through the use of LSD and now know that not even these kids educated or not will be able to achieve a true higher consciousness through the use of

00:08:14.160 - 00:08:31.810

drugs. Here's where acid starts to come in and get an environment of perceived sterility at home. Hypocritical values as seen by the kids and they say, well what do, what do we have? That's ours? And one of the answers has been, well, our generation has grasses,

00:08:31.810 - 00:08:47.170

marijuana and LSD and music and music our music and our drugs and you don't like it and society doesn't like it. And we're going to keep it. We don't want the martinis. The one way to hurt mom and dad more than anywhere else in the world

00:08:47.170 - 00:08:59.520

is to let them know that you've taken LSD. It's like a husband who's unfaithful to his wife. He find he lets her find out to hurt her. And I find kids doing this a lot. We get calls all the time from parents who are very upset

00:08:59.520 - 00:09:11.970

that their Children have taken LSD and when they call us, we find out that they found out through their Children and their Children let them know, try to turn them on or something. Uh, this is a hostile thing and I don't find a lot of love

00:09:11.980 - 00:09:49.000

there and then there's this fantastic uh syndrome of the believability of opposites. Such as if any bad guy of the establishment parent teacher. Official government person says LSD is bad for you. The immediate assumption. Many of the teenagers must be good. Mm

00:09:49.000 - 00:10:08.190

hmm. Our fear of their use of drugs and their sometimes reluctance to bathe often clouds our view of the wider significance of what this subculture is attempting. They have refused to subscribe to the prevailing values, goals and morals of their middle class parents. They are intent

00:10:08.200 - 00:10:29.930

on doing what they feel. We only talk about doing, respecting the individual, freedom of others seeking and perfecting such ideals as tolerance. Brotherhood, love and cooperative ventures, pot is here and speed is here and acid is here the symptoms, if not the cause of a far

00:10:29.930 - 00:10:52.940

more deeply rooted set of social circumstances, The seekers of the psychedelic world of pot acid yoga and hopefully truth are not the downtrodden of our society in the bay Area. They come from pacific heights in Piedmont as well as the mission in West Oakland. Many of

00:10:52.940 - 00:11:08.750

the younger seekers run away from society by running away from home. Their parents don't understand, first of all, How do you mean? But their parents, you know, like they want long hair and their parents say, no, you're gonna be like every other time dick and harry,

00:11:09.040 - 00:11:23.150

but mother, I don't feel that way and they don't understand. So they're being cruel door. So that's why they leave home. They want to go somewhere where they understood and the hippies understand and the parents don't. Your parents don't, they just don't understand you. They don't

00:11:23.150 - 00:11:40.710

have an open mind like hippies do well, it's not like that with most parents. Well in Mexico, most of the american hippies down there at least tonight, my crowd, their parents don't say you're going to be, they don't give good reasons for things. They just say,

00:11:40.710 - 00:12:02.060

no, you don't, they're not understanding. You know, they don't understand anything. They're real strict. How do drugs fit into this whole scene? Drugs are viewing it from what we've been talking about. Well, talking from a it's a secondhand account. It's it is essential to the scene.

00:12:02.940 - 00:12:27.050

All my friends say that. Yes. Well, I don't know, it's it is a basic part because people with this is so intensified like grass. Grass is a morale builder. I think it makes you feel happy and laughed a lot. But grass can be channeled. The effects

00:12:27.050 - 00:12:47.050

can be useful, tremendously useful. I mean you can become a, I don't know, stabilized, being self confident and my friend and it's just, it's fun. I think my friends told me, you know, like them, they're on acid or something. They go driving down the freeway and

00:12:47.050 - 00:13:08.060

all the lights are so pretty. It changes everything. It makes, it makes it makes everything you can never feel out of place anywhere. Sure makes people look funny too. What do you think? The main reasons are for kids, not necessarily on summer vacations, but for dropping

00:13:08.060 - 00:13:22.620

out of high school. A cinch running away. Although it's not a good word. What are the main reasons why we have no freedom of mind or anything? You know, to think what we want to think. We have to learn something that they learned back in 1932

00:13:22.620 - 00:13:48.050

or something from an old textbook? You know, it doesn't help us any, what are the role of parents in terms of making people or encouraging them in a sense to run away. Okay. Um, I don't know, parents. I don't know, they they smother you, they tell

00:13:48.050 - 00:14:06.250

you you've grown up one minute and then they say you're not, you know, like go to school and be like everybody else and then um they tell you to be different, you know, they just, is it tough to kind of get along with him in terms

00:14:06.250 - 00:14:23.330

of discipline and stuff like that and a constant source of irritation you think to the, the runaways? Yes, it is real because like my parents, I can play them against each other and get what I want and then, um, yeah, parents shouldn't be like that. They

00:14:23.330 - 00:14:43.700

should, you know, just say one thing or not do it at all. Is there any social pressure now, particularly high school kids to turn on um what, you know, high school kids that do turn on, they brag about it. Yeah, a lot come along and say,

00:14:43.700 - 00:15:01.770

well man, I dropped acid and all of a sudden there busted because what they did, there was sort of one upsmanship, I've had 100 trips. That's something they basis kids like high school kids based upon. I've done this more than you. Well, you know, don't talk

00:15:01.770 - 00:15:36.620

to me, this individual is actually experiencing the effects of LSD, she's on a trip that may last for eight hours. What you're watching and hearing is one of the end results of the impact of LSD on the human mind. Hope is to be fortified by courage,

00:15:36.630 - 00:15:56.950

which can accept failure with equality and as um harnessed by wisdom, which knows now to wait The fruit of action with patients, idealistic dreams of the future are balanced by a sense of actualities of the present and the glow of love allows itself to be illuminated

00:15:56.960 - 00:16:41.000

by the free and pampered play of reason. Desire for nothing except desire, Desire, homelessness, hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes want for nothing And you won't have everything. Mm hmm. What's it mean? Yeah. What does that mean? Yeah. To desire nothing. Mhm This

00:16:41.000 - 00:16:57.300

is something that you want to, this is like reading and having an experience at the same time. You can't, you know, read from something like this. But I could read a normal magazine. Yeah. Like reading this book is, you know, I mean like that's really where

00:16:57.300 - 00:17:16.420

it's at. I mean that's what's happening to me now. Well, everything that you look at is like um in depth and it looks, you know, I mean, I go through different periods of like touching something and I can feel it completely Or just looking at something.

00:17:16.430 - 00:17:42.480

Sometimes it will be completely flat. And then like in certain parts of your high, everything pulsates. Mhm But it reacts to you really because LSD is such an individual thing. Whatever you know, right? I mean, whatever you're experiencing, it's like what's happening around you. Mm hmm.

00:17:43.660 - 00:18:05.430

I mean it's so individual that if it comes from within yourself, it's not the people that make it good or bad. It's the kind of vibrations that you yourself sort of send off I did. It's like being enlightened. I mean it's so beautiful. I took it

00:18:05.430 - 00:18:28.870

one time when I was in Yosemite and it started raining and it was warm and I was in a meadow and it was so beautiful. They were just rainbows all over the place. I it was like being aware, it's like looking through a dirty window that

00:18:28.870 - 00:18:52.890

just got washed. Many of the kids that are now consuming LSD and marijuana and various other drugs are doing so because they tend to be seeking a new mystique. The hip mystique and they've heard about this hip mystique through television, radio, newspapers and they're being drawn

00:18:52.890 - 00:19:08.310

towards the Haight Ashbury and Greenwich Village and college campuses all around the country to try LSD in various of their drugs, mainly because of group pressure, but also because they feel that there is going to do something that's going to happen to them. Some of the

00:19:08.420 - 00:19:27.940

misery that they may feel is going to be alleviated. This is not true. LSD is not a panacea nor is penicillin. The new culture represents an entirely new way of life. It says words like love and that touches the heartstrings of many young people and many

00:19:27.940 - 00:19:45.770

older people who have missed it, missed expressing it and feeling it LSD and other psychedelic drugs have been associated with this search with this quest for love in the old days. It was said that LSD gave you love, It gave you a glimpse of that reality,

00:19:46.340 - 00:20:07.840

which society lacked. Mayor baba quoted a great Persian poet who said, alas, alas, I pity those who compare a glass bead with a pearl and this is what's happening. I think the LSD experience transient an artificial, though profound and dramatic, is being taken for the real

00:20:07.840 - 00:20:29.410

thing. Perhaps one of the most dangerous things about LSD is that it can lead a person to thinking he knows everything and no one can teach him. And when you stop learning, you stop growing. I think I think if people will be so narrow minded as

00:20:29.410 - 00:20:45.720

to not to accept the reasoning that we're trying to present them about our use of psychedelic drugs and that's all I'd like to say to them is that LSD is fun and we enjoy LSD so therefore we enjoy, I would like to experience something tomorrow and

00:20:45.720 - 00:21:02.230

the day after that. And you're not going to go on LSD and all of a sudden now you're going to know that, you know, to a certain degree, you have spoiled, you have expanded your mind to the point where you are that much more. That you

00:21:02.230 - 00:21:15.810

know, that's that's that much more than you know, Would you rather see a person in Ophelia sitting in a corner, 22 years old already an old man. But I think if you people keep on doing what you're doing, you're going to be sitting in a corner,

00:21:15.820 - 00:21:31.260

40 years old and you're not even going to know what's going on. If somebody is going to be going on for you, because you just won't be able to make it to dr Arthur Carpani, who heads up the impact plan at san Francisco General Hospital, The

00:21:31.260 - 00:21:50.640

isolated outstretched hands are not enough. Well, to date our business, you want to call it. That has shot up to a terrific amount. For instance, yesterday, approximately 14 people were brought into the hospital for adverse reactions due to directly attributable to drugs. So I would say

00:21:50.640 - 00:22:07.720

that this has really increased the amount of dealings we have with the under 22 23 year old age group tremendously. It's a very rather mixed thing for some, it's the beginning of a long term psychotic process for other, it's one more adverse reaction which possibly will

00:22:07.720 - 00:22:20.920

terminate within 48 hours. But certainly any type of psychotic reaction is something that's going to leave scars in the person's development. It's a dangerous thing. It's certainly, if you want to put it on a physical term, it's quite a public health menace as far as we

00:22:20.920 - 00:22:38.450

see it recently, we've begun to see an increased amount of youngsters Just the other day, there were several 14 year olds who were seen in the emergency section for drug abuse treatment, there is no explanation or because an explanation made them pose as a justification, and

00:22:38.450 - 00:22:53.040

I think they feel the need to justify their actions to no one. They say at least that certain things about the environment in which they're in, they can't tolerate and they want to use dr leary's phrase, dropout and perhaps drugs produced a way of chemically dropping

00:22:53.040 - 00:23:47.100

out. Unfortunately, also, many times emotionally drop out for good. And I think this is the bad part. It is a federal offense to unlawfully possess, manufacture, sell or otherwise dispense depressant or stimulant drugs in any territory or state of the United

00:23:47.100 - 00:24:11.700

States. The term depressant or stimulant drugs refers to any drug commonly known as a barbiturate or amphetamine, and also includes any drug having an abusive or hallucinogenic effect on the central nervous system, the unlawful possession, transportation, sale or other dispensation of marijuana is likewise prohibited in

00:24:11.700 - 00:24:38.300

the state of California. The law likewise prohibits the unlawful manufacture possession, transportation, sale or other dispensation of narcotics marijuana, peyote dangerous drugs. And now, LSD California's definitions as to narcotics, marijuana and dangerous drugs generally are identical to those of the federal government. The state of California's

00:24:38.310 - 00:25:00.660

dangerous drug laws provide for both misdemeanor and felony punishments for violations thereof. And if the crime involves transportation or sale of a dangerous drug or LSD, the penalty ranges up to a maximum of 10 years imprisonment for repeat violators. The punishment for violating California's marijuana laws

00:25:00.770 - 00:25:09.350

is a maximum of one year for a first offender and a maximum of life imprisonment for a three time offender.