Pubdate: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 Source: Idaho Mountain Express (ID) Copyright: 2008 Express Publishing, Inc Contact: http://www.mtexpress.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2296 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n615/a07.html Author: Ralph Givens REAL DANGERS OF LSD Columnist Dick Dorworth dances around the true reason LSD was outlawed. Authorities were more than a little fearful of being exposed for the lying frauds they are. They knew for a fact that an LSD trip could undermine years of propaganda and opinion molding. Back in the 1960s when LSD was still legal, trippers saw Washington bigwigs thumping for the Vietnam War and instantly and without exception responded, "They're lying!" LSD enabled trippers to "see" the lies flashing out of McNamara et al like overamped strobe lights. LSD has the power to rip away fraudulent masks more effectively than Nero Wolfe, Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, Sherlock Holmes and Eliot Ness put together. A psychedelic mind set refuses to become cannon fodder in a needless Vietnam War for lunatic warriors like Richard Nixon. After they "turned on" they set out to stop such brutal nonsense and they did. The only "danger" LSD posed to users was having lifelong beliefs exposed as lies. We had dozens of Acid Tests and everyone always went home in control of their senses. Bum trippers were "talked down" in a matter of minutes by experts. There was only one problem. Everyone went away with far less respect for the "establishment." The fear of politicians that they would no longer be able to fool the public is the only reason LSD and other psychedelics are illegal. The list of drug-caused deaths never includes marijuana or psychedelics. Ralph Givens Daly City, Calif. - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake