“Trip” on a Banana
2023-06-12
This humorous article demonstrates the level of anxiety parents had over their kids using psychedelics in the late 1960s.Continue Reading
LI Student Says LSD Trip A Complete Blank to Him
2023-06-07
This newspaper article recounts the details of a student’s experience with LSD. The student, Joseph Morelli, says he does not remember the events that occurred after taking a half dose.Continue Reading
Former Soldier Denied Compensation for Damages in Army LSD Testing
2023-06-05
Soldier Calvin Sweet, one of many victims abused by the US government throughout the 1950s and 1960s, participated in army drug testing at Edgewood Arsenal in 1957.Continue Reading
New Alarm: Narcotics LSD ‘Trips’
2023-05-31
A 1967 newspaper clipping discussing the alleged rising use of LSD in Santa Cruz, CA.Continue Reading
The Effect of Group Administration Upon Symptom Formation Under LSD
2023-05-31
This article alludes to what we know as “set” (i.e. the mental state of the person taking LSD). Here, the doctors are trying to determine whether or not “the subject’s perception of the situation is capable of influencing his reaction to the drug”.Continue Reading
Friend Says LSD Victim Felt He was Devil Stealing Souls
2023-05-29
During the late 1960s, LSD scare stories became popular in newspapers across the United States.Continue Reading
It Can Drive You Out of Your Mind
2023-05-26
In this newspaper clipping, the author voices her concerns regarding LSD therapy.Continue Reading
Reports of Wives of Effects of LSD Treatment of Their Husbands
2023-05-18
Reports of Wives of Effects of LSD Treatment of Their Husbands Source: Archives of General Psychiatry Vol 14 Feb 1966 Author: Mary Sarrett While it is well known in psychedelic circles that medicines like LSD were used to help alcoholics kick the bottle, I am only aware of this one studyContinue Reading
Clinical Reactions and Tolerance to LSD in Chronic Schizophrenia
2023-02-13
Clinical Reactions and Tolerance to LSD in Chronic Schizophrenia Source: The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Vol 122 No 3 September 1955Author(s): Louis S. Cholden MD, Albert Kurkland MD, Charles Savage MD Back in 1955, LSD was still a new wunderkind that left those who worked with it bothContinue Reading
LSD, Alcoholism, and Transcendence
2022-09-11
LSD, Alcoholism, and Transcendence Source: The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Vol 135 (1962)Author: Charles Savage In this short piece, Dr. Charles Savage notes the success of using peyote to cure alcoholism among some First Nations peoples and wonders if LSD could be used for the same. Herein, SavageContinue Reading