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Show Psora ssrife Pswefedolk Mm By S. D. JONES Chronicle Staff Writer Subject A was introduced to drugs by his girl friend two years ago. He still uses marijuana in preference to LSD because the latter lat-ter "puts you through a lot of stuff," and prefers both drugs to the use of alcohol. He said "Alcohol "Al-cohol narrows your world and your perception. Drugs enlarge it. Your mind extends beyond the body so that you become one with the universe, uni-verse, but you can still look at yourself. You get a lot of introspection intro-spection that you wouldn't get with alcohol." A, one of three drug users interviewed, inter-viewed, described his experience for the Chronicle. Turning On "At first your are aware of your muscles. You can feel every muscle mus-cle in your body and you understand under-stand it. Your senses become very intense and sharp. You're aware of your personality flowing out of you and mingling with other personalities per-sonalities around you. You think the same thoughts and you understand under-stand each other a lot more. Your emotions are felt completely. You not only feel them but you know why and it seems to become a physical thing too. I don't recommend recom-mend making love while you're on a trip, though. You really don't have much of an emotional thing with the other person. Physically, it's fantastic, you feel it completely but you only know your own emotions. emo-tions. Coming out of it is just like feeling alcohol wearing off. It's just a let down; that's all you can say." Friends Introduce Drugs Subject B was introduced to hallucinogenic hal-lucinogenic drugs by friends. He said that initially he took LSD two or three times a week but like anything, any-thing, it gets boring so he seldom uses it more than once every month or two. He prefers LSD to marijuana. "Pot" makes him sick and dizzy. B also prefers drugs to alcohol because "alcohol dulls the thought processes. It makes you tired and you can't control either your body or your mind. With LSD you are always in control of yourself. your-self. You don't do anything to yourself you wouldn't ordinarily do. I mean you don't jump out of windows or walk in front of cars. Drunk people do these things because be-cause they don't know what they're doing. When you're under LSD you know exactly what you're doing do-ing and you know it more clearly." Turning On "Acid gives you more self involvement," in-volvement," B said. "Pot seems to be too weak to let you really get at yourself." B described his trip as having four distinct parts. Muscular awareness was first followed by heightened sensuality. "There is a very strong sex theme, but it's totally within yourself. You enjoy sex physically, in all parts of your body, but there's no mutual response." re-sponse." Next came a period of very pleasant hallucinations. "Colors and shapes appeared in fantastic ways," he said. He remarked that he had been on LSD when he saw the motion picture, Fahrenheit 451, and he was enveloped by colors and sounds. The movie was happening all over the theater and not just on the screen. There were some colors he honestly couldn't identify. U After the hallucinations came a contemplative let down. "I like to be alone during this last stage. I have a heightened awareness of my emotional problems, but I can put them into a different perspective perspec-tive and understand them better. I see things in a different way than before. I also like to play the piano at this time because I feel it's an extension of me. I think I enjoy playing more when I'm on acid because I feel what I'm playing." Asked what it was like to go on a trip with other people, he responded. re-sponded. "It's more a matter of companionship or compatibility. I don't feel my personality mixing with somebody else's. It's just the knowledge that they're having an experience too. That's what you share in." Drugs Boring Subject C no longer uses drugs. He said he "got tired of them." He preferred marijuana because it wasn't as strong as LSD but remarked re-marked that acid was "more interesting." inter-esting." He described the four LSD trips u he had been on as divided into two parts. The first being a state of "complete wipe-out; hallucinations, hallucina-tions, colors, shapes; that kind of stuff." The second part he described des-cribed as being highly sensual, as if the body were in a continual orgasm, but with no emotional feeling. "Otherwise," he said, "it's hard to make generalities about trips. Each one is different and each person is different. Probably, no two people have even remotely the same kind of experience as anyone any-one else." Not For Everyone All three agreed that drugs should only be used by basically' stable people. Users should know the limits of their physical and mental capabilities. One subject mentioned that "A few people always al-ways get hurt but usually because they are inexperienced and can't handle the particular quantity or potency of the drug. Sometimes they don't even know that they've taken it, like in a drink at a party or something. It's these people you hear about, and really there aren't (Continued on page 3) Another Dimension (Continued from pge 1) that many getting hurt by drugs, at least by pot and acid. Hallucin-ogenics Hallucin-ogenics aren't physically habit forming like narcotics. When you get right down to it, they're safer than alcohol and help you to understand un-derstand yourself better." Drugs To Be Legal All three subjects also agreed that some form of hallucinogenic drug will eventually be legalized. They said that the people who are using drugs today are from all walks of life primarily educated people and that less than fifty per cent are hippie-types. This means that some of these people are going to be making the laws in a few years. - m ' If- aw. "ZT- if J m. y ;mm 1k - There's another world, another dimension to be seen and students seek it through the use of pyschedelic drugs. |