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- From: ebenami@igc.apc.org (Etan Ben-Ami)
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: Re: Brain Damage from LSD (Pink Floyd's
- Message-ID: <1301300233@igc.apc.org>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 16:22:00 GMT
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- Re: Syd Barrett
- no desire to include all the previous thread
-
- It's important to remember that Syd Barrett trashed his mind
- over a period of at least five years. It wasn't one of those
- UL's you hear about someone taking one hefty dose and suddenly
- turning permanently schizophrenic.
- I don't know of any substantiated cases of that happening.
- A good friend of mine suffered an acid injury -- I wouldn't
- want to call her an acid casualty. She was an SF Digger in the
- mid to late 60s. One night, she and some friends were tripping
- and took a walk across the Golden Gate. She freaked, for reasons
- unknown. To this day she has a pronounced fear of heights and
- steep streets. This is a real liability in San Francisco. Small
- doses of Klonopin seem to control the phobia.
- Of course, she could have been in a psychological condition that
- would lend itself to the development of phobias under any circumstance.
- For myself, I have had traumatic experiences under acid that are
- hard to shake off, even twenty years later. I go down Minetta Lane
- (NYC) past the doorway marked "The Fat Black Pussycat", and I shudder.
- Years ago, I got into a nasty gang fight (they were a gang, I wasn't)
- there and got badly beaten, while tripping. Would I have less
- trauma if I had been drunk or just stoned on pot? I don't know.
-
- Most of the horrendous acid stories I hear just don't pan out
- when you investigate them further. The only ones that repeatedly
- seem to come up true are stories about someone walking across the
- street without looking or thinking they can fly. Most people don't
- take that big a dose anymore. I tend to think that if you can
- still talk, you aren't really tripping.
-
- -- Etan Ben-Ami
-