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- From: tom@genie.slhs.udel.edu (tom)
- Subject: Re: 48 Hours... let the cascade begin
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.185831.28544@genie.slhs.udel.edu>
- Organization: The Lab Rats
- References: <1993Jan07.085546.183690@zeus.calpoly.edu> <1993Jan7.123415.9113@linus.mitre.org> <1993Jan8.062047.1435@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:58:31 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan8.062047.1435@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> andersom@spot.Colorado.EDU (Marc Anderson) writes:
- }In article <1993Jan7.123415.9113@linus.mitre.org> lewis@aera8700.mitre.org (Keith Lewis) writes:
- }[...]
- }>One psychiatrist they interviewed stated that 3% of all users suffer a
- }>"psychotic break." I seriously doubt this. How many people in the US have
- }>tried LSD? 10%? That would mean at least 0.3% of the population has gone
- }>nuts at one time or another. I think LSD use is much more likely to be
- }>reported if it causes something notable like this, so the stats are off.
-
- }Didn't Sidney Cohen do a similar study where he found a statistic more like
- }1 out of 1000, and concluded that this 1 out 1000 had a history of
- }alcoholism/schizophrenia or something like that? I believe this was
- }mentioned in Lawrence, _The Case for Legalizing Drugs_.
-
- according to something i xeroxed from a NIDA report published in 1982,
- they estimated that 16 (+/-2) million people in the US had used LSD.
- of course a lot has happened since then (for example the Grateful Dead
- became the most popular band in the country around '86) and i would not
- be surprised if the number has doubled or even tripled. i need to go
- look it up again one of these days.
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