![]() ![]() Suddenly LSD has become the sophisticated “fun thing to try among the smart set, the fast set and the beat set, and if you haven’t got a buddy who can run down to his friendly neighborhood LSD bootlegger and buy an apule of those little blue pills, you are simply not in, my friend. In the hallucinatory world of Alice in Wonderland, where caterpillars talk, mock turtles cry and magic mushrooms abruptly alter the gourmet’s perspective of the world (a fact well documented by the Indians of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula), the extraordinary properties of the vision-producing drug, LSD-25, would seem almost commonplace.īut even Alice might blink twice and remark, “Curiouser and curiouser,” were she to learn of the current fad and controversy that has sprouted up about the drug. “One side of what? The other side of what?” thought Alice to herself. Then it got down off the mushroom, and crawled away into the grass, merely remarking as it went, “One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.” The Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth and yawned once or twice, and shook itself. While some psychiatrists have found LSD useful in therapy, growing numbers of doctors are gravely worried by evidence that the drug may cause mental distress rather than cure it. LSD: Hollywood's Status-Symbol Drug | Cosmopolitan, November 1963 ![]()
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