Now I'm confused. That handout said ecstacy suppresses thirst, which leads to hyperthermia. But then it says that ecstacy leads to overhydration which harms the body... I'm glad I learned about "drugs" from first hand experience, else I might have been totally confused from propaganda.

According to the following document;

www.mindmined.com/public_li...earch.html

"In November of 1953, the first LSD-related death occurred. There is little doubt that the suicide of Dr. Frank Olson is the origin of the popular myth that people who take LSD are likely to jump from windows. Olson was unwittingly dosed with LSD during a three-day work retreat for CIA and Army technicians in the backwoods of Maryland. Olson, who had never ingested drugs before, was upset that he had been given LSD against his will. He became very withdrawn and depressed under the influence of the powerful substance and remained so after its effects subsided. When Olson returned home from the retreat he asked his boss to fire him, claiming that his behavior had ruined the LSD experiment that his colleagues had undertaken the preceding weekend. Three weeks later, Olson jumped head first through a closed window, falling ten stories to the pavement below."

Note that Olson's jump came three weeks after he was dosed. It may have been this story that persuaded Linkletter that LSD was the reason for his daughter's suicide. The rest is history.

For the full dirty story of what the CIA did to destroy a life and a family of a loyal employee, check out the Frank Olson Legacy Project: www.frankolsonproject.org

It's sad that this story has become part of nationwide anti-drug propaganda.

"Over the past 5 years, the number of LSD-related hospital emergencies has been approximately 4000 per year."
www.emedicine.com/PED/topic2809.htm

That doesn't seem like a lot to me. The DEA's own website on LSD use says that "over the past 5 years, the number of LSD-related hospital emergencies has not exceeded 3,900 in any given year"
www.fas.org/irp/agency/d...lsd/lsd-7.htm

Note that this is quite different from "approximately 4000 per years". There are three types of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics...

The eMedicine website also says, "Generally, LSD-related deaths result from behavioral toxicity. An LSD user, for instance, was killed when he attempted to stop a train barehanded." However, google searches suggest this incident is attributed to both PCP and LSD, which leads me to wonder if it isn't also an urban legend. Anyone know the facts about the "stop a train barehanded" story? (My google search on the phrase only turned up seven hits, none of them helpful, while the variation "stop a train bare handed" came up with only four, also useless.)

Something tells me the story about trainstopping is as bogus as the one about flying.

Well since prohibition worked so wonderfully with alcohol, I don't see why it won't work with "drugs". :)

The legal term is N/A U.T.D.C. "not applicable, under threat, duress or coercion."

I'm in the process of collecting some information to put together a packet of material to give to the counselor at the school. I just learned today that my daughter's been getting a dose of this propaganda from a visiting teacher (trained in the program) every other week for several months. The principal focus has been on alcohol and tobacco, but the tone of what was being said about hallucinogens is what put me over the edge. I'd appreciate any pointers to resources I should include that will not make me seem like a creep. (My daughter is leaving this school in a couple of months, but my son will be there for a few years still.)

I can't help but think of the wisdom of the late great Bill Hicks: "How about a positive LSD story? Wouldn't that be news-worthy, just the once? To base your decision on information rather than scare tactics and superstition and lies? I think it would be news-worthy.” and "“If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them."

The kids who are getting the LSD myths about jumping out of windows also need to be taught about Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Erowid's got a whole long list of famous people who took drugs--most of whom didn't go crazy or die from an overdose.

www.erowid.org/culture/ch...g_use.shtml

The kids who are getting the bullshit propaganda also need to learn about Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, not to mention Michel Foucault.

It's the book of Genesis all over again:

"And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die" (Genesis 2:16-17).

Well, neither Adam nor Eve died the day they ate the fruit.

"And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died" (Genesis 5:5).

I guess that makes God a liar, too.

My daughter's not ready to get the whole story yet, but my wife did discuss with her the fact that the two of us have smoked pot together on many occasions. Now I'm pissed off that my daughter is being taught at school that her parents are stupid and evil and to be pitied for their bad decisions. It almost makes me want to homeschool!

thou, being care free as a youngster sure does have its bonus when tripping and navigating those realms.

There are only two people qualified to teach my daughter about the danger of drugs and alcohol and those are her parents.


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