2 /lu«u Bdi tor: Dan rtcLeod Busintee Manofttr: Joe E111S Bob Cunnings Wanis Kourl Art Dapartnent:Ken Wallace Mouse StratOffif: Barry Cramer Adoartieing: Charlie Brown Photography: Fred Oavidoff Saoratan: Yvonne Park Sky Pitot: Dot) Fee Subaariptiona: Louise Lament Ciroulation: Julie Palmer Soandal Raaaaroh:Paul Tarasoff GEORGIA STRAIGHT Is published fortnightly on Fridays, except tri-weekly from Janua ry to March, by Gaorgia Straight PublUh- ing Ltd. Authorized as second class mall by the Post Office Department, Ottawa,and for payment of postage In cash. ELMORE I liavc been asked many times about the facts about vdMjn ywi are In ojurt and are called to testify. The kids want to know if they have to swear on oath that the evidence they are to give will be the truth etc. etc. Well, under the Canada Evidence act there is a clause that reads as follows: 14 (1) Where a person called or desiring to give evidence objects, on grounds of conscient ious scruples, to take an oath, or is objected to as lnomt»etant to take an oath, such person may make the following affirmation: I solemnly affirm that the evidence to be given by me shall be the truth, the whole tr uth, and nothing Kjt the truth. (2) Upon the person making such solenm affirmation his evidence shall be taken and have the ame affect as if taken tinder oath. br SMPfMii R.S., c. S9, s. 14. Impurities in LSD If you want to take advantage of this clause in the law you are perfectly within your rights to do so but, ask yourself this question, how ncccnt reports show that LSn Is more harm with acid is Identical with completely psycho does the about people who are not less than previously suspected. Ill-effects at- tic —delusions, hallucinations, ' etc. willing to acknowledge God? How such weight rihuted to LSD seem to l>e caused by nriphetantin- It's AS Hell. These tabs are dangerous. will my testimony hold in a case where a friend 05 Instead. Of some S,f)00 younp people with Joel Fort, M.D., nnd Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., IS being tried? drup-indiiced pysdwtic symptoms treated at the recently stmarized all studies on alleged gen Iirmediate Psydiiatric Aid Center at San Pran- etic modification hy ]£Ti in an article to he cisco General Hospital in 1967, 5/4 were suff published in Tha Payehadalia Review. In con ering from speed, according to Dr. n. Carfagni, trast to three studies of effects of pure LSD chief of the center. The remaining 1/4 suffered on the chromosomes of white blood cells which ill effects attributed to LSD. In 1967, acid up found no chromosomal hiriii StriUbt IMS 15 L 1 ■■. A ^ r-' K e ^ 1^ I is too lucrative for coa^tition. The ingredi a pjych^lic-« opposed to cannlMs ents for a ^thesis are cheap, available, and -OTly 50 tines since 1952. But .hen you oet the synthesis is absurdly siitple, A real speed wthhig but meth-cut acid, you are always left freak may shoot meth 5 times a day ($5 a shot), frustrated and unfllfilled, more and more raady and keep it up for 7 days. The result is dep stimulation endence so close to opiate-style addiction that unpleasant trip you get LSD it might as well be. Days of wakefulness arc with LSD cut with meth, Cradually. • acid fell (continued from page 2) followed by a terrible cone-down, 24 hours or out 6f use last fall and thousarkls of hips more of dead sleep, and thm several weeks of speed. ftich is the egomania intro lethargy and intense depression, while the sys duced by speed that the movement nearly fell a- tem re-stahilizes. The depression is usually so part. Perhaps it is not coincidence that aarhe- bad that the freak can do nothing but take ano tanine has never been as thoroughly outlawed as Thus, LSn con cause no more damapc than coamon ther shot of noth to get out. acid. The establishment could not consciously tranquilizers and stinulants (ejj, apfihetinines, Last fall, observers found that the Mafia have unrented a better antidote for hipsterisi chloroprowazines, caffeine, aspirin). Since was marketing tabs which contained perfectly Nobody has to buy acid with meth in it. studies conducted with pure LSD show no damage, adequate does of acid, along with the usual fine lysergic acid amide (first cousin of .. it's more likely that jtenetic danage coincident meth. nradually a third motive for putting is naturally available in heavenly blue md tal with LSD use is caused by impurities, es speed in acid became clear. The ftefia was using pearly gates morning glory seeds. These are av pecially methedrine, universally present in' meth-cut acid to acquaint people with meth in ailable from retail outlets only, and only for b}ack nmrket material. the best caitext, to condition them to accept a month out of the year. ftit beautiful white anddesireit.Ai^hetanlnesmustbeclassedas morning glories (the strongest kind) are grow LSD ccrannly reaches the consuner cut with inginvacantlotsalloverVancouver.Sowbody strychnine, belladonna, or methedrine. The bel addictive rather than psychedelic drugs in ano theriBTwrtantrespect.AsKilliamBurroughshas planted their seeds. Observant hips can ladonna and strychnine x-re recerft, a testimony take on abuidant harvest in the fall. The n«j- to the criminalization of traffic in psychede first pointed out. stlifuli associated with a sea caused by the seed is not worse than peyote- lics and the scarcity of acid, both resulting psychedelic experience, when repeated without take a long, vlgourous walk, and it passes from police persecution of the scene. Acid was the drug, tend to reactivate the psychedelic My. It's better to enAne the nausea for the always occasionally cut with some kind of stim experience. Stijmli associated with the meth beautiful experience that follows than to ukc ulant, depending on the chemist, hut the fhfia experience, (or tl» opiate experience), on the experience shows that r»th-cut first made a policy of cutting acid with meth, other hand, when repeated cause only a craving acid will disappear from the market, except in gradually replacing acid with more and more for t!« drug. The content of a mcth/ocid exper periods of extreiw scarcity, if people loally meth until the dosage was practically pure • ience, for the incredibly sensitized psyche, is refuse to buy it. Grass cut with sugar used to methamphetimine. TWo reasons for this are envi an intensified speed trip. There is stimula plague pothcads, causing sore lungs and fierce ous. Meth (or belladonna, etc.) is cheaper and tion, euphoria, some hallucinating, hut no real coughs. Hventimlly no one would touch it, ?4ow more available than acid. lUalso brings the consciousness expansion, no ego-loss, no exper we get pure pot, even when we don't always get organism under stress. Reseaiwrs early found ience of 'renewal' vdiich you get in a good psy of it. If you reftise acid cut with meth. that certain chonical stresses intmsify the chedelic experience. And 'psychedelic stiiruli’ buying enough acid with your friends so that effects of LSD. Meth particularly has a 'lift —music, posters, sights, sounds, even acid somebody can get a free taste before the deal off similar to acid, and is preferred.itself—thereafter tend to cause only a craving is made, you can get pure acid. An occasional Acid has never b^ more than a sideline for for methedrine. taste of speed won't hi^ you, it's a steady the Mafia (or syndicate). The real money is in Meth always re-enforces the ego, restricts diet that does the damrfge. If we really,want to heroin and mctlwdrine, liut hips p.re wsty of awareness, prevents renewal, and wears out your expand our consciousness, we have to be careful heroin, so tl»e ^lafia sells them net'', if in in self even more. True psychedelic experience ^t the ch^icals we put into our systems. ; dependent tries to make it, and the .'tafii. is on does not leave you needing or wanting another Otherwise, the epitaph of the hip coranunity nwy ‘ the scene, they turn him in to the police. Methone for quite a while. Allen Clnsberg says thatwell read: Speed Killetl. ^ ^