I didn't want to start my series on LSD this way at all, but last night was just too fucking much. The following is from a letter i sent to MAPS to support my own letter writing efforts to counter the idiotic propaganda of CBS.
Last night on CBS two 'dramatic' programs, back-to-back, undid all of the efforts to promote intelligent discourse on psychedelics that you, and all of the rest of us, have been undertaking in the last several years. It could not have been merely coincidental, nor could the scheduling have been programmed not to follow the wonderful and informative celebrations in Basel. These stupid shows, provided idiotic premises for using LSD and MDMA to kill people. MAPS, and others, need to write in protest to CBS, to Mark Gordon Productions/Touchstone TV (Criminal Minds), and to Jerry Bruckheimer (CSI-NY).
The premise of the episode of Criminal Minds (info below) was that some disgruntled chemist used LSD mixed with Rohypnol and put into "jolly rancher" style candy in a bank display, to "terrorize" a community. Each of the persons, who consumed what was described as 10X the street dose of LSD, suffered severe psychotic breaks and commited horrendous and horrible acts of violence. Those of us, who were fortunate to use LSD legally in the 60's, remember quite well taking dosages at this level (current disco street doses of 75 to 100 mcgs times a factor of 10 = 1000 mcgs) and much much higher as well. With the very notable exceptions of the extraordinarily few 'bad trips' (in terms of overall numbers of users, dosage levels, acid test participants and so forth), to have each and every person who received the dose in the TV show freaking out and committing violence makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. The sole purpose of the script was clearly to cast "reefer madness" like aspersions on LSD for the unfortunately millions of viewers.
The very next hour of CSI-NY that followed on the same network, had the cast chase down a smuggling ring of MDMA who used an "oil resin" version of "ecstasy" suspended in body paint as the transportation medium. A model who was painted with the body paint --and of course there was no mention whatsoever of DMSO or other solvent forms that would enable the body paint to be absorbed through the skin (of course there was also no mention at all of how the smugglers were going to get the MDMA out of the paint)--died from an "overdose" of "Ecstasy!" How this was possible, the pretexts for it, the manner in which the storyline portrayed the processes, all were really unbelievable and insincerely presented. It was all too clear to me that CBS and the producers of the two shows were engaged in an effort to attack and discredit psychedelic use in our culture.
Please make an effort to counter this abhorrent propaganda. If you can, please request scripts and statements from CBS- Mark Gordon Productions- Jerry Bruckheimer Productions? I fear we are back to the debacle of the mid-to-late 60's when LSD was publicly disparaged as the worst of all nemeses.
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