ABSTRACT
One of the most striking characteristics of subjects under the effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) is the suggestibility that can be imposed by the environment, including the therapists or associates. LSD is a very powerful drug whose properties and propensities for therapy or for social dissolution have yet to be substantiated. The habitual LSD user has a college education or better, has had every opportunity of freedom from ethnic impediments, and is from modern suburbia. One of the most astonishing findings in Dr. Richard Blum’s report is the high rate of repetition of LSD use among professional medical personnel and observers. In the field of clinical pharmacology, it has long been recognized that volunteers for drug experiments are, as a group, psychologically unstable. Curiously enough, the most uniform statement of LSD users is that after the drug experience they are better in every way.
