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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

UCLA History: Drink Me or Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

Just a little experiment by a UCLA professor in the 1950s with giving a nice lady LSD at our neighboring VA Hospital:


The footage is discussed in the UK Daily Mail at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1348080/Grandma-acid-Researcher-finds-rare-footage-1950s-housewife-LSD-experiment.html


Here is a bio of Prof. Cohen, shown in the video:

Sidney Cohen conducted early LSD research in the 1950s and was a noted U.S. public expert on drug abuse from the 1960s to the 1980s. Cohen was a Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA and served in the Nixon Administration as the first Director, Division of Narcotic Abuse and Drug Addiction at the National Institute of Mental Health. He authored more than 250 journal and popular articles, books including The Beyond Within: The LSD Story, and served in editorial capacities for a number of journals. The Sidney Cohen Collection includes subject files covering Cohen's professional research, correspondence files from teen years until close to his death in 1987, biographical information documenting education and government service, audio tapes of LSD conferences from the late 1950s and early 1960s, a number of Cohen's articles and manuscripts, and files from LSD and mescaline experiments Cohen conducted with Gerald Heard.
Source: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0d5nf1w1/

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