CHRONOLOGICAL COLLECTION CATALOGUE

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1970.02.001  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information CenterBULLETIN No. 28February, 1970Lisa Bieberman”
This issue focuses on why the author got out of the psychedelic drug preparation recipe business, the problems of knowing what you are buying in an underground drug market, the difficulty in preparing your own psychedelic drugs and what this all means to the future of psychedelic drug use, in and out of a religious context. In the fall of 1966 Lisa Bieberman, one of Timothy Leary’s followers, started publishing a more-or-less bi-monthly “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN.” The early issues focused primarily on various recipes to prepare psychedelic agents from various plants. The later issues espouse conclusions about drug use (“marijuana inflates one’s self-conceit; but LSD undermines it.”), the status of various laws and legal cases concerning drug usage and possession, the results of clinical trials of psychotropic agents, the psychological repercussions of using LSD (flashbacks), the physiological repercussions of using LSD (chromosome damage), the religious use of LSD, and in the final issue, 5 years later, Lisa’s realization that she did not understand LSD and that she did not plan to “take psychedelics any more because I am afraid of them.”