Psychedelic Information Center Bulletins by Lisa Bieberman

1965.08.002
1965.08.002  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 1 - August 1965; Lisa Bierberman”
This issue focuses on the preparation of various psychedelics; the Neo-American Church; the Church of the Awakening; The Information Center in Cambridge, Mass., and the attempted formation of an LSD LOAN FUND to be sued as a bail fund to keep psychedelic activits out of jail, and to help finance active project to make psychedelics, and training in their use, available.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 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.”
1965.10.001
1965.10.001  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 2 - October 1965; Lisa Bierberman”
This issue focuses on the preparation of various psychedelics, the schedule for a lecture tour of Timothy Leary and Ralph Metzner, and the formation of “the LSD LOAN FUND” to have a standing fund to aid active projects aimed at making psychedelic drugs available to individuals for religious or philosophical purposes.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.”
1965.12.001
1965.12.001  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 3 - December 1965; Lisa Bieberman”
This issue focuses on the preparation of various psychedelics,notes on recent changes to drug laws, a request for volunteers for a nationwide Psychedelic Telephone Directory, and a coupon entitling the bearer to 2 free 300mcg doses of LSD-25 when present3d in person at the P.I.C.. “Offer expires 12/21/65.”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.”
1966.02.001
1966.02.001  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 4 - February 1966; Lisa Bieberman”
This issue focuses on Psychedelic Churches, laws about drugs, a psychedelic center in Baha California and a notice about the opening of “The Psychedelic Shop, 1535 Haight St., San Francisco,” an information center selling books, records and art works.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.”
1966.04.001
1966.04.001  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 5 - April 1966; Lisa Bieberman”
This issues focuses on the March 11, 1966 sentencing of Timothy Leary to 30years in prison and a $30,333 fine for transporting a failure to pay the tax on less than an ounce of marijuana found on the person of his daughter, Susan; a psychedelic conference to be held on June 13 in UC Berkeley; the status of new state drug laws; and the availability of psychedelic recipes.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.”
1966.08.004
1966.08.004  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 07 - August 1966; Lisa Bieberman”
This issue focuses on general news of the psychedelic movement, inclding: News of the June 13-19 conference in San Francisco, Washington DC news, Legal test cases progressing through the courts, Gene Davis’ psychedelic ranch in California, and a review of some states’ laws.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 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.”
1966.12.005
1966.12.005  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 09 - Dec 1966; Lisa Bieberman”
This issue focuses on general news of the psychedelic movement, inclding: “An all-day rally of psychedelic people will be held at Golden Gate park on January 14; Tim Leary, Allen Gionsberg and others will be there. For more information contact Michael Bowen”; Timothy Leary court battles, The Bruin Humanist Forum, Request for volunteers for the 1967 Psychedelic Phone Directory; and a list of proposed psychedelic New Year’s Resolutions.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.”
1967.04.123
1967.04.123  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 11 - April 1967; Lisa Bieberman”
This issue focuses on general news of the psychedelic movement, inclding: a tentative schedule of John Aiken’s “Church of the Awakening” spring tour; notices of a symposium on the religious significance of psychedelic drugs and of a series of programs on LSD and the psychedelic movement; f formula for preparing morning glory sees, myths within the psychedelic movement, such as smoking bananas, and interpretation of federal drug stautes.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.”
1967.06.039
1967.06.039  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 12 - June 1967; Lisa Bieberman”
This issue focuses on the author’s experieces, conclusions and changing perspectives of her five year participation in the “psychedelic movement,” including the last two years publishing the Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN. 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.”
1967.08.021
1967.08.021  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 13 - August 1967; Lisa Bieberman”
This issues focuses on the author’s decision to keep publishing the Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN and her reasons for doing so, updates on the issue of chromosome damage and the status of the “Church of the Awakening.” 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.”
1967.10.010
1967.10.010  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 14 - October 1967; Lisa Bieberman”
This issue focuses on the status of various legal issues surrounding psychedelics. It also referneces of a conversation with Dr. David Smith of the Haight-Ashbury Clinic, who tells how his office was overwhelmed with freak-out cases after thousands of STP pills were given away at a Be-In. 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.”
1967.12.002
1967.12.002  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 15 - December, 1967; Lisa Bieberman”
This issue focuses on the author’s attempt to answer two questions: 1.) Does LSD cause chromosome breakage, and if it does, what does that signify? And 2.) Does LSD cause defective babies? 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.”
1968.02.001
1968.02.001  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 16 - February, 1968; Lisa Bieberman”
This issue focuses on the use of psychedelics in native American and non-native American churches, including LSD, peyote and “the Divine Toad,” criticism of Billy Hitchcock and Leary and Kleps, and plans for an eventual above-ground center for systematic religious use of psychedelics.”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.”
1968.04.004
1968.04.004  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 17 - April, 1968; Lisa Bieberman”
This issue focuses on H.R. 15355, a bill introduced into the House of Representatives to amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act by increasing the penalties for illegal manufacture and traffic in hallucinogenic drugs, and contains a reprint of a letter from the author to her congressman, Thomas P. O’Neill, urging him to vote no on this or any other bill that would increase penalties for drug violations or make criminals of users.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.”
1968.06.003
1968.06.003  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 18 - June, 1968; Lisa Bieberman”
This issue focuses on the author’s frustration and dismay with the failure of psychedelic communities, as exemplified by the Millbrook asylum, the tendency for every organized effort to fall apart, and of the flashiness and dishonesty of the hip scene and its leaders. It also reports that young persons, especially, who use LSD frequently tent to have a very poor grasp of reality, are subject ot acute “flashbacks”, ego dissolution, and the loosening of mental acuity concerned with this reality. 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.”
1968.08.005
1968.08.005  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 19 - August, 1968; Lisa Bieberman”
This issue focuses on the author’s reasons for, after 5 ½ years as a moderate user of psychedelics, continuing to use LSD .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.”
1968.10.001
1968.10.001  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 20 - October, 1968; Lisa Bieberman”
This issue spells out, in some detail, her plans for a religious center for structured use of psychedelics.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.”
1968.12.002
1968.12.002  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 21 - December, 1968; Lisa Bieberman”
This issue focuses on the author’s attendance at a conference on “Creativity and Psychoactive Agents,” where one of the presenters rejects the religious hypothesis about LSD, because of the misery he has seen in such places as Haight-Ashbury, where its use has become demonic, with people turning to black magic or living in caves. The author states that she too “observed the demonic aspect of the LSD scene” and that “If LSD is meant to open a man to God, then the demonic is exactly what one would expect from its perversion. I have seen the misery. It is terrible to behold.” This issue is printed on light green paper.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.”
1969.02.001
1969.02.001  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 22 - February, 1969; Lisa Bieberman”
This issue focuses on LSD and chromosome damage.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.”Of the 28 issues in this collection, only one mention is made of the psychoses experienced by thousands of users as a result of taking “bad acid.”
1969.04.002
1969.04.002  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 23 - April, 1969; Lisa Bieberman”
This issues focuses on the subjective difference between the experiences from marijuana and those from psychedelics. 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.”
1969.06.002
1969.06.002  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 24 - June, 1969; Lisa Bieberman”
This issues focuses on the legal situation and contains a chart, for each state and the penalty for possession on a first conviction and the penalty for sale on a first conviction, of specific drugs. 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.”
1969.08.002
1969.08.002  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 25 - August, 1969; Lisa Bieberman”
This issue focuses on a petiion from the president of the Church of the Awakening for an exemption to the Drug Abuse Control Amendments that would permit the church to use peyote as a sacrament, the start of a new organization, the Phanerothyme Society, to promote religious belief in Almight God, to seek increased understanding of God’s purpose regarding phanerothyme, to share concerns and insights with other religious groups, and to promote and defend the welfare and civil rights of phanerothymists.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.”
1969.10.002
1969.10.002  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 26 - October, 1969; Lisa Bieberman”
This issue focuses on the Phanerothyme Society and its relationship to religion and offers six rules for using phanerothyme religiously.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.”
1969.12.002
1969.12.002  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 27 - December, 1969; Lisa Bieberman”
This issue focuses on published research relating to the LSD-chromosome controversy, and includes a message from a Massachusetts Quaker organization urging that the governments attempt to treat together drugs of quite different sorts is a grave mistake. 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.”
1970.02.001
1970.02.001  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 28 - February, 1970; Lisa 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.”
1970.04.001
1970.04.001  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 29 - April, 1970; Lisa Bieberman”
This issues focuses on the “Controlled Dangerous Substances Act of 1969.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.”
1970.06.001
1970.06.001  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 30 - June, 1970; Lisa Bieberman”
This issue focuses on the occurrence of “flashbacks” and the author’s belief that flashbacks “are not particularly dangerous in themselves nor are the necessarily symptoms of any dangerous condition, though they may sometimes be unpleasant.”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.”
1970.08.001
1970.08.001  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 31 - August, 1970; Lisa Bieberman”
This issue focuses on the author’s personal experiences with LSD, notes on her most recent LSD experience, and letters that she has written about LSD to California Governor Ronald Reagan and others about the drug. This issues is printed on bright yellow paper.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.”
1970.10.001
1970.10.001  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 32 - October, 1970; Lisa Bieberman”
This issue focuses on LSD and brain damage and the author’s conclusion that “there is no evidence to date connecting LSD use with generalized brain damage or impairment comparable to that found in persons with proven brain lesions,” and that “Evidence for a lesser degree of impairment is inconsistent.”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.”
1970.12.001
1970.12.001  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 33 - December, 1970; Lisa Bieberman”
This issue focuses on drug laws and a discussion as to weather psychedelics are”natural.”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.”
1971.02.001
1971.02.001  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 34 - February, 1971; Lisa Bieberman”
This issue focuses on the author’s opinions of Timothy Leary as a person and his relationship with Eldridge Cleaver. “It is hard for me to be fair to Leary. He took a thing [LSD] I had come to cherish and sold it to the devil.”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.”
1971.06.001
1971.06.001  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN No. 35 Last Issue - June, 1971; Lisa Bieberman”
This last issue focuses on the author’s ultimate realization that she did not understand LSD and that she did not plan to “take psychedelics any more because I am afraid of them.”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), and the religious use of LSD.