--- Ian Murray <seamus2001 at home.com> wrote:
> [this is the trend to watch...]
>
> Author Ken Kesey Dead at Age 66
Ian, I dont know what you mean by this...However, I have noticed that whenver a psychedelic explorer dies there are people who like to point and say ..."see this is what drug experimentation will do to you" (I am not accusing you of that), as if we all aren't destined to die. At times there are famous psychedelic explorers who die young...such as Terence McKenna who died in his early 50s last year.
On the other hand, there are other such explorers who live to be quite old, such as John Lilly M.D. and the discoverer (and advocate) of LSD, Albert Hofmann, who is quite old. Even in Kesey's case, while not old, 66 is not young either.
As a person who believes in the potential of responsible psychedelic use, I rush to remind everyone that no adverse effects of LSD have ever been proven when given to people who are relatively mentally stable. The old propaganda that it splits chromosone was found to be based on a study on one (!) person, a person who had previously been institutionalized and had received massive amounts of drugs known to have the effect of chromosone "splitting"...When Timothy Leary and other heavy LSD users were tested, there was no such problem found.
Two years ago, I saw Ken Kesey in a History Channel special "The History of LSD"...and he was still touting the benefits of LSD. God bless him!!!!
-Thomas
===== "The tradition of all the dead generations
weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living"
-Karl Marx
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