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Hey kiddies gather around
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the man with the goodies is here.
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Here's a little beauty from me you youty,
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just inhale and sniff,
it is airplane glue.
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Oh whiff man and you.
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Isn't it true that sniffing glue
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can damage your liver and kidneys?
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Cool it kid, looky
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amphetamines, benny's, dexy's, meth.
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They say amphetamines can
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cause something like schizophrene.
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Schizophrene, in
most cases it does not last.
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Cool it kid.
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Now for the bobs, neato,
nice easy downers.
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With drawls from barbiturates
can cause convulsions.
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Will you convulse
yourself outta here?
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Grass, anything wrong with pot?
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They're not sure yet, they
just started studying about it.
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Worry wart.
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Dig everybody, LSD.
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Bad trips and a chance
of chromosome damage.
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How do yo know
you got chromosomes?
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Everything you got there
can hurt you, can't it?
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Sure kid, why do
you think they call it dope.
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Hey where's everybody going?
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Mitch is all business.
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The free ride is over if David
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wants more reds it'll cost him.
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He'll have to come up with the bread.
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How that's his business.
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Everyone else is doing it.
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If David wants to be one of the crowd
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he'll have to fall in line.
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David doesn't want to be left out,
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to lose his new found friends
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and he does consider Henry
and Mitch his friends.
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He assures them he"ll get the money.
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He saved his allowance
but it wasn't enough.
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He started to hoard the
money his mother gave him
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for juice with his school lunch.
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And he went without.
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And he began to steal coins
from his mothers purse.
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Pooling all the money he
could lay his hands on.
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His allowance, his lunch money,
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and what he could pilfer,
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David soon has saved several dollars.
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And when his mother treats him
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to a movie he adds this money as well.
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By now he has enough for a sizable score.
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David's eager to see Mitch.
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And Henry agrees to take him to a place
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where his brother often hangs out with
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his friends to smoke
pot or drop some pills.
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Turn on.
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What's going on?
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Beats me.
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It's Karen.
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What happened?
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She must have ODed.
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Is she dead?
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Yeah, come on.
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But she was Mitch's girl shouldn't we.
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Look don't you fink,
don't you dare fink.
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The next day school,
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going to classes, being with
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the other kids is a nightmare for David.
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Pretending nothing had
happened while carrying
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the burden of his terrible knowledge.
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He is disturbed, shaken, he's afraid
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but he doesn't know what to do.
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He feels he must tell
someone what he knows
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and yet he doesn't want
to rat on his new friends.
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Henry realizes that David is
up tight about the whole thing.
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He tries to put him at
ease, he even offers
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him a couple of reds for free to make
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his problems go away but David declines.
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Mitch has been arrested, busted.
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They're taking him away.
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Someone had talked, someone
had told about Karen.
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She hadn't been able to get a big enough
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or quick enough high, she had taken
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an overdose Mitch had been supplying her.
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The thoughts are whirling
around in Davids head.
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Henry, Karen, Mitch, the realization
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of the grave consequences of getting mixed
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up with drugs and
narcotics crowds in on him.
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Hey good catch.
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Yeah.
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That's one way of getting it around.
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What?
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Narcotics information.
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Did you read it?
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No.
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Why not, you might learn something.
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Like what?
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Like what's it's all about.
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How come you know so much about it?
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I was a user, no more I quite
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before I got hooked for good.
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I found out the facts about drugs.
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It's right here.
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Let's take a walk.
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You know to be a user and not to be a user
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is one of the most important decisions
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you'll ever have to make.
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And the decisions yours and yours alone.
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Isn't it worth getting at
the truth before making it?
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Yeah, I guess so.
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Once you've turned on you don't know
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anymore when you get really hooked,
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when it becomes impossible
for you to stop.
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The best thing is never to start,
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second best of you're on something
get off now and stay off.
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Yeah if it's hard stuff
but just smoking grass,
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that's no worse than smoking cigarettes
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or taking a drinK that's
supposed to be bad
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for you to but people
still do it so why not pot?
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Oh come on don't give
me that you know better.
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Sure smoking's bad for you,
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sure drinking too much
can mess you up everybody
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knows that but is that any reason to start
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on one more stupid hangup like
smoking gras or turning on?
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What's so bad about pot?
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Okay let's go over it together.
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Marijuana, pot is a weed that grows
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wild in many parts of the world.
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It's an Indian hemp plant
called cannabis sativa.
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All of it, the leaf, the stem,
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and the seeds can be used for smoking.
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The effects on a smoker depends
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on the quality and the
amount of pot smoked.
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Everyone reacts in a different way to it
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and there's no telling
how it will effect you.
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You lose touch with the real world,
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your senses become distorted
and you can't function
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normally and your judgment of what you're
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doing becomes faulty and
that can be very dangerous.
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Pot may not be physically addictive like
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the hard stuff but you
come to depend on it,
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after a while you just gotta have it.
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In that way it is like smoking cigarettes.
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Have you ever seen a heavy
smoker trying to quit?
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Well it's like that, only
more so, much more so.
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And as for your drinking
bit pot can make you
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act just as rattle brained
as if you were drunk.
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If you blow pot regularly after a while
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you get a real I don't care attitude
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about everything, just think
about what would happen
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if everyone had that kind of an attitude.
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There are times when everyone of us has
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to depend on someone else,
I'm sure you've had to.
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Suppose they had the I don't care attitude
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of a pot smoker when you needed them.
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Some scientists who
have studied the effects
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of pot smoking say it's very bad for you.
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Others say it's not, but one thing
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they do agree on, it isn't good for you.
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We'll have to wait for more tests
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before we'll know just how bad it is.
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If you blow pot you take a chance
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of blowing your whole future.
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What's the sense in doing that?
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But isn't it good for something?
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Negative man, marijuana has no medical
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use like pills do for instance.
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Yeah, what about pills?
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Doctors give them to people,
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there can't be any harm in them.
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Depends.
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Not when they're prescribed by
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a doctor to help cure some illness.
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There's a big fat difference between
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taking drugs on prescription to get well
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and taking them for kicks to get high.
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A doctor has had years of training,
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when he gives you a pill
he knows why you need it,
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he knows what and how much to give you,
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he knows what it'll do to you.
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What do you think a dealer knows about
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things like that, his lack
of knowledge may cost you.
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Pills and caps fall into
two main categories,
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amphetamines uppers and
barbiturates downers.
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Uppers are stimulants directly affect
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your central nervous system,
your brain and spinal cord.
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They come in many shapes
and colors with slang names
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such as benny's, dexy's, and harts.
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Often they're bought on the
street rolled in tin foil.
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One of the most dangerous, mephedrone,
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also called meth or speed
comes in both tablet
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and powder form.
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It's very, very true that
speed kills, it has many times.
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Under a doctors care
amphetamines and barbiturates
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are used to treat
various medical problems.
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But taken for kicks it's another story.
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Unchecked abuse may lead to
dependency, even addiction.
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The user becomes confused, aggressive,
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irrational, and reckless.
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In bad cases it may even lead
to a serious mental disorder.
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Barbiturates, downers, are depressants.
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The opposite of uppers
and even more dangerous.
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One of the most dangerous
is seconal, reds.
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There are many downers on the market
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with slang names such as reds, yellows,
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pink ladies, blue heavens, and rainbows.
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Downers are addictive,
you have to have more
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and more of the drug because your body
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gets used to it until you may
well take an overdose, OD.
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More people died from downer ODs
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in the United States one year
than were killed by guns.
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Sure popping pills may feel great
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at the moment but in the
end it'll destroy you.
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A dealer will try to get
you hooked on something
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that will make you come
back to him, like reds.
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He'll tell you that you'll get
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a bigger high from stronger stuff.
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LSD, even heroin, it becomes easier
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to go onto the next step all the time.
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LSD is a very powerful and
very destructive hallucinogen.
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It comes in tablet or powder form
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or as a liquid and it is
most often taken by mouth,
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perhaps over a sugar cube.
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The effect on the mind is frightening,
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completely unpredictable.
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The trip can be the hope for heaven.
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Or it can be a hell of horrors
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from which you may never return.
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A lot of young people have
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become permanently deranged through
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a single terrifying trip.
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Or have destroyed themselves
while freaking out.
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Neither LSD nor heroin
has any real medical uses.
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Heroin addiction is the end
of the road for the user.
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The way back is almost impossible.
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Withdrawal from the deadly narcotic
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is extremely dangerous and painful.
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A heroin high could
put you six feet under.
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And think about this, nearly every
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heroin addict began by blowing pot.
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And every last one of them never
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thought that he'd go onto the hard stuff.
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That's something that
happens to the other guy.
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And here's something else to consider.
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From pot to heroin, it's
against the law to posses it,
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to sell it, to give it away, even to be
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in a place where illegal drugs
or narcotics are being used.
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You can be arrested, get yourself
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a police record that may
hurt you all your life
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and it's just plain stupid to blame
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the police officer like some heads do.
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He's only doing the job that we
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the people have hired him to do.
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Upholding the laws that protect us all.
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It makes a lot more sense to help him.
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How?
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Well you may feel that you don't
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want to tell on your friends
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but maybe that kind of
loyalty's misplaced.
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The fact is the dealer who wants
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to turn you on is not your friend.
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He will abandon you at
once if there's trouble.
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Drug friend ships are
not real friendships.
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Who's really your friend,
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the one that wants to get you
on self destructive drugs,
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who's eager to mess up your life.
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Or the one who wants to
steer you clear of them,
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to point out the very real
dangers to you, honestly.
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Using narcotics or
abusing drugs is nothing
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but a cop out from life, an escape
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from having to face up
to everyday problems.
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Everyone has hangups and problems,
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growing up means learning
to cope with them.
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They don't go away by themselves
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and drugs only make them worse.
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By using them we only deny ourselves
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the ability to become mature
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and responsible and have a
chance of real happiness.
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Drug addicts on the average live 20 to 25
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years less than they would if
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they didn't pollute their
bodies and minds with narcotics.
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We all know how the
earth is being polluted.
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You don't believe in pollution do you,
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polluting the water and
the soil and the air.
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Of course not.
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You want it stopped?
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Sure.
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What are you doing about it?
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You're kidding, what can I do?
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Well for one thing, one very important
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thing you can decided not
to pollute your own body.
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The pollution that's being blown
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into the atmosphere everyday,
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fouling the air we breath is no different
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from the pollution you draw into
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your lungs when you smoke pot.
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The sewage being dropping
into the water polluting
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and poisoning it is really no different
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than the drugs you put into your body
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when you drop pills or acid.
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If you had an aquarium with beautiful fish
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in it you wouldn't pour
poison into it would you?
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Then why put poison into your own body?
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You never really know what's in
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the drugs or narcotics you get.
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Most dealers don't know themselves.
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They're in it to make a buck,
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a lot of stuff has all kinds of junk mixed
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into it to make it stretch further.
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You can be sure of only one thing,
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it will pollute your body and your mind.
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If you're smart you'll say no to drugs,
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you'll say no to this chemical cop out.
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Yeah but who
wants to be called chicken?
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Chicken who's really chicken?
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The guy who must go along
with the crowd at any cost,
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or the guy who has the guts to take
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a stand for what he knows is right
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even if it's not the popular thing to do?
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Think about it man, think about it.
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David is impressed.
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He has been given a lot to think about.
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He's promised his mother
to pick up his brother.
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Eddy at the grade school, his old school.
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But when he gets there
he doesn't see him around
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he learns that Eddy and
a couple of his friends
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went on down to a construction site
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where they're putting in storm drains.
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David goes down to get him.
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David is shaken, not Eddy,
not his little brother.
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This could be the start, sniffing.
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Whether it's glue or an
aerosol can or what have you.
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It's just as bad, just as dangerous
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as the rest of the drug scene.
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It to can cause permanent
damage, it can even kill.
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There are lots of things
David has to tell his brother.
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Drugs and narcotics not only
turn you on, they turn on you.
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Don't pollute your body
and your mind with them.
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It's your decision, just remember
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there are a 1,000 reasons
why users end up losers.
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You are looking at a traveler
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who just bought a ticket for
a very special kind of trip.
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The cost, a few dollars and his mind.
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Over which he will shortly
have very little or no control.
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Now most of his
preparations have been made
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and he's just about ready to go.
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He won't have to leave this
room if he doesn't want to
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but he'll travel so far that
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he may get lost and never come back.
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Transportation of the fantastic
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and frightening territory of interspace,
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courtesy of the most powerful mind
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altering drug ever discovered.
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Destination unknown, curtesy LSD-25.
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My full chemical name is.
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Dextrol lysergic acid
diethylamide tartrate 25.
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But as everyone knows I'm called LSD
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for short though I'm also called acid
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and by some highly unflattering names
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by those who wish I'd
never been discovered.
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Right now some 200
micrograms of my substance
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has just entered his body
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and already my potent molecules
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are on their way to his brain where
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they will trigger some
very special chemistry.
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And in just a few minuets now I will
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show him glimpses of distorted beauty
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or tumble him into a
terrifying private hell.
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00:19:08,689 --> 00:19:09,833
But at just this moment neither
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he nor I know the direction or destination
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00:19:13,736 --> 00:19:16,030
of the trip we're about to take together.
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"Round round out of your mind."
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00:19:20,785 --> 00:19:24,139
"You think you're seeing
things I know you're blind."
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"A million bright colors
explode in your head."
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"Today you're just high
tomorrow you're dead."
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00:19:30,836 --> 00:19:34,298
"Round round round round."
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Round, round out of your mind.
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That's right.
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00:19:39,929 --> 00:19:41,323
And as you might imagine not all
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of the people who know about me
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approve of what I am or what I do.
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These people for example have seen
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my effects and think I'm a total disaster.
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00:19:52,608 --> 00:19:54,252
But they know to that
I am part of the scene
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and that I can be purchased much more
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00:19:56,946 --> 00:19:59,007
easily than you might think.
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00:19:59,031 --> 00:20:00,050
Well I think it's pretty easy
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00:20:00,074 --> 00:20:02,844
because, well like this one last night
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00:20:02,868 --> 00:20:03,721
this one dude walked up
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00:20:03,745 --> 00:20:06,580
and he just handed me some so
I just went ahead and took it.
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00:20:07,623 --> 00:20:11,645
You can be
standing on a street corner
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00:20:11,669 --> 00:20:14,940
and somebody will approach you.
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00:20:14,964 --> 00:20:16,483
It's too easy to get acid,
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00:20:16,507 --> 00:20:19,528
there's too many beeboppers
running around town.
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00:20:19,552 --> 00:20:22,239
I can get acid by
simply calling a friend
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00:20:22,263 --> 00:20:24,658
and I can get as much or as little
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00:20:24,682 --> 00:20:27,452
as I want within a very
short amount of time.
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00:20:27,476 --> 00:20:28,912
Acid for me is very easy to get,
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00:20:28,936 --> 00:20:31,373
I can get it from
anywhere, from four blocks
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00:20:31,397 --> 00:20:33,733
to ten block of my house
in about 20 minutes.
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00:20:34,942 --> 00:20:36,837
See what did I tell ya?
400
00:20:36,861 --> 00:20:37,861
Kids know.
401
00:20:38,696 --> 00:20:40,841
Of course I'm not exactly the exclusive
402
00:20:40,865 --> 00:20:44,845
property of young people but
kids know a lot about me.
403
00:20:44,869 --> 00:20:47,848
More than most older people for example.
404
00:20:47,872 --> 00:20:49,141
They're damaged for life,
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00:20:49,165 --> 00:20:50,350
they're brains are a wreck,
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00:20:50,374 --> 00:20:52,978
they go into institutions, they're through
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00:20:53,002 --> 00:20:53,813
for the rest of their life.
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00:20:53,837 --> 00:20:56,398
And I read some silly
things about kids falling
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00:20:56,422 --> 00:20:58,024
out of trees and painting
them selves green
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00:20:58,048 --> 00:21:01,987
and yellow and it's rather stupid to me.
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00:21:02,011 --> 00:21:02,822
It's no good.
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00:21:02,846 --> 00:21:04,406
They're taking it in sugar cubes,
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00:21:04,430 --> 00:21:06,116
it's being dropped into their punch.
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00:21:06,140 --> 00:21:08,201
Well truthfully my friend
I know nothing about it,
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00:21:08,225 --> 00:21:09,327
only what I read in the paper
416
00:21:09,351 --> 00:21:12,414
or what I see on television
and that's about all.
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00:21:12,438 --> 00:21:15,167
We gotta do something about
this, don't you think so?
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00:21:15,191 --> 00:21:16,871
But I don't know, I don't know with these.
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00:21:19,528 --> 00:21:20,797
I've become a favorite topic
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00:21:20,821 --> 00:21:23,633
of conversation almost everywhere.
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00:21:23,657 --> 00:21:25,510
At the mere mention of
my three letter name
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00:21:25,534 --> 00:21:27,846
is enough to send certain rioters running
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00:21:27,870 --> 00:21:31,123
to turn out sure selling
articles on how horrible I am.
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00:21:32,249 --> 00:21:35,103
As publishers know I'm good copy.
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00:21:35,127 --> 00:21:36,855
And since there's so much information
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00:21:36,879 --> 00:21:39,691
and misinformation about me it's
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00:21:39,715 --> 00:21:42,426
easy to keep the LSD pot boiling.
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00:21:56,690 --> 00:21:58,543
Well that sort of thing is bad for
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00:21:58,567 --> 00:22:01,671
my image as the advertising people say.
430
00:22:01,695 --> 00:22:04,216
Sensational, sure fire in the paper backs
431
00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,618
but so much of it lacks
the saving virtue of truth.
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00:22:08,786 --> 00:22:11,473
There hasn't been a case reported yet
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00:22:11,497 --> 00:22:12,998
where I poisoned anyone.
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00:22:20,172 --> 00:22:22,651
But speaking frankly a
lot of my most ardent
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00:22:22,675 --> 00:22:25,821
supporters are bad for my image to.
436
00:22:25,845 --> 00:22:28,532
Like these tree clowns
from Southern California
437
00:22:28,556 --> 00:22:29,574
who are planning the beginning
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00:22:29,598 --> 00:22:32,142
of something they call acid city.
439
00:22:33,769 --> 00:22:35,205
So that's the scene.
440
00:22:35,229 --> 00:22:36,998
FolLks like these who love me
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00:22:37,022 --> 00:22:39,525
and think I belong in
everyone's breakfast cereal.
442
00:22:40,568 --> 00:22:43,296
And way over in the other
direction the fright boys
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00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:46,949
with their sure sell
magazines and comic books.
444
00:22:48,117 --> 00:22:50,095
Things being what they are you really
445
00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:52,746
can't blame me for wanting
to put the record straight.
446
00:22:53,747 --> 00:22:56,667
It is as they say time for the facts.
447
00:22:57,918 --> 00:22:58,918
High time.
448
00:22:59,795 --> 00:23:02,548
It's hard really
to put it in word form.
449
00:23:03,716 --> 00:23:05,443
You can't really tell
a person what it's like
450
00:23:05,467 --> 00:23:08,137
unless you've had the
experience for yourself.
451
00:23:09,221 --> 00:23:14,286
It just, well it's different.
452
00:23:14,310 --> 00:23:16,788
Someone like John
Glen trying to explain
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00:23:16,812 --> 00:23:18,582
what he saw in outer space,
454
00:23:18,606 --> 00:23:21,209
I mean it's a very personal thing.
455
00:23:21,233 --> 00:23:23,193
It not easy to describe.
456
00:23:25,821 --> 00:23:28,157
No I'm not easy to describe.
457
00:23:29,199 --> 00:23:31,011
I'm a complicated thing
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00:23:31,035 --> 00:23:34,455
and I'm here in complicated
times and in complicated places.
459
00:23:35,706 --> 00:23:38,334
But now let me tell you what I really am.
460
00:23:39,293 --> 00:23:41,271
And what I really do.
461
00:23:41,295 --> 00:23:43,440
Chemically I look like this.
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00:23:43,464 --> 00:23:46,967
Atoms of oxygen linked with
carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen.
463
00:23:47,885 --> 00:23:51,055
Much more complicated then
some people seem to think.
464
00:23:52,181 --> 00:23:54,284
In fact the slightest chemical structure
465
00:23:54,308 --> 00:23:57,996
may result in profound
changes in my potency.
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00:23:58,020 --> 00:24:01,231
As certain black armature
chemists have found out.
467
00:24:02,942 --> 00:24:05,670
Actually I'm not very
spectacular to look at.
468
00:24:05,694 --> 00:24:08,280
I'm colorless, odorless and tasteless.
469
00:24:09,198 --> 00:24:11,450
In fact I'm a kind of a nothing.
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00:24:14,244 --> 00:24:16,473
But I'm one of the most powerful nothings
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00:24:16,497 --> 00:24:18,499
that ever came down the chemical road.
472
00:24:19,500 --> 00:24:23,379
Just one of my drops can be
enough for 500 average doses.
473
00:24:24,546 --> 00:24:27,150
I'm so powerful that I
exert an effect in doses
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00:24:27,174 --> 00:24:31,011
smaller than such potent drugs
as strychnine or cyanide.
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00:24:32,096 --> 00:24:35,283
My discoverer found that out back in 1943
476
00:24:35,307 --> 00:24:38,477
when he accidentally inhaled
a microscopic spec of me
477
00:24:39,478 --> 00:24:41,730
and then took to his
bed with hallucinations.
478
00:24:43,148 --> 00:24:45,401
How can I tell you how
really powerful I am?
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00:24:46,318 --> 00:24:48,380
The head of a pin can
hold enough of me to send
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00:24:48,404 --> 00:24:50,698
a room full of people out of their minds.
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00:24:51,699 --> 00:24:54,928
A dose for one, a point of a pin holds
482
00:24:54,952 --> 00:24:56,453
plenty for a solo trip.
483
00:24:57,955 --> 00:25:00,892
20 doses can be put under a stamp,
484
00:25:00,916 --> 00:25:04,420
an eye dropper can contain
enough for 10,000 doses.
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00:25:05,963 --> 00:25:07,565
I'm measured in millionths of a gram
486
00:25:07,589 --> 00:25:10,276
called micro rams, or gammas.
487
00:25:10,300 --> 00:25:12,988
So tiny that even a
precision laboratory scales
488
00:25:13,012 --> 00:25:16,700
like this can't begin to
measure me accurately.
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00:25:16,724 --> 00:25:18,493
With just a very few micro grams
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00:25:18,517 --> 00:25:22,831
of me inside the body colors,
shapes, smells, textures,
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00:25:22,855 --> 00:25:24,833
the whole range of
things that can be seen,
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00:25:24,857 --> 00:25:26,042
heard, smelled, touched,
493
00:25:26,066 --> 00:25:29,087
and tasted take on incredible distortions
494
00:25:29,111 --> 00:25:31,613
which seem absolutely and totally real.
495
00:25:32,781 --> 00:25:35,593
With just a few micro grams of me
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00:25:35,617 --> 00:25:38,596
all sorts of hallucinations are possible.
497
00:25:38,620 --> 00:25:40,140
I couldn't see
anything except colors
498
00:25:40,164 --> 00:25:41,933
and I thought well you
know this is supposed
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00:25:41,957 --> 00:25:43,226
to be reality but it wasn't,
500
00:25:43,250 --> 00:25:47,355
it wasn't anything except just
things that weren't object.
501
00:25:47,379 --> 00:25:48,606
You know after a while
you don't know how you are
502
00:25:48,630 --> 00:25:50,316
and you don't know who
the other person is.
503
00:25:50,340 --> 00:25:52,235
Happening, and it's happening so fast
504
00:25:52,259 --> 00:25:54,219
and you can't stop it and you just
505
00:25:55,262 --> 00:25:56,614
can't do anything, you just have
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00:25:56,638 --> 00:25:59,892
to stay there and go through it.
507
00:26:00,934 --> 00:26:04,706
With my help all
kinds of things are possible.
508
00:26:04,730 --> 00:26:06,249
The most dangerous act can look
509
00:26:06,273 --> 00:26:08,918
attractive and easy to accomplish.
510
00:26:08,942 --> 00:26:10,462
Because I can make those sparkling
511
00:26:10,486 --> 00:26:13,006
lights look colorful and inviting.
512
00:26:13,030 --> 00:26:15,091
A moving tapestry which can beckon
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00:26:15,115 --> 00:26:17,701
and lure a traveler to join them.
514
00:26:29,755 --> 00:26:31,399
Well that's just a rough idea
515
00:26:31,423 --> 00:26:33,759
of what a few micrograms of me can do.
516
00:26:35,302 --> 00:26:36,279
How about the same amount that
517
00:26:36,303 --> 00:26:39,014
you saw on the point of the pin, remember?
518
00:26:40,808 --> 00:26:42,368
But in spite of my overwhelming
519
00:26:42,392 --> 00:26:46,539
power I have yet to kill
anyone from an overdose.
520
00:26:46,563 --> 00:26:49,399
They don't think I'm
philologically addicting.
521
00:26:50,567 --> 00:26:52,921
And when I'm swallowed I disappear
522
00:26:52,945 --> 00:26:54,506
because they haven't yet perfected
523
00:26:54,530 --> 00:26:57,533
a good field test to
detect me inside the body.
524
00:26:59,201 --> 00:27:00,887
All together I'm one of the most
525
00:27:00,911 --> 00:27:03,664
perplexingly powerful drugs conceivable.
526
00:27:05,332 --> 00:27:07,560
You're doctor can't prescribe me,
527
00:27:07,584 --> 00:27:09,604
your druggist can't sell me.
528
00:27:09,628 --> 00:27:12,107
And very few scientists are
able or willing to test me
529
00:27:12,131 --> 00:27:15,193
and the pharmaceutical
companies won't make me.
530
00:27:15,217 --> 00:27:18,071
And about the only labs
I show up in anymore
531
00:27:18,095 --> 00:27:20,198
are the crime labs in police headquarters
532
00:27:20,222 --> 00:27:23,642
because I am so perplexingly
powerful that I'm illegal.
533
00:27:24,685 --> 00:27:28,998
But as narcotic officers know
so well I keep showing up.
534
00:27:29,022 --> 00:27:30,959
In spite of the laws.
535
00:27:30,983 --> 00:27:32,919
Because if you have the right ingredients
536
00:27:32,943 --> 00:27:35,797
I'm not too hard to manufacture.
537
00:27:35,821 --> 00:27:37,757
And the black market boys have set up
538
00:27:37,781 --> 00:27:41,678
their armature laboratories
in some strategic locations.
539
00:27:41,702 --> 00:27:43,721
Like this one, severed with a warrant
540
00:27:43,745 --> 00:27:45,664
and then raided just a while ago.
541
00:27:47,207 --> 00:27:52,171
Armature acid made in armature
labs by armature chemists.
542
00:27:52,462 --> 00:27:54,399
When I'm compounded in dirty labs
543
00:27:54,423 --> 00:27:56,818
like this it isn't surprising
544
00:27:56,842 --> 00:27:59,720
that I'm often contaminated
with other substances.
545
00:28:00,721 --> 00:28:01,739
On the consumer level that means
546
00:28:01,763 --> 00:28:04,492
that when an LSD travel agent sells
547
00:28:04,516 --> 00:28:06,995
a cap or two the customer can't trust
548
00:28:07,019 --> 00:28:10,147
the label because there isn't any label.
549
00:28:12,107 --> 00:28:14,627
So how do yo know what you're getting?
550
00:28:14,651 --> 00:28:16,212
You don't know unless you take it
551
00:28:16,236 --> 00:28:18,006
whether it's good or it's bad,
552
00:28:18,030 --> 00:28:20,008
you just have to trust your source.
553
00:28:20,032 --> 00:28:22,159
Well when you
take it you find out.
554
00:28:25,037 --> 00:28:30,059
Good acid, bad acid
but always unpredictable acid.
555
00:28:30,083 --> 00:28:32,836
I'm around, part of the scene as I said.
556
00:28:33,754 --> 00:28:38,175
And on streets like this,
and this, and this, and this.
557
00:28:41,136 --> 00:28:45,116
Transactions involving me
take place all the time.
558
00:28:45,140 --> 00:28:47,619
Illegal of course but my tabs
559
00:28:47,643 --> 00:28:50,079
and caps and sugar cubes that dissolve in
560
00:28:50,103 --> 00:28:53,899
your mind as well as your
mouth are selling everyday.
561
00:28:58,528 --> 00:29:02,926
So drop a cap of me and
join the mind expanding
562
00:29:02,950 --> 00:29:05,803
world where colors and sounds and smells
563
00:29:05,827 --> 00:29:07,847
and tastes and people all take
564
00:29:07,871 --> 00:29:10,082
on new dimensions and new qualities.
565
00:29:10,999 --> 00:29:13,835
I'm the worlds original
instant relief drug.
566
00:29:15,212 --> 00:29:16,755
Drop a cap on me man.
567
00:29:18,090 --> 00:29:19,090
And drop out.
568
00:29:20,300 --> 00:29:25,073
But watch it because the
trip can be a trap to.
569
00:29:25,097 --> 00:29:28,743
You never know where a
ticket with me will take you.
570
00:29:28,767 --> 00:29:30,245
Where are you?
571
00:29:30,269 --> 00:29:31,496
Stop that man.
572
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:32,330
Where are you man?
573
00:29:32,354 --> 00:29:33,354
Stop that.
574
00:29:35,357 --> 00:29:36,417
Let me give you an idea,
575
00:29:36,441 --> 00:29:40,737
just the barest idea of what
a bum trip it can be like.
576
00:29:41,863 --> 00:29:45,117
Voices curtesy of those who've been there.
577
00:29:58,714 --> 00:29:59,714
God no!
578
00:30:00,590 --> 00:30:01,633
No, no, no!
579
00:30:04,511 --> 00:30:07,740
Get me out of this terrible place!
580
00:30:07,764 --> 00:30:10,034
Get me out of here!
581
00:30:10,058 --> 00:30:11,058
Help me!
582
00:30:12,936 --> 00:30:14,146
Oh God help me!
583
00:30:17,316 --> 00:30:20,211
Utterly fantastic,
utterly terrifying,
584
00:30:20,235 --> 00:30:24,340
utterly powerful and
utterly unpredictable.
585
00:30:24,364 --> 00:30:26,592
I've even been know to carry a passenger
586
00:30:26,616 --> 00:30:29,661
inside the pulsing redness
of his own beating heart.
587
00:30:31,163 --> 00:30:32,163
And leave him there.
588
00:30:37,794 --> 00:30:41,316
Oh most people survive
even a really bad trip.
589
00:30:41,340 --> 00:30:42,276
And with an injection of one
590
00:30:42,300 --> 00:30:44,235
of the most powerful tranquilizers
591
00:30:44,259 --> 00:30:46,887
known they can get safely back to reality.
592
00:30:48,347 --> 00:30:49,347
Just relax.
593
00:30:51,308 --> 00:30:52,392
But not all.
594
00:30:53,477 --> 00:30:54,477
Not all.
595
00:30:55,479 --> 00:30:56,914
Because you see it's true
596
00:30:56,938 --> 00:30:59,125
that trippers have injured themselves.
597
00:30:59,149 --> 00:31:00,567
Sometimes seriously.
598
00:31:06,573 --> 00:31:09,409
And one of the most terrifying
things of all is true to.
599
00:31:10,285 --> 00:31:11,846
A bum trips hallucinations can
600
00:31:11,870 --> 00:31:15,475
recur at anytime and all
their original intensity
601
00:31:15,499 --> 00:31:17,959
up to a year after the original dose.
602
00:31:19,211 --> 00:31:21,171
Some call it an after flash.
603
00:31:22,047 --> 00:31:23,465
And it's not fun at all.
604
00:31:24,549 --> 00:31:26,611
Once I've been swallowed it's practically
605
00:31:26,635 --> 00:31:29,822
impossible to trace me inside the body.
606
00:31:29,846 --> 00:31:31,699
So not even the coroner knows how
607
00:31:31,723 --> 00:31:35,244
to tell whether to not I
was apart of this scene.
608
00:31:35,268 --> 00:31:36,812
Twisting the drivers brain cells
609
00:31:37,938 --> 00:31:40,273
until he tripped out
through the windshield.
610
00:31:45,237 --> 00:31:46,839
LSD rescue.
611
00:31:46,863 --> 00:31:48,758
And it's true that the effects
612
00:31:48,782 --> 00:31:51,094
and after effects of bad trips can be
613
00:31:51,118 --> 00:31:53,137
so sever that special organizations
614
00:31:53,161 --> 00:31:57,642
like San Francisco's LSD
rescue have been set up.
615
00:31:57,666 --> 00:31:58,666
This guy knows.
616
00:31:59,334 --> 00:32:02,939
He called LSD rescue 24 hours ago.
617
00:32:02,963 --> 00:32:06,442
And he's just about got
himself under control now.
618
00:32:06,466 --> 00:32:10,512
But for an increasing number
of trippers this to is true.
619
00:32:11,471 --> 00:32:13,741
Because the ultimate destination with me
620
00:32:13,765 --> 00:32:17,561
can be and has been here in the morgue.
621
00:32:18,812 --> 00:32:20,772
LSD user hangs self.
622
00:32:22,149 --> 00:32:24,651
LSD user commits suicide.
623
00:32:26,027 --> 00:32:28,155
Yes, it's true.
624
00:32:29,531 --> 00:32:33,010
And so the last boys heard
of the ultimate destination
625
00:32:33,034 --> 00:32:37,998
can be and has been the autopsy surgeons.
626
00:32:38,582 --> 00:32:40,852
The body is that of a well developed,
627
00:32:40,876 --> 00:32:44,689
well nourished teenage male,
appearing the stated age.
628
00:32:44,713 --> 00:32:46,858
Rigor mortis is present throughout
629
00:32:46,882 --> 00:32:50,570
and livor is present over the
dorsal aspects of the body.
630
00:32:50,594 --> 00:32:55,158
And so I'm depressed
and I'm embarrassed.
631
00:32:55,182 --> 00:32:57,618
Because so many of the worlds odd balls
632
00:32:57,642 --> 00:33:00,061
have adopted me as their special gimmick.
633
00:33:01,104 --> 00:33:04,542
I am too powerful and I am too important
634
00:33:04,566 --> 00:33:08,320
to join these con artist
as part of acid city.
635
00:33:09,446 --> 00:33:12,574
Portrait of a traveler
about to take a trip,
636
00:33:13,492 --> 00:33:15,452
and his trip is just now starting.
637
00:33:16,953 --> 00:33:18,431
He's stuck with me now and what
638
00:33:18,455 --> 00:33:20,665
we may do together for the next few hours.
639
00:33:21,791 --> 00:33:23,543
I'm not vicious by nature.
640
00:33:25,253 --> 00:33:27,440
But I'm not harmless either.
641
00:33:27,464 --> 00:33:29,650
When you tinker with
your brain by altering
642
00:33:29,674 --> 00:33:31,152
it's natural processes with
643
00:33:31,176 --> 00:33:33,637
an unknown dose of an unknown drug
644
00:33:34,930 --> 00:33:37,015
you have to take your chances.
645
00:33:39,601 --> 00:33:42,330
But curiously enough the kind of trip
646
00:33:42,354 --> 00:33:45,732
he'll take won't depend upon
my chemistry as much as his.
647
00:33:47,526 --> 00:33:50,296
Because you see it's my real secret
648
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:53,966
that I strip away the
layers and layers of ego.
649
00:33:53,990 --> 00:33:56,660
The protective security
blanket that shelters you all.
650
00:33:58,495 --> 00:34:00,598
And I can bring him into the incredible
651
00:34:00,622 --> 00:34:04,417
world of his own deep brain, dream scape.
652
00:34:05,335 --> 00:34:07,855
Of course when he actually gets
653
00:34:07,879 --> 00:34:11,925
there he may be terrified by what he sees.
654
00:34:13,301 --> 00:34:14,469
But that's his problem.
655
00:34:16,221 --> 00:34:17,222
Not mine.
656
00:34:19,724 --> 00:34:21,494
It can't happen to me,
657
00:34:21,518 --> 00:34:23,412
that's what you said wasn't it Bill?
658
00:34:23,436 --> 00:34:26,958
But it can and just did and
you're not quite sure why.
659
00:34:26,982 --> 00:34:28,650
Let's see if we can find out.
660
00:34:29,609 --> 00:34:31,587
Not too many minutes ago that young woman
661
00:34:31,611 --> 00:34:33,756
and her child were happy and healthy.
662
00:34:33,780 --> 00:34:37,343
Now they're young bodies are
crushed and wracked with pain.
663
00:34:37,367 --> 00:34:39,929
Maybe they'll live and maybe they'll die.
664
00:34:39,953 --> 00:34:42,515
But one things sure, the next few minutes,
665
00:34:42,539 --> 00:34:45,142
hours, or maybe days their lives will hang
666
00:34:45,166 --> 00:34:47,311
in the balance and you'll have to live
667
00:34:47,335 --> 00:34:48,688
out those minutes, hours,
668
00:34:48,712 --> 00:34:51,047
and days knowing you were responsible.
669
00:34:52,007 --> 00:34:54,360
The police will measure
out the skid marks,
670
00:34:54,384 --> 00:34:56,195
determine where you applied the brakes,
671
00:34:56,219 --> 00:34:57,613
give you a sobriety test
672
00:34:57,637 --> 00:34:59,282
and it will all go into a report
673
00:34:59,306 --> 00:35:00,992
that will be reviewed in court.
674
00:35:01,016 --> 00:35:02,660
Maybe you'll be found guilty,
675
00:35:02,684 --> 00:35:04,745
maybe you won't but you'll never
676
00:35:04,769 --> 00:35:06,664
out live the memory of waiting.
677
00:35:06,688 --> 00:35:08,457
Waiting to find out if the mother
678
00:35:08,481 --> 00:35:10,358
and daughter will live or die.
679
00:35:11,443 --> 00:35:13,504
Then the police are at you with questions.
680
00:35:13,528 --> 00:35:15,506
Where had you been, had you been drinking,
681
00:35:15,530 --> 00:35:17,633
will you submit to a sobriety test?
682
00:35:17,657 --> 00:35:20,511
Sure why not, after all
you'd only had a few beers.
683
00:35:20,535 --> 00:35:23,681
You're not drunk, of
course your not drunk.
684
00:35:23,705 --> 00:35:25,933
Not in the common sense of the word.
685
00:35:25,957 --> 00:35:29,061
But you're driving ability
was measurably impaired.
686
00:35:29,085 --> 00:35:31,397
How could it be, you feel fine.
687
00:35:31,421 --> 00:35:32,398
But what you didn't know was
688
00:35:32,422 --> 00:35:35,151
that it only takes a few beers to take
689
00:35:35,175 --> 00:35:37,737
the keen edge off your driving performance
690
00:35:37,761 --> 00:35:39,679
and slow your reaction time.
691
00:35:41,264 --> 00:35:44,160
When ethyl alcohol,
which is the foundation
692
00:35:44,184 --> 00:35:47,204
of all liquor enters
the circulatory system
693
00:35:47,228 --> 00:35:50,374
through the stomach it's
oxidized by the liver
694
00:35:50,398 --> 00:35:53,836
and turned into heat energy
in the form of calories.
695
00:35:53,860 --> 00:35:56,464
Unfortunately the liver can only process
696
00:35:56,488 --> 00:35:59,967
about three eighths of an
ounce of alcohol per hour.
697
00:35:59,991 --> 00:36:02,053
That's about the amount in three quarters
698
00:36:02,077 --> 00:36:05,222
of a shot glass of whisky or a short beer.
699
00:36:05,246 --> 00:36:07,308
When more alcohol is taken the liver
700
00:36:07,332 --> 00:36:10,061
is unable to process it and it passes into
701
00:36:10,085 --> 00:36:13,564
the blood stream and is carried
to all parts of the body.
702
00:36:13,588 --> 00:36:15,524
As the percentage of alcohol begins
703
00:36:15,548 --> 00:36:17,485
to build up in the blood stream
704
00:36:17,509 --> 00:36:19,362
the first part of your nervous system
705
00:36:19,386 --> 00:36:21,822
to be affected is your judgment center
706
00:36:21,846 --> 00:36:24,700
located in the frontal lobe of the brain.
707
00:36:24,724 --> 00:36:26,494
This is the area of the brain
708
00:36:26,518 --> 00:36:28,645
that determines right from wrong.
709
00:36:29,521 --> 00:36:32,124
You see alcohol is not a stimulant,
710
00:36:32,148 --> 00:36:34,669
it's a sedative, a depressant.
711
00:36:34,693 --> 00:36:36,462
Oh sure the first few drinks
712
00:36:36,486 --> 00:36:37,922
make you feel more alive
713
00:36:37,946 --> 00:36:41,467
and responsive but actually
as the alcohol enters
714
00:36:41,491 --> 00:36:44,804
the blood stream it slows
down normal operation
715
00:36:44,828 --> 00:36:46,472
of the heart and nerve centers
716
00:36:46,496 --> 00:36:50,309
and depresses the inhibitory
mechanisms of the brain.
717
00:36:50,333 --> 00:36:53,396
It removes inhabitants
and social restraints.
718
00:36:53,420 --> 00:36:56,399
This is what gives us the
feeling of stimulation.
719
00:36:56,423 --> 00:37:00,319
You have more assurance
but less self control.
720
00:37:00,343 --> 00:37:03,948
It may start innocently enough,
a few beers with the gang.
721
00:37:03,972 --> 00:37:06,617
It is a social custom of our time.
722
00:37:06,641 --> 00:37:09,078
But today that social custom is invading
723
00:37:09,102 --> 00:37:12,373
our society at a younger
age then ever before.
724
00:37:12,397 --> 00:37:14,709
The few drinks that the social drinker may
725
00:37:14,733 --> 00:37:17,503
take don't seem to
present a serious danger
726
00:37:17,527 --> 00:37:18,879
but the trouble with drinking
727
00:37:18,903 --> 00:37:21,924
and driving is that it is always too late
728
00:37:21,948 --> 00:37:23,801
when the emergency arises
729
00:37:23,825 --> 00:37:26,995
and our reactions are too
slow to avoid disaster.
730
00:37:28,163 --> 00:37:30,224
It is readily agreed by authorities
731
00:37:30,248 --> 00:37:32,601
and tests that driving skills
732
00:37:32,625 --> 00:37:34,937
are to a degree a matter of habit.
733
00:37:34,961 --> 00:37:38,107
Built up over a long periods of practice.
734
00:37:38,131 --> 00:37:39,900
It has also bee proven that
735
00:37:39,924 --> 00:37:42,027
the latest driving skills mastered
736
00:37:42,051 --> 00:37:45,740
at the first to go when under
the influence of liquor.
737
00:37:45,764 --> 00:37:48,784
There fore the older,
more experienced driver
738
00:37:48,808 --> 00:37:50,578
is less likely to have his skills
739
00:37:50,602 --> 00:37:54,999
seriously impair than the
younger, less experienced driver.
740
00:37:55,023 --> 00:37:57,626
One must be able to
judge speed and distance,
741
00:37:57,650 --> 00:38:00,713
follow traffic patterns,
make necessary adjustments
742
00:38:00,737 --> 00:38:03,591
and be able to react
quickly to emergencies.
743
00:38:03,615 --> 00:38:05,593
After a few drinks the good driver
744
00:38:05,617 --> 00:38:07,762
is no longer capable of doing this.
745
00:38:07,786 --> 00:38:09,638
He has become a poor driver
746
00:38:09,662 --> 00:38:12,123
and is a danger to himself and others.
747
00:38:17,337 --> 00:38:19,523
This happened to you, didn't it Bill?
748
00:38:19,547 --> 00:38:22,193
Sure you passed your sobriety test,
749
00:38:22,217 --> 00:38:25,446
they can't convict you on
drunk driving can they?
750
00:38:25,470 --> 00:38:27,031
But you'll always have to face
751
00:38:27,055 --> 00:38:29,200
the fact that those beach party beers
752
00:38:29,224 --> 00:38:32,036
were a contributing
factor in your accident.
753
00:38:32,060 --> 00:38:34,205
If you hadn't had then you might
754
00:38:34,229 --> 00:38:37,082
have hit the break pedal
a second or two earlier.
755
00:38:37,106 --> 00:38:38,918
Those skid marks on the asphalt
756
00:38:38,942 --> 00:38:40,795
would have stopped on the right side,
757
00:38:40,819 --> 00:38:44,215
not the wrong side of that
young woman and her daughter.
758
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:46,133
The report just came through.
759
00:38:46,157 --> 00:38:48,844
The little girl died on
the way to the hospital
760
00:38:48,868 --> 00:38:51,680
and the mother will
probably never walk again.
761
00:38:51,704 --> 00:38:53,641
No matter how you're trial comes out
762
00:38:53,665 --> 00:38:56,769
you'll always have to live with
those facts won't you Bill?
763
00:38:56,793 --> 00:39:00,147
A child dead, a mother crippled.
764
00:39:00,171 --> 00:39:03,466
Not a pleasant future to
face at the age of 18.
765
00:39:07,262 --> 00:39:10,533
They come in all
different shapes and sizes.
766
00:39:10,557 --> 00:39:13,351
And range in age from teeny hoppers.
767
00:39:14,811 --> 00:39:16,622
To 19 year old.
768
00:39:16,646 --> 00:39:18,666
But just like in the old days teenagers
769
00:39:18,690 --> 00:39:21,043
have always shared one thing in common.
770
00:39:21,067 --> 00:39:22,753
They've always found a unique way
771
00:39:22,777 --> 00:39:25,572
to express themselves as individuals.
772
00:39:26,865 --> 00:39:31,119
And this of course would be
called group self expression.
773
00:39:32,620 --> 00:39:35,432
Today just like always clothes have been
774
00:39:35,456 --> 00:39:38,185
the groovy way of really
expressing yourself.
775
00:39:38,209 --> 00:39:39,854
And teenagers can always be counted
776
00:39:39,878 --> 00:39:44,632
on to do something very real
and very self expressive.
777
00:39:46,050 --> 00:39:48,946
There are some girls who
express themselves simple look.
778
00:39:48,970 --> 00:39:52,533
Others do so in highly feminized slacks.
779
00:39:52,557 --> 00:39:56,519
And for hemlines well this may
be the long and short of it.
780
00:39:57,770 --> 00:40:00,273
But how much shorter can a skirt get?
781
00:40:04,027 --> 00:40:06,422
Hair has always been very important.
782
00:40:06,446 --> 00:40:08,114
Yes even with boys.
783
00:40:09,616 --> 00:40:13,828
It's been very short, and
even Longer than a Beetles.
784
00:40:15,622 --> 00:40:17,141
But girls have always had a lot more
785
00:40:17,165 --> 00:40:19,977
ways to express themselves
through their hair.
786
00:40:20,001 --> 00:40:22,897
Why they can change it's color completely.
787
00:40:22,921 --> 00:40:25,649
And they can even
simplify the entire thing
788
00:40:25,673 --> 00:40:27,484
and just go out to a store
789
00:40:27,508 --> 00:40:30,988
and buy some hair in any color they like.
790
00:40:31,012 --> 00:40:32,740
They can curl it.
791
00:40:32,764 --> 00:40:33,806
They can wave it.
792
00:40:34,807 --> 00:40:38,853
And they can even iron it so
it comes out nice and straight.
793
00:40:39,729 --> 00:40:41,064
Split ends and all.
794
00:40:41,940 --> 00:40:44,335
Certain hair styles,
they make it necessary
795
00:40:44,359 --> 00:40:46,295
to take a good look to see which
796
00:40:46,319 --> 00:40:48,488
is the girl and which is the boy.
797
00:40:50,073 --> 00:40:51,658
That's not true for all boys.
798
00:40:52,825 --> 00:40:54,219
Especially for those who are trying
799
00:40:54,243 --> 00:40:56,704
so desperately to prove their manhood.
800
00:41:07,298 --> 00:41:11,487
However the more personal
the more individual way
801
00:41:11,511 --> 00:41:14,281
to prove you're man hood
was to play chicken.
802
00:41:14,305 --> 00:41:15,824
And at one time a chicken run was
803
00:41:15,848 --> 00:41:18,035
considered the best way to prove manhood.
804
00:41:18,059 --> 00:41:19,727
Dead or alive.
805
00:41:30,238 --> 00:41:32,132
For girls the matter of being chicken
806
00:41:32,156 --> 00:41:36,011
and proving yourself as a
woman is still frequently based
807
00:41:36,035 --> 00:41:40,081
on accepting this kind of
dare from a so called friend.
808
00:41:43,918 --> 00:41:47,398
Yes even adults admit it,
growing up isn't easy.
809
00:41:47,422 --> 00:41:49,733
Especially if you're trying
to keep up with the dares
810
00:41:49,757 --> 00:41:52,927
and fads of some of the
more advanced trends.
811
00:41:54,178 --> 00:41:58,033
Two of the more advanced
fads have to do with drugs.
812
00:41:58,057 --> 00:41:59,994
So either you wanna be down with it,
813
00:42:00,018 --> 00:42:02,162
please just try it once okay?
814
00:42:02,186 --> 00:42:04,331
Now there's
a good argument for you.
815
00:42:04,355 --> 00:42:05,791
Why with the help of a good,
816
00:42:05,815 --> 00:42:08,752
kind friend you can be turned on,
817
00:42:08,776 --> 00:42:11,880
make the scene, blow grass, smoke reefers,
818
00:42:11,904 --> 00:42:14,758
or pot, joints, or Mary Jane's.
819
00:42:14,782 --> 00:42:16,844
Those are just a few of the cool,
820
00:42:16,868 --> 00:42:18,703
groovy names for marijuana.
821
00:42:19,912 --> 00:42:22,099
And if grass doesn't make it for you baby
822
00:42:22,123 --> 00:42:25,227
and especially if you need to be in.
823
00:42:25,251 --> 00:42:27,712
Well you can always drop a cap of acid.
824
00:42:29,964 --> 00:42:31,215
Now that's the real stuff.
825
00:42:32,425 --> 00:42:34,111
Very, very cool.
826
00:42:34,135 --> 00:42:35,720
Very, very groovy.
827
00:42:44,437 --> 00:42:46,290
Now everybody who takes it admits
828
00:42:46,314 --> 00:42:49,525
there is always a risk
of a bad trip, a bummer.
829
00:42:50,777 --> 00:42:53,404
A freak out, even a flip out.
830
00:42:54,822 --> 00:42:58,576
But why be lame baby,
give yourself real kick.
831
00:43:00,036 --> 00:43:01,287
Yes a kick in the head.
832
00:43:16,761 --> 00:43:19,865
What do Americas leading
scientists, doctors,
833
00:43:19,889 --> 00:43:23,476
and psychiatrists working
with people taking LSD say.
834
00:43:25,269 --> 00:43:27,456
As we see it from a typical Psychiatric
835
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:31,376
ward LSD is certainly
much more than a mere fad.
836
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:34,421
Right now we have over a
dozen people hospitalized
837
00:43:34,445 --> 00:43:36,215
because of acute symptoms resulting
838
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:38,116
directly from their taking LSD.
839
00:43:39,075 --> 00:43:41,512
Bizarre fatal accidents and suicides
840
00:43:41,536 --> 00:43:44,098
has also occurred in LSD users.
841
00:43:44,122 --> 00:43:47,893
Because of this we say
that LSD is not just a fad,
842
00:43:47,917 --> 00:43:51,522
people are seriously
disturbed, some even dead.
843
00:43:51,546 --> 00:43:55,234
It all began in a laboratory
very much like this one.
844
00:43:55,258 --> 00:43:57,986
In 1938 doctor Albert Hofmann
845
00:43:58,010 --> 00:44:00,739
in Switzerland was looking for new drugs
846
00:44:00,763 --> 00:44:02,890
in the treatment of migraine headaches.
847
00:44:03,808 --> 00:44:05,911
He had been studying substances
848
00:44:05,935 --> 00:44:09,063
that came from the mold
that grows on rye plants.
849
00:44:10,690 --> 00:44:12,626
Now it turned out that these substances
850
00:44:12,650 --> 00:44:16,171
were of no use in the treatment
of migraines headaches
851
00:44:16,195 --> 00:44:18,423
but subsequent investigations showed
852
00:44:18,447 --> 00:44:21,593
that they are very fascinating indeed
853
00:44:21,617 --> 00:44:25,222
in the changes they produce
in our mental state.
854
00:44:25,246 --> 00:44:29,560
Normal people react to LSD by seeing
855
00:44:29,584 --> 00:44:32,753
strange patterns of wildly moving colors.
856
00:44:46,893 --> 00:44:50,313
Time may appear to stand completely still.
857
00:44:56,611 --> 00:44:59,655
Faces may appear and then melt away.
858
00:45:15,213 --> 00:45:17,399
And at another times
the subject may recall
859
00:45:17,423 --> 00:45:20,485
with terrifying detail incidents
860
00:45:20,509 --> 00:45:22,511
that are long, long forgotten.
861
00:45:43,950 --> 00:45:46,178
At the same time there is often
862
00:45:46,202 --> 00:45:48,222
a loss of the normal cause
863
00:45:48,246 --> 00:45:49,973
and effect relationships
864
00:45:49,997 --> 00:45:52,601
of things going on in the environment.
865
00:45:52,625 --> 00:45:55,586
And this leads to a
distortion of judgment.
866
00:46:08,224 --> 00:46:10,661
Never the less in spite of the risks
867
00:46:10,685 --> 00:46:13,163
the word was out, LSD was it.
868
00:46:13,187 --> 00:46:16,500
One pill and all unhappiness would vanish.
869
00:46:16,524 --> 00:46:18,460
The real meaning of existence
870
00:46:18,484 --> 00:46:22,214
would become quickly clear, such nonsense.
871
00:46:22,238 --> 00:46:26,218
Parents deprived of
LSD did not understand.
872
00:46:26,242 --> 00:46:28,553
Many wild and very unscientific
873
00:46:28,577 --> 00:46:30,371
claims have been made about LSD.
874
00:46:31,789 --> 00:46:34,351
I've spoken to a large
number of young people
875
00:46:34,375 --> 00:46:37,253
asking them why do you take LSD?
876
00:46:38,546 --> 00:46:40,482
They've given me a variety of answers
877
00:46:40,506 --> 00:46:42,901
the most frequent are the following.
878
00:46:42,925 --> 00:46:45,779
I took it the first time
because I was curious.
879
00:46:45,803 --> 00:46:48,323
Under LSD gods not a far away idea
880
00:46:48,347 --> 00:46:49,449
he's something that's right
881
00:46:49,473 --> 00:46:51,243
inside you that you're experiencing now.
882
00:46:51,267 --> 00:46:53,245
I took LSD for a kick.
883
00:46:53,269 --> 00:46:55,163
Man LSD is like a vitamin for
884
00:46:55,187 --> 00:46:59,084
the brain, I mean to expand your mind.
885
00:46:59,108 --> 00:47:01,902
LSD stimulated creativity in the brain.
886
00:47:02,862 --> 00:47:06,574
In other words it expands your
887
00:47:08,617 --> 00:47:11,287
thought processes so you can take in more.
888
00:47:12,747 --> 00:47:15,100
We gave a series of 50 tests
889
00:47:15,124 --> 00:47:17,960
to people before and after LSD.
890
00:47:19,170 --> 00:47:22,774
We found that at the end of six months
891
00:47:22,798 --> 00:47:24,675
following their LSD taking
892
00:47:26,469 --> 00:47:30,449
that they were no more creative when
893
00:47:30,473 --> 00:47:35,436
we measured them then they
were before they took the LSD.
894
00:47:35,603 --> 00:47:39,082
However their feeling, their inner
895
00:47:39,106 --> 00:47:44,070
feeling of subjective
of creativity was there.
896
00:47:44,945 --> 00:47:50,010
This means perhaps that they may have
897
00:47:50,034 --> 00:47:54,598
an impression of creativity
but not creativity itself.
898
00:47:54,622 --> 00:47:57,517
Creativity is 90 percent perspiration
899
00:47:57,541 --> 00:48:00,520
and only ten percent inspiration.
900
00:48:00,544 --> 00:48:04,507
And LSD doesn't enhance
ones desire to perspire.
901
00:48:05,466 --> 00:48:07,194
LSD is a really groovy way
902
00:48:07,218 --> 00:48:09,404
to find out about the things around you.
903
00:48:09,428 --> 00:48:11,782
LSD helps me understand
the whole world better.
904
00:48:11,806 --> 00:48:14,951
LSD helps you to
understand your own mind,
905
00:48:14,975 --> 00:48:16,787
it releases your mind to you.
906
00:48:16,811 --> 00:48:20,165
LSD us a way about
finding out about yourself.
907
00:48:20,189 --> 00:48:23,251
While there are many things
that we don't know about LSD
908
00:48:23,275 --> 00:48:25,253
there are few that we do know
909
00:48:25,277 --> 00:48:28,090
and perhaps the most
important one that we do know
910
00:48:28,114 --> 00:48:30,801
is that it is absolutely unpredictable
911
00:48:30,825 --> 00:48:33,178
who will have a bad experience from LSD
912
00:48:33,202 --> 00:48:34,453
or when they will have it.
913
00:48:35,454 --> 00:48:36,890
Some people have a bad experience
914
00:48:36,914 --> 00:48:38,850
the first time they take the drug,
915
00:48:38,874 --> 00:48:41,603
others take it 30, 60, or even
916
00:48:41,627 --> 00:48:43,855
100 times before their bad trip.
917
00:48:43,879 --> 00:48:47,401
And the bad trip, instant insanity.
918
00:48:47,425 --> 00:48:50,010
Often a never never land of no return.
919
00:48:58,686 --> 00:49:02,916
No, it's coming, no get
away, get away, get away.
920
00:49:02,940 --> 00:49:03,751
Don't worry.
921
00:49:03,775 --> 00:49:06,795
No, no, get away, get away.
922
00:49:06,819 --> 00:49:08,588
It's coming for me, take me away.
923
00:49:08,612 --> 00:49:09,905
No, no, get away.
924
00:49:20,624 --> 00:49:21,917
Gotta help me, help me.
925
00:49:22,918 --> 00:49:26,815
This girl is obviously
acutely disturbed.
926
00:49:26,839 --> 00:49:30,301
She will be in the hospital
for a few week or a few months.
927
00:49:31,260 --> 00:49:34,614
The chances are that
she will get well again.
928
00:49:34,638 --> 00:49:36,932
At least well enough to leave the ward.
929
00:49:38,267 --> 00:49:40,871
Whether she will ever be the same again,
930
00:49:40,895 --> 00:49:44,749
have the same personality,
the same ambitions,
931
00:49:44,773 --> 00:49:48,044
the same abilities to work, to love,
932
00:49:48,068 --> 00:49:49,612
to get along with other people,
933
00:49:50,613 --> 00:49:52,823
that we won't know for along time.
934
00:49:53,782 --> 00:49:56,261
Some others who take LSD will
935
00:49:56,285 --> 00:49:58,329
have even more tragic freakouts.
936
00:49:59,246 --> 00:50:01,749
And there's no way to tell
which ones these will be.
937
00:50:03,751 --> 00:50:05,336
Lose all kind of reality.
938
00:50:07,671 --> 00:50:11,526
Step into flight from
cliffs and high windows.
939
00:50:11,550 --> 00:50:15,554
With real life, permanent,
non psychedelic.
940
00:50:16,847 --> 00:50:18,992
Other trippers, an attempt to merge
941
00:50:19,016 --> 00:50:22,353
their beings with large automobiles.
942
00:50:24,772 --> 00:50:26,458
Unfortunate not because LSD
943
00:50:26,482 --> 00:50:28,960
is wicked or sinful of itself
944
00:50:28,984 --> 00:50:32,881
but because it is such an
extremely dangerous drug.
945
00:50:32,905 --> 00:50:35,884
A drug who's effects are so unpredictable.
946
00:50:35,908 --> 00:50:40,746
A drug which so often causes
sever long lasting damage.
947
00:50:51,966 --> 00:50:53,717
It's up to you.
948
00:50:56,554 --> 00:51:00,724
Taking LSD is much the same
as playing Russian roulette.
949
00:51:03,894 --> 00:51:05,938
You spin the barrel with one bullet in it.
950
00:51:07,940 --> 00:51:09,024
And you take a chance.
951
00:51:12,778 --> 00:51:14,655
Any one shot or several.
952
00:51:17,116 --> 00:51:19,285
Maybe an exciting and harmless kick.
953
00:51:21,745 --> 00:51:25,874
But each time you try the
odds keep growing against you.
954
00:51:27,376 --> 00:51:28,376
Until.
955
00:51:30,045 --> 00:51:31,797
Until that final kick.
956
00:51:35,884 --> 00:51:36,884
It's up to you.
957
00:51:47,021 --> 00:51:49,791
If I can make
an impression on one,
958
00:51:49,815 --> 00:51:53,837
just one of you kids that's
here, that's really all I want.
959
00:51:53,861 --> 00:51:58,508
Because if somebody somewhere
had made an impression on me
960
00:51:58,532 --> 00:52:00,594
maybe I wouldn't have done it.
961
00:52:00,618 --> 00:52:03,430
This is
Florrie Fisher's story
962
00:52:03,454 --> 00:52:05,348
told in her own words to
963
00:52:05,372 --> 00:52:07,976
a group of New York city high students
964
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:10,127
typical of teenagers across the country.
965
00:52:11,128 --> 00:52:13,356
It's not a pretty story.
966
00:52:13,380 --> 00:52:17,068
It's a story of heart break and hell.
967
00:52:17,092 --> 00:52:19,738
It's a story of 23 wasted years
968
00:52:19,762 --> 00:52:21,906
in the life of a drug addict.
969
00:52:21,930 --> 00:52:25,702
17 of those years behind bars.
970
00:52:25,726 --> 00:52:27,495
It's a true story.
971
00:52:27,519 --> 00:52:31,416
Said something wrong, he
said I was a drug addict,
972
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:35,712
well I was not a drug
addict, I am a drug addict.
973
00:52:35,736 --> 00:52:38,757
I haven't used anything in over four years
974
00:52:38,781 --> 00:52:41,718
but I never forget that I am a drug addict
975
00:52:41,742 --> 00:52:43,845
and I wanna thank you very, very much
976
00:52:43,869 --> 00:52:46,931
for letting me talk to you
because this is my life line.
977
00:52:46,955 --> 00:52:49,684
I have to talk about it everyday you know,
978
00:52:49,708 --> 00:52:52,729
I'll be very honest with
you I never have days
979
00:52:52,753 --> 00:52:55,857
that I'm just completely
like everybody else,
980
00:52:55,881 --> 00:52:57,734
every time my mother aggravates me
981
00:52:57,758 --> 00:53:00,820
and she's 80 years old and my
dads 89 and god bless them,
982
00:53:00,844 --> 00:53:02,989
they aggravate the hell out of me.
983
00:53:03,013 --> 00:53:06,910
You know I say oh I wish I could get high
984
00:53:06,934 --> 00:53:10,455
but it's a feeling that
I have inside, gut level.
985
00:53:10,479 --> 00:53:12,791
I'd like to be high, I'm not gonna lie
986
00:53:12,815 --> 00:53:14,250
to you it's a great feeling,
987
00:53:14,274 --> 00:53:17,545
you smoke marijuana and it's great.
988
00:53:17,569 --> 00:53:20,215
You go further than
that it's even greater.
989
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:23,176
Gut level I like that
feeling but intellectually
990
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:27,931
I now know I can't smoke one stick of pot
991
00:53:27,955 --> 00:53:30,975
I can't take one snort of horse,
992
00:53:30,999 --> 00:53:33,728
I can't take one needle of cocaine
993
00:53:33,752 --> 00:53:36,856
because I am an addictive personality
994
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:40,026
and that's all I need, is one of anything.
995
00:53:40,050 --> 00:53:41,861
You know I need one dress, if I happen
996
00:53:41,885 --> 00:53:43,405
to like this dress in tan,
997
00:53:43,429 --> 00:53:45,323
I buy the same dress in green, and black,
998
00:53:45,347 --> 00:53:48,702
I mean this is the type
of personality I am.
999
00:53:48,726 --> 00:53:50,328
The world is full of it.
1000
00:53:50,352 --> 00:53:52,789
Now I know you kids, in order to have
1001
00:53:52,813 --> 00:53:55,917
the ends justify the means, have read,
1002
00:53:55,941 --> 00:54:00,046
have talked, have heard
marijuana is not addictive.
1003
00:54:00,070 --> 00:54:04,300
Well that's true,
marijuana is not addictive,
1004
00:54:04,324 --> 00:54:05,677
the doctors are telling you the
1005
00:54:05,701 --> 00:54:09,347
truth marijuana is not
physically addictive
1006
00:54:09,371 --> 00:54:14,293
but it is so psychologically
addictive that you cannot.
1007
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:18,022
And before I go any further
I'll tell you people
1008
00:54:18,046 --> 00:54:21,317
say give me statistics,
the hell with statistics,
1009
00:54:21,341 --> 00:54:24,237
I don't want a piece of
paper with numbers on it,
1010
00:54:24,261 --> 00:54:26,948
I am unto myself a statistic,
1011
00:54:26,972 --> 00:54:31,244
the only statistic I need
along with me 23 years
1012
00:54:31,268 --> 00:54:33,329
of living with nothing but gutter hypes
1013
00:54:33,353 --> 00:54:37,417
and junkies, I have 1,000s
of friends if you will,
1014
00:54:37,441 --> 00:54:40,336
they're all junkies and there isn't one,
1015
00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:44,174
not one, who didn't
start smoking marijuana.
1016
00:54:44,198 --> 00:54:46,885
Now I talk to kids and
they say well miss Fisher
1017
00:54:46,909 --> 00:54:49,721
your talk is not pertinent to me
1018
00:54:49,745 --> 00:54:53,224
because my culture is
just smoking marijuana.
1019
00:54:53,248 --> 00:54:57,187
Well you know what, my
culture just smoked marijuana
1020
00:54:57,211 --> 00:55:01,691
until we got on horse
and you know you're young
1021
00:55:01,715 --> 00:55:04,277
you're beautiful with young youth
1022
00:55:04,301 --> 00:55:07,071
and along with young
youth comes a curiosity
1023
00:55:07,095 --> 00:55:09,908
of young youth and if
you smoke a stick of pot
1024
00:55:09,932 --> 00:55:12,535
and you feel good who here can tell me
1025
00:55:12,559 --> 00:55:15,622
that if somebody says man that was a gas,
1026
00:55:15,646 --> 00:55:18,208
you ain't lived until you
took a snort of horse,
1027
00:55:18,232 --> 00:55:19,667
don't you want to try it?
1028
00:55:19,691 --> 00:55:21,127
You know it can't happen to you,
1029
00:55:21,151 --> 00:55:22,921
you're not gonna get hooked with one shot,
1030
00:55:22,945 --> 00:55:25,173
and you're not gonna get
hooked with one shot,
1031
00:55:25,197 --> 00:55:26,633
and you over there with the beads
1032
00:55:26,657 --> 00:55:29,135
on you're not gonna get
hooked with one shot
1033
00:55:29,159 --> 00:55:31,930
but it only takes one shot
to take a second shot.
1034
00:55:31,954 --> 00:55:33,973
And that second shot goes into a third
1035
00:55:33,997 --> 00:55:38,144
and then you get like me,
you start needing 185 dollars
1036
00:55:38,168 --> 00:55:40,897
a day and you know what,
the bank presidents
1037
00:55:40,921 --> 00:55:42,315
don't have that kind of money at
1038
00:55:42,339 --> 00:55:45,068
their command so now here I am.
1039
00:55:45,092 --> 00:55:49,113
I'm a girl from a nice middle
to upper class Jewish family,
1040
00:55:49,137 --> 00:55:50,698
I have a sister and brother who are
1041
00:55:50,722 --> 00:55:53,535
the pillars of society, I'm the baby.
1042
00:55:53,559 --> 00:55:56,204
I was very much loved by my parents.
1043
00:55:56,228 --> 00:55:59,332
I won't go into it now
but I blame my mother
1044
00:55:59,356 --> 00:56:01,167
and father for loving me too much,
1045
00:56:01,191 --> 00:56:03,211
I lied from the time I could talk,
1046
00:56:03,235 --> 00:56:05,338
I was a pathological liar.
1047
00:56:05,362 --> 00:56:10,325
And all of this was a lead up
into my addictive personality.
1048
00:56:10,826 --> 00:56:13,847
Now I was in the country, the Jewish.
1049
00:56:13,871 --> 00:56:16,057
Catskills and I met a,
1050
00:56:16,081 --> 00:56:18,518
what you call a hippie now
was a zoot suitor then,
1051
00:56:18,542 --> 00:56:20,103
you know the whole bit with the peg pants,
1052
00:56:20,127 --> 00:56:22,730
long jacket, and the swinging key chain,
1053
00:56:22,754 --> 00:56:24,232
the mustache and the sideburns.
1054
00:56:24,256 --> 00:56:26,734
And I thought he was just gorgeous
1055
00:56:26,758 --> 00:56:28,903
and I conned my mother into going home
1056
00:56:28,927 --> 00:56:30,822
and letting me stay at a
girlfriends who's parents
1057
00:56:30,846 --> 00:56:33,241
had their own little
place in the mountains
1058
00:56:33,265 --> 00:56:34,909
so I spent the weekend with this guy
1059
00:56:34,933 --> 00:56:36,703
and he was smoking marijuana
1060
00:56:36,727 --> 00:56:38,329
and I thought he was just so marvelous,
1061
00:56:38,353 --> 00:56:39,789
anything he wanted to do I wanted
1062
00:56:39,813 --> 00:56:41,624
to identify with him and I did it.
1063
00:56:41,648 --> 00:56:43,334
I'd never heard of marijuana before
1064
00:56:43,358 --> 00:56:46,045
and incidentally you
school kids, don't think
1065
00:56:46,069 --> 00:56:50,365
well education, I'm a college
graduate, it doesn't matter.
1066
00:56:52,826 --> 00:56:56,681
Drugs, marijuana a rose by any other name,
1067
00:56:56,705 --> 00:57:01,019
well drug is the most negative
working thing I had ever met.
1068
00:57:01,043 --> 00:57:06,006
It sucks every part of
you up in a negative way.
1069
00:57:06,506 --> 00:57:10,695
Now if you all sit complacently
it can happen to you,
1070
00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:14,157
it can and it will, you girls, you Negros,
1071
00:57:14,181 --> 00:57:15,950
I don't know whether you live in Harlem
1072
00:57:15,974 --> 00:57:19,037
but I know a Harlem that
you kids don't know.
1073
00:57:19,061 --> 00:57:21,497
I know a Harlem where
I laid on dope street,
1074
00:57:21,521 --> 00:57:24,125
I'm sure it's still dope
street, 117th street,
1075
00:57:24,149 --> 00:57:27,921
I know the sports bar is
closed, I know all these places.
1076
00:57:27,945 --> 00:57:30,798
I cop there, all the
cocaine, all the caps,
1077
00:57:30,822 --> 00:57:33,468
all the 25 dollar half loads
1078
00:57:33,492 --> 00:57:36,346
and the 50 dollar bundles,
I cop from everybody
1079
00:57:36,370 --> 00:57:40,016
and there I was sleeping
in a bathroom nodding
1080
00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:42,435
out where any man could make me his prey
1081
00:57:42,459 --> 00:57:44,312
and you know what it
wouldn't make any difference
1082
00:57:44,336 --> 00:57:47,190
because I didn't know, I was zunked.
1083
00:57:47,214 --> 00:57:48,483
I didn't have to do this,
1084
00:57:48,507 --> 00:57:51,069
this is something drugs lead me to.
1085
00:57:51,093 --> 00:57:53,863
Now I married a man, this boy,
1086
00:57:53,887 --> 00:57:55,156
you know he smoked marijuana,
1087
00:57:55,180 --> 00:57:57,033
this was his only crime,
he was a young kid,
1088
00:57:57,057 --> 00:57:59,827
he had two years of college
and you know what I did?
1089
00:57:59,851 --> 00:58:03,915
I made a pimp out of
him, an 18 karat pimp.
1090
00:58:03,939 --> 00:58:07,210
I was a call girl, I was young, I was fly,
1091
00:58:07,234 --> 00:58:10,755
I was pretty and I was
out selling my body.
1092
00:58:10,779 --> 00:58:13,216
Kept going to jail and
you know, ten years later
1093
00:58:13,240 --> 00:58:14,842
I had to be ten dollars cheaper
1094
00:58:14,866 --> 00:58:17,845
and I want a call girl, I became a madam.
1095
00:58:17,869 --> 00:58:20,264
Then I became a street whore.
1096
00:58:20,288 --> 00:58:22,684
Then I'd been in every department store,
1097
00:58:22,708 --> 00:58:26,896
my mug is in every post
office, it isn't now thank God
1098
00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:29,273
but it was but there was no place that
1099
00:58:29,297 --> 00:58:32,235
I could go and I kept going to jail.
1100
00:58:32,259 --> 00:58:35,405
I was busted three months
after I got my first habit
1101
00:58:35,429 --> 00:58:37,615
and I was sentenced to one to three years,
1102
00:58:37,639 --> 00:58:39,450
that's pen indef, in
the house of detention
1103
00:58:39,474 --> 00:58:41,119
in Greenwich village I'm sure you all know
1104
00:58:41,143 --> 00:58:44,247
where it was and I spent 24 months there
1105
00:58:44,271 --> 00:58:47,065
on my first offense for
possession of a needle.
1106
00:58:47,941 --> 00:58:49,711
I came out and what do you do?
1107
00:58:49,735 --> 00:58:51,295
You know you're hooked, physiologically
1108
00:58:51,319 --> 00:58:52,630
you're hooked, you're in jail,
1109
00:58:52,654 --> 00:58:54,382
you're out of jail, you're using.
1110
00:58:54,406 --> 00:58:56,342
If you're not you're
thinking of how quickly
1111
00:58:56,366 --> 00:58:58,177
you can use and when.
1112
00:58:58,201 --> 00:59:00,930
Everyday that I spent in jail I dreamt
1113
00:59:00,954 --> 00:59:02,849
about the time I could cook my breakfast
1114
00:59:02,873 --> 00:59:05,018
up in a tea spoon and I'm sure everyone
1115
00:59:05,042 --> 00:59:07,353
of you has been exposed
to that type of talk.
1116
00:59:07,377 --> 00:59:09,355
This is a shot of heroin.
1117
00:59:09,379 --> 00:59:12,817
Now I came out of jail,
I went back to jail,
1118
00:59:12,841 --> 00:59:14,986
I came out of jail, I went back to jail,
1119
00:59:15,010 --> 00:59:17,613
I've done four years, five years,
1120
00:59:17,637 --> 00:59:20,658
in the house of detention
I have 12 years racked up
1121
00:59:20,682 --> 00:59:23,202
in 30 days, in 90 days, in a year,
1122
00:59:23,226 --> 00:59:25,997
in three years, I have
four years in Bedford.
1123
00:59:26,021 --> 00:59:30,001
I was in Raiford and I did a year
1124
00:59:30,025 --> 00:59:33,838
I came out and in 1955 I got married.
1125
00:59:33,862 --> 00:59:37,467
October 16th and on my
honey moon two days later
1126
00:59:37,491 --> 00:59:42,454
in Key West I was busted and
I went to jail for four years.
1127
00:59:42,913 --> 00:59:44,682
Well in all that time my husband
1128
00:59:44,706 --> 00:59:46,476
and I the only love making we ever
1129
00:59:46,500 --> 00:59:49,937
did was our letter once a week
where we swore undying love.
1130
00:59:49,961 --> 00:59:51,355
You know I haven't seen my husband,
1131
00:59:51,379 --> 00:59:54,567
I came out, he met me and
he kinda dissipated himself.
1132
00:59:54,591 --> 00:59:58,696
It's not important but the
thing is there was my life
1133
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:00,615
and you know something, I know
1134
01:00:00,639 --> 01:00:03,618
that everyone of you kids feel great.
1135
01:00:03,642 --> 01:00:05,453
You know, she's 50 years old,
1136
01:00:05,477 --> 01:00:07,705
how does she identify with you?
1137
01:00:07,729 --> 01:00:10,666
I do identify with you you know why?
1138
01:00:10,690 --> 01:00:15,421
I'm a 50 year old hippie, I
think exactly like you think.
1139
01:00:15,445 --> 01:00:19,092
The only thing is you think
it and I have thought it,
1140
01:00:19,116 --> 01:00:22,720
done it, acted upon
it, and suffered by it.
1141
01:00:22,744 --> 01:00:25,014
Now you know you can be smart or you
1142
01:00:25,038 --> 01:00:29,143
can be stupid and I tell
you if you smoke marijuana,
1143
01:00:29,167 --> 01:00:33,189
if you take speed, if
you use any exhilarant,
1144
01:00:33,213 --> 01:00:36,317
or any depressant, you're foolish
1145
01:00:36,341 --> 01:00:37,944
because you can't get away with it.
1146
01:00:37,968 --> 01:00:40,321
I assure you I'm a pretty smart cookie,
1147
01:00:40,345 --> 01:00:41,864
you know I was a confidence woman,
1148
01:00:41,888 --> 01:00:44,283
I built people all over the country,
1149
01:00:44,307 --> 01:00:46,869
I'm by any standards smart.
1150
01:00:46,893 --> 01:00:49,664
The only thing is I
wasn't smart with dope,
1151
01:00:49,688 --> 01:00:52,125
I couldn't handle it and there's nobody
1152
01:00:52,149 --> 01:00:53,835
in the world that can handle it.
1153
01:00:53,859 --> 01:00:57,088
Now I can't tell you not to do it
1154
01:00:57,112 --> 01:01:00,925
but I can suggest to you believe it,
1155
01:01:00,949 --> 01:01:02,760
you're your brothers keeper
1156
01:01:02,784 --> 01:01:04,679
and I know the code of the streets
1157
01:01:04,703 --> 01:01:06,639
goes for even the squares.
1158
01:01:06,663 --> 01:01:09,475
You don't want to tell, you
don't want to be a rat fink
1159
01:01:09,499 --> 01:01:11,477
but you wanna know something you've gotta
1160
01:01:11,501 --> 01:01:13,229
be a rat fink if you don't wanna put
1161
01:01:13,253 --> 01:01:15,398
your name down let me tell you something
1162
01:01:15,422 --> 01:01:17,984
if I had a friend who
was smoking marijuana
1163
01:01:18,008 --> 01:01:21,154
and I knew it I wouldn't
say hey Jake I'm gonna
1164
01:01:21,178 --> 01:01:22,989
tell on you I would take his name,
1165
01:01:23,013 --> 01:01:25,700
take his address, say he's smoking pot
1166
01:01:25,724 --> 01:01:27,743
and to use the expression of the street,
1167
01:01:27,767 --> 01:01:28,911
I drop a dime on him.
1168
01:01:28,935 --> 01:01:30,872
I put a ten cents stamp in an envelope,
1169
01:01:30,896 --> 01:01:34,458
put his name and address on it
and drop it in the mail box.
1170
01:01:34,482 --> 01:01:38,028
Somebody will take it up from
there, but you have to do it.
1171
01:01:38,904 --> 01:01:42,175
If somebody did it to me
I wouldn't be here talking
1172
01:01:42,199 --> 01:01:45,178
to you like this, I have a
father who's still living
1173
01:01:45,202 --> 01:01:47,263
I have a mother who's still living,
1174
01:01:47,287 --> 01:01:49,432
do you think this is easy for me?
1175
01:01:49,456 --> 01:01:52,018
My name is splashed all over the papers,
1176
01:01:52,042 --> 01:01:56,397
I'll be on TV national network,
do you think they like it?
1177
01:01:56,421 --> 01:01:59,942
They don't like it but
they're proud of me now
1178
01:01:59,966 --> 01:02:01,903
and with their old European wisdom
1179
01:02:01,927 --> 01:02:03,446
they said well your name was splashed
1180
01:02:03,470 --> 01:02:06,073
all over the papers every
time you got busted,
1181
01:02:06,097 --> 01:02:08,993
at least no your nose is clean
and you're doing something.
1182
01:02:09,017 --> 01:02:10,786
And this is how I kind of feel
1183
01:02:10,810 --> 01:02:12,830
maybe I'll use the word missionary.
1184
01:02:12,854 --> 01:02:15,625
If I can make an impression on one,
1185
01:02:15,649 --> 01:02:18,002
just one of you kids that's here,
1186
01:02:18,026 --> 01:02:19,587
that's really all I want
1187
01:02:19,611 --> 01:02:22,798
because if somebody somewhere
had made an impression
1188
01:02:22,822 --> 01:02:26,677
on me maybe I wouldn't have done it.
1189
01:02:26,701 --> 01:02:29,555
Now I was talking at Norland high.
1190
01:02:29,579 --> 01:02:32,183
And you know what in a auditorium
1191
01:02:32,207 --> 01:02:36,020
that had 2,500 seats, in a school
1192
01:02:36,044 --> 01:02:39,398
that had almost 3,000 students
1193
01:02:39,422 --> 01:02:41,484
and I assume everyone of these students
1194
01:02:41,508 --> 01:02:45,905
had at least one parent,
50 parents showed up.
1195
01:02:45,929 --> 01:02:47,406
They didn't gave a damn about
1196
01:02:47,430 --> 01:02:49,492
their kids and you know something,
1197
01:02:49,516 --> 01:02:51,869
I really, maybe I'm
saying the wrong thing,
1198
01:02:51,893 --> 01:02:54,163
I don't expect too much of you kids,
1199
01:02:54,187 --> 01:02:56,249
how the hell can they expect you to care
1200
01:02:56,273 --> 01:02:58,376
when your mother and father don't care
1201
01:02:58,400 --> 01:03:00,211
and they have to care because they're
1202
01:03:00,235 --> 01:03:01,837
the ones that have to recognize it
1203
01:03:01,861 --> 01:03:04,090
and I know you all talk, sure you hear
1204
01:03:04,114 --> 01:03:06,509
they're taking dope, their
pupils are pin points,
1205
01:03:06,533 --> 01:03:08,970
they're on the nod,
they're hanging over there,
1206
01:03:08,994 --> 01:03:10,429
their nose is down to the floor.
1207
01:03:10,453 --> 01:03:12,348
That's fine, you're taking morphine,
1208
01:03:12,372 --> 01:03:13,766
or you're taking heroin,
1209
01:03:13,790 --> 01:03:15,810
but what about the mother who says I don't
1210
01:03:15,834 --> 01:03:17,812
believe it I told my
daughter to do the bedroom
1211
01:03:17,836 --> 01:03:19,313
and she's cleaning the whole house,
1212
01:03:19,337 --> 01:03:22,024
isn't this marvelous, she's
just abounding with energy.
1213
01:03:22,048 --> 01:03:24,193
Well nine chances out of ten
1214
01:03:24,217 --> 01:03:26,404
she's abounding with Methedrine.
1215
01:03:26,428 --> 01:03:30,616
Speed, desoxyn, amphetamine, cocaine,
1216
01:03:30,640 --> 01:03:32,618
these are exhilarants and if a mother is
1217
01:03:32,642 --> 01:03:35,454
looking for pin pointed
pupils she won't find them,
1218
01:03:35,478 --> 01:03:38,374
she'll find big black dilated pupils.
1219
01:03:38,398 --> 01:03:41,627
But if she doesn't know
what can she do about it?
1220
01:03:41,651 --> 01:03:43,212
If a kid comes home and says mama
1221
01:03:43,236 --> 01:03:44,714
I'm sleeping over at Jack's house
1222
01:03:44,738 --> 01:03:48,092
and mama calls up and he's
not at Jacks house so what?
1223
01:03:48,116 --> 01:03:49,927
So he comes home and he says mom
1224
01:03:49,951 --> 01:03:52,370
I said Jack but I really meant Jim.
1225
01:03:53,288 --> 01:03:57,018
Well he's not telling the
truth he was out getting high,
1226
01:03:57,042 --> 01:04:00,879
stealing a car, laying out
on the beach smoking pot.
1227
01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:04,525
And to use an old Jewish cliche,
1228
01:04:04,549 --> 01:04:07,111
from this comes the worst diseases.
1229
01:04:07,135 --> 01:04:09,030
Nobody can get away with it.
1230
01:04:09,054 --> 01:04:12,867
And you say I repeat, be a rat fink.
1231
01:04:12,891 --> 01:04:14,744
How the hell can I be a rat fink,
1232
01:04:14,768 --> 01:04:16,829
how can I get my friend picked up,
1233
01:04:16,853 --> 01:04:18,289
why can't you get your friend
1234
01:04:18,313 --> 01:04:20,624
picked up for psychiatric help?
1235
01:04:20,648 --> 01:04:22,752
If you don't get him picked you today
1236
01:04:22,776 --> 01:04:25,171
next year he's gonna be busted
1237
01:04:25,195 --> 01:04:27,715
and you know what in Florida for instance
1238
01:04:27,739 --> 01:04:32,428
where I am now it is a
mandatory five year sentence
1239
01:04:32,452 --> 01:04:36,331
in the penitentiary for
possession of one stick of pot.
1240
01:04:37,207 --> 01:04:40,144
Now they say if you legalized
1241
01:04:40,168 --> 01:04:42,313
it that would take away the intrigue,
1242
01:04:42,337 --> 01:04:45,524
that would take away the kabal,
you know the black market.
1243
01:04:45,548 --> 01:04:48,069
It isn't so you know
what you have in England?
1244
01:04:48,093 --> 01:04:50,654
It's legalized there so you have people
1245
01:04:50,678 --> 01:04:54,200
standing in line waiting for
the drug store to open up
1246
01:04:54,224 --> 01:04:56,285
and what do they do there, they open up,
1247
01:04:56,309 --> 01:04:58,287
they sell them the stuff and they go into
1248
01:04:58,311 --> 01:05:00,664
the park Like Washington
park or Gramercy park
1249
01:05:00,688 --> 01:05:03,501
and they sit there in broad
daylight fixing a shot
1250
01:05:03,525 --> 01:05:06,212
and taking it and in front
of them is five little kids
1251
01:05:06,236 --> 01:05:10,091
maybe two, four, six, and eight
mister what are you doing?
1252
01:05:10,115 --> 01:05:12,676
So here you're going
to grow into at society
1253
01:05:12,700 --> 01:05:15,388
of kids who have been exposed to main line
1254
01:05:15,412 --> 01:05:18,474
narcotic shooting from the
time they were able to walk.
1255
01:05:18,498 --> 01:05:20,851
What can they possibly grow into?
1256
01:05:20,875 --> 01:05:23,020
All of you people who say LSD,
1257
01:05:23,044 --> 01:05:24,730
okay if you're emotionally stable,
1258
01:05:24,754 --> 01:05:28,526
you know it doesn't give
you a bad trip, it's a lie.
1259
01:05:28,550 --> 01:05:30,903
I was thrown from a horse
and I had a laminectomy
1260
01:05:30,927 --> 01:05:34,031
and I ended up in the San
Francisco general hospital.
1261
01:05:34,055 --> 01:05:37,618
I was operated on by the
same doctor who operated
1262
01:05:37,642 --> 01:05:39,829
on the late Jane Mansfield sons sultan
1263
01:05:39,853 --> 01:05:41,664
when he was mauled by the lion.
1264
01:05:41,688 --> 01:05:44,708
Well while I was there they brought in
1265
01:05:44,732 --> 01:05:48,587
a straight B student, 21 year old girl
1266
01:05:48,611 --> 01:05:50,548
from the University of
Southern California,
1267
01:05:50,572 --> 01:05:54,385
she was part negro, part
Spanish, and part Indian
1268
01:05:54,409 --> 01:05:57,221
and believe me she had
the beauty of all three.
1269
01:05:57,245 --> 01:06:00,433
Well when I saw her she was
in the psychiatric ward.
1270
01:06:00,457 --> 01:06:03,561
She had taken a trip on
LSD and it was devastating,
1271
01:06:03,585 --> 01:06:05,604
they committed her to the psychiatric ward
1272
01:06:05,628 --> 01:06:07,022
on the sixth floor.
1273
01:06:07,046 --> 01:06:09,233
One of her college
buddies came to visit her
1274
01:06:09,257 --> 01:06:11,360
and brought her a cube of sugar which
1275
01:06:11,384 --> 01:06:14,613
had LSD in it and she decided to escape.
1276
01:06:14,637 --> 01:06:16,949
The avenue of escape she used was
1277
01:06:16,973 --> 01:06:19,160
to go out the sixth floor window.
1278
01:06:19,184 --> 01:06:20,411
How was she going to do that,
1279
01:06:20,435 --> 01:06:23,622
she took one sheet and
even on a king sized bed
1280
01:06:23,646 --> 01:06:26,292
I'm sure you all have an
idea the length of a sheet.
1281
01:06:26,316 --> 01:06:28,836
With that length she had
to tie it to the bed post
1282
01:06:28,860 --> 01:06:31,338
and she lowered her
self out the sixth floor
1283
01:06:31,362 --> 01:06:33,507
so of course she dropped five stories.
1284
01:06:33,531 --> 01:06:35,759
When I saw her she was on a stryker frame.
1285
01:06:35,783 --> 01:06:37,761
If any of you remember when Kennedy broke
1286
01:06:37,785 --> 01:06:40,222
his back, it looks like a long spit.
1287
01:06:40,246 --> 01:06:43,184
You're head is held
immobile by two ice prongs,
1288
01:06:43,208 --> 01:06:45,060
your feet are tied by traction,
1289
01:06:45,084 --> 01:06:47,271
and every two hours they turn you over.
1290
01:06:47,295 --> 01:06:50,608
This girls neck was broken in six places.
1291
01:06:50,632 --> 01:06:53,694
Now I found out since
that they fused her spine
1292
01:06:53,718 --> 01:06:56,530
and her neck and she will always be stiff
1293
01:06:56,554 --> 01:06:58,449
but it doesn't make and difference because
1294
01:06:58,473 --> 01:07:03,329
she is raving maniac and
her prognosis is null.
1295
01:07:03,353 --> 01:07:06,582
Now this is LSD and I know doctors,
1296
01:07:06,606 --> 01:07:09,752
and I know lawyers, and I
know the most stable people
1297
01:07:09,776 --> 01:07:12,338
in the world that have taken trips
1298
01:07:12,362 --> 01:07:15,716
on LSD and are still waiting to return.
1299
01:07:15,740 --> 01:07:17,718
Now remember that well please.
1300
01:07:17,742 --> 01:07:19,178
And you must forgive me, I talk off
1301
01:07:19,202 --> 01:07:21,847
the top and if something
comes in my mind I repeat it.
1302
01:07:21,871 --> 01:07:23,557
Let me repeat something to you that
1303
01:07:23,581 --> 01:07:26,852
I know everyone of you
kids will identify with.
1304
01:07:26,876 --> 01:07:29,355
Damn it I did this or damn it I did that.
1305
01:07:29,379 --> 01:07:31,315
My older brother was always bugging me.
1306
01:07:31,339 --> 01:07:33,150
My sister was always bugging me.
1307
01:07:33,174 --> 01:07:35,694
My mother and father are
always telling me what to do.
1308
01:07:35,718 --> 01:07:40,682
So great, rebel by all means
rebel and start using pills,
1309
01:07:41,057 --> 01:07:44,703
start using goofballs,
start using marijuana,
1310
01:07:44,727 --> 01:07:47,706
start using horse and then go to jail.
1311
01:07:47,730 --> 01:07:48,999
And then you know what, you're going
1312
01:07:49,023 --> 01:07:50,751
to a place like I went to.
1313
01:07:50,775 --> 01:07:53,087
Raiford, Florida state penitentiary,
1314
01:07:53,111 --> 01:07:56,006
where you're thrown into a sardine can.
1315
01:07:56,030 --> 01:07:58,634
Where you eat and you sleep,
1316
01:07:58,658 --> 01:08:00,302
and you mess on the floor
1317
01:08:00,326 --> 01:08:01,929
and you lay naked for male
1318
01:08:01,953 --> 01:08:04,598
and female guards to check up on you
1319
01:08:04,622 --> 01:08:06,600
and in the morning because the smell
1320
01:08:06,624 --> 01:08:10,062
is ridiculous they hose
you out with a power hose.
1321
01:08:10,086 --> 01:08:12,439
You're told when to eat, what to eat,
1322
01:08:12,463 --> 01:08:14,358
how to eat and whet do you eat?
1323
01:08:14,382 --> 01:08:19,345
Beans and corn bread in the after noon.
1324
01:08:19,554 --> 01:08:22,366
Coffee and grits in the morning
1325
01:08:22,390 --> 01:08:24,034
and rice and hogshead cheese in
1326
01:08:24,058 --> 01:08:27,162
the night every day from Monday to Sunday.
1327
01:08:27,186 --> 01:08:28,664
This is what you get.
1328
01:08:28,688 --> 01:08:31,959
You have no pride, you ave no respect,
1329
01:08:31,983 --> 01:08:34,878
you're stripped of every
vestige of anything
1330
01:08:34,902 --> 01:08:38,382
that you were given by
God, is that what you want?
1331
01:08:38,406 --> 01:08:40,676
That's what you'll get you can't get away
1332
01:08:40,700 --> 01:08:43,345
with it cause I repeat I'm pretty smart
1333
01:08:43,369 --> 01:08:46,432
and I couldn't get away
with and I am trying
1334
01:08:46,456 --> 01:08:49,768
my darnedest to go all over the country,
1335
01:08:49,792 --> 01:08:51,979
I work, I work for 52 dollars
1336
01:08:52,003 --> 01:08:54,648
a week in a house for retarded children
1337
01:08:54,672 --> 01:08:57,943
because my thing now is
I have to help people.
1338
01:08:57,967 --> 01:09:00,821
I was helped and I'll
tell you how I was helped.
1339
01:09:00,845 --> 01:09:03,449
I was in the house of detention right here
1340
01:09:03,473 --> 01:09:07,202
doing a six month sentence
for being a habitual user.
1341
01:09:07,226 --> 01:09:10,247
Well I did my five months
and I think 20 days
1342
01:09:10,271 --> 01:09:12,523
and I was being released
the following week.
1343
01:09:14,025 --> 01:09:17,421
I looked outside, you
know you see tenth avenue
1344
01:09:17,445 --> 01:09:18,631
or sixth avenue on Granite
1345
01:09:18,655 --> 01:09:21,592
and I said good God I have
to go out on the street
1346
01:09:21,616 --> 01:09:23,469
and come up against all these squares,
1347
01:09:23,493 --> 01:09:26,221
maybe get in a cab or
get in a bus or a taxi
1348
01:09:26,245 --> 01:09:28,891
and see these damn squares
and I'm not gonna be high?
1349
01:09:28,915 --> 01:09:30,184
I can't do it.
1350
01:09:30,208 --> 01:09:32,645
So I sent out to my
connection would you please
1351
01:09:32,669 --> 01:09:34,271
meet me with a shot, I can't make
1352
01:09:34,295 --> 01:09:37,274
the street seen with the
squares, I gotta be loaded.
1353
01:09:37,298 --> 01:09:39,443
I was a good customer,
you know 185 dollars
1354
01:09:39,467 --> 01:09:41,153
a day habit so he met me in
1355
01:09:41,177 --> 01:09:43,906
the rotunda of the house
of detention with a shot.
1356
01:09:43,930 --> 01:09:45,199
I went into the phone booth
1357
01:09:45,223 --> 01:09:47,493
and right through my
dress I took that shot,
1358
01:09:47,517 --> 01:09:50,621
unfortunately one of the matrons wanted
1359
01:09:50,645 --> 01:09:53,082
to make a phone call and
she walked in and busted me.
1360
01:09:53,106 --> 01:09:54,833
And without ever hitting the street
1361
01:09:54,857 --> 01:09:58,504
I was re arrested and got
another six months as a user.
1362
01:09:58,528 --> 01:10:01,882
So there I was doing a year
without ever hitting the street.
1363
01:10:01,906 --> 01:10:06,095
Well I don't say God is dead.
1364
01:10:06,119 --> 01:10:07,846
I only say that for many, many years
1365
01:10:07,870 --> 01:10:10,015
we weren't on speaking terms.
1366
01:10:10,039 --> 01:10:12,893
But this particular day
somebody was up there
1367
01:10:12,917 --> 01:10:14,770
and he happened to like me because
1368
01:10:14,794 --> 01:10:15,938
while I was looking for something
1369
01:10:15,962 --> 01:10:20,109
else in a magazine I stumbles on Synanon.
1370
01:10:20,133 --> 01:10:22,695
And then that man up
stairs who liked me finally
1371
01:10:22,719 --> 01:10:25,030
gave me a little tip and booted me
1372
01:10:25,054 --> 01:10:26,865
and I wrote the pathetic letter saying
1373
01:10:26,889 --> 01:10:30,577
I'm 46 years old, been
coming to jail for 18 years,
1374
01:10:30,601 --> 01:10:34,790
have been using stuff for 23
year, obviously I need help.
1375
01:10:34,814 --> 01:10:38,735
Obviously I can't help myself,
won't you please help me?
1376
01:10:39,652 --> 01:10:41,505
The lawyer for Synanon
came in to the house
1377
01:10:41,529 --> 01:10:45,843
of detention and February 11th 1964 when
1378
01:10:45,867 --> 01:10:48,887
I was released there
are many clinics here.
1379
01:10:48,911 --> 01:10:51,640
They are all imitations of Synanon.
1380
01:10:51,664 --> 01:10:53,892
If you kids have a
problem I don't say go in
1381
01:10:53,916 --> 01:10:56,770
and join, go in and find
out what it's all about
1382
01:10:56,794 --> 01:10:58,689
because all the people there have
1383
01:10:58,713 --> 01:11:01,942
in one way or another identified with me.
1384
01:11:01,966 --> 01:11:04,570
They can help you, you kids need help.
1385
01:11:04,594 --> 01:11:06,613
I assume this is your teacher,
1386
01:11:06,637 --> 01:11:10,325
don't be afraid she's only
there to help you, tell her.
1387
01:11:10,349 --> 01:11:14,079
Get up enough moxie to go
and say I did something,
1388
01:11:14,103 --> 01:11:15,914
I'm afraid, help me.
1389
01:11:15,938 --> 01:11:18,792
Jail is not the answer.
1390
01:11:18,816 --> 01:11:21,420
No prison hospital is the answer.
1391
01:11:21,444 --> 01:11:23,881
Help, identification, and talking
1392
01:11:23,905 --> 01:11:26,467
to people who have been
there and been through it.
1393
01:11:26,491 --> 01:11:30,262
That's the only way, you have
to learn how to ask for help.
1394
01:11:30,286 --> 01:11:32,556
People will help you but they can't help
1395
01:11:32,580 --> 01:11:34,308
you unless they know you need help
1396
01:11:34,332 --> 01:11:37,519
and they can't know you need
help if you don't ask for it.
1397
01:11:37,543 --> 01:11:40,647
Learn how to ask for help, you need it.
1398
01:11:40,671 --> 01:11:44,234
It took me 23 years but I
learned how to ask for help.
1399
01:11:44,258 --> 01:11:47,345
I was helped and I'm trying to help you.
1400
01:11:48,346 --> 01:11:50,365
Wherever she
goes Florrie is interested
1401
01:11:50,389 --> 01:11:52,367
in the comments and
questions of young people
1402
01:11:52,391 --> 01:11:53,869
who have heard her story.
1403
01:11:53,893 --> 01:11:55,621
Here is a sample of some of the questions
1404
01:11:55,645 --> 01:11:58,582
asked by these New York city
teenagers and her answers.
1405
01:11:58,606 --> 01:12:00,000
She will answer your questions.
1406
01:12:00,024 --> 01:12:02,002
Well I have a question, don't you think
1407
01:12:02,026 --> 01:12:04,797
you're being a bit presumptuous with us?
1408
01:12:04,821 --> 01:12:07,674
First of all you said that
you consider us hippies.
1409
01:12:07,698 --> 01:12:09,450
What's your connotation for hippies?
1410
01:12:10,368 --> 01:12:13,222
Cause I don't think any of
us are really hippies here.
1411
01:12:13,246 --> 01:12:15,265
Well, fine.
1412
01:12:15,289 --> 01:12:17,017
I don't even think anybody
really knows what a hippie is.
1413
01:12:17,041 --> 01:12:18,644
My little catalyst here.
1414
01:12:18,668 --> 01:12:20,938
You're playing devils
advocate, I love that.
1415
01:12:20,962 --> 01:12:23,607
Well I use the word hippie merely for
1416
01:12:23,631 --> 01:12:25,692
the purposes of identification.
1417
01:12:25,716 --> 01:12:27,528
What I was trying to say,
I'll tell you exactly
1418
01:12:27,552 --> 01:12:30,823
how it is I was about 21 when
they started using stuff.
1419
01:12:30,847 --> 01:12:33,826
When I finally got into
Synanon at the tender age
1420
01:12:33,850 --> 01:12:37,079
of 46 I thought I was 21,
1421
01:12:37,103 --> 01:12:39,623
You know the false eyelashes,
which I still wear,
1422
01:12:39,647 --> 01:12:41,291
but I don't wear the mascara with it,
1423
01:12:41,315 --> 01:12:42,709
I don't wear tight dresses.
1424
01:12:42,733 --> 01:12:44,670
I wore dresses shorter than you kids,
1425
01:12:44,694 --> 01:12:49,657
I really thought I was 21 my
growing processing stopped.
1426
01:12:49,824 --> 01:12:52,386
You know and I said hippie merely
1427
01:12:52,410 --> 01:12:56,598
because it's a word that's
very much in the papers,
1428
01:12:56,622 --> 01:12:58,725
on every bodies lips today.
1429
01:12:58,749 --> 01:13:01,311
But I don't think, well let me say
1430
01:13:01,335 --> 01:13:03,522
this I don't think I'm being presumptions,
1431
01:13:03,546 --> 01:13:06,984
I know I am not being
presumptuous you know why?
1432
01:13:07,008 --> 01:13:09,695
All these thousands of
junkie that have known
1433
01:13:09,719 --> 01:13:14,074
in my 23 years of hell
were kids exactly like you.
1434
01:13:14,098 --> 01:13:16,577
I'm exactly like you are, I was.
1435
01:13:16,601 --> 01:13:17,619
Yeah, I have another question.
1436
01:13:17,643 --> 01:13:18,538
Please.
1437
01:13:18,562 --> 01:13:21,373
You made it seem obvious that anyone
1438
01:13:21,397 --> 01:13:23,917
who takes drugs or let's say marijuana
1439
01:13:23,941 --> 01:13:28,905
is seeking some kind of mind satisfaction
1440
01:13:29,405 --> 01:13:32,801
or that they have worries and you also say
1441
01:13:32,825 --> 01:13:34,636
that they need psychiatric help.
1442
01:13:34,660 --> 01:13:37,806
I don't think it's necessarily true
1443
01:13:37,830 --> 01:13:40,475
that anyone who tries pot
needs psychiatric help
1444
01:13:40,499 --> 01:13:43,770
because marijuana is
very much like cigarettes
1445
01:13:43,794 --> 01:13:45,147
you have many kids right here in
1446
01:13:45,171 --> 01:13:46,398
this audience who sit down
1447
01:13:46,422 --> 01:13:49,026
and smoke or drink occasionally
1448
01:13:49,050 --> 01:13:53,655
and I think if a pot smoker
needs psychiatric help
1449
01:13:53,679 --> 01:13:55,115
they need just as much psychiatric
1450
01:13:55,139 --> 01:13:56,557
help as any other pot smoker.
1451
01:13:58,684 --> 01:14:02,623
You know I have been
generalizing all along
1452
01:14:02,647 --> 01:14:06,460
but I guess in your case
I have to individualize.
1453
01:14:06,484 --> 01:14:09,296
There are some people that I know who only
1454
01:14:09,320 --> 01:14:12,198
smoked marijuana and
never graduated to heroin.
1455
01:14:13,240 --> 01:14:15,677
This is what you're saying right?
1456
01:14:15,701 --> 01:14:17,054
I mean you say some of them smoke
1457
01:14:17,078 --> 01:14:18,764
and don't need psychiatric help.
1458
01:14:18,788 --> 01:14:20,515
Well I have six people that
1459
01:14:20,539 --> 01:14:23,268
I counted friends who use marijuana
1460
01:14:23,292 --> 01:14:27,272
and true they never did
graduate to heroin you know why?
1461
01:14:27,296 --> 01:14:31,068
Because on marijuana they
committed crimes of passion
1462
01:14:31,092 --> 01:14:32,819
and were electrocuted before they
1463
01:14:32,843 --> 01:14:35,322
got a chance to get hooked on horse.
1464
01:14:35,346 --> 01:14:38,408
Now that's anything I tell you is factual.
1465
01:14:38,432 --> 01:14:42,079
They were electrocuted in
the electric chair at Raiford
1466
01:14:42,103 --> 01:14:45,374
and at Sing Sing for
murder that they committed
1467
01:14:45,398 --> 01:14:48,502
while using marijuana now I repeat,
1468
01:14:48,526 --> 01:14:51,213
you wanna individualize, yes I'm sure
1469
01:14:51,237 --> 01:14:53,090
I can find people who tried.
1470
01:14:53,114 --> 01:14:55,092
You know nor does he
know until he has tried
1471
01:14:55,116 --> 01:14:57,886
one stick of pot and
didn't get anything in it.
1472
01:14:57,910 --> 01:15:00,639
And he stopped I also know kids in Florida
1473
01:15:00,663 --> 01:15:02,641
who smoked Oregano and anybody
1474
01:15:02,665 --> 01:15:04,393
who cooked knows it's just herb.
1475
01:15:04,417 --> 01:15:06,019
And they got a little dizzy or they got
1476
01:15:06,043 --> 01:15:09,189
a little bit taste of it
and man this is the end.
1477
01:15:09,213 --> 01:15:10,273
You don't know that the hell you're doing.
1478
01:15:10,297 --> 01:15:12,401
Somebody gives you anything, catnip.
1479
01:15:12,425 --> 01:15:14,736
You know thyme, and rolls
it up in a cigarette
1480
01:15:14,760 --> 01:15:16,697
and you think you got high on it.
1481
01:15:16,721 --> 01:15:18,573
That's how psychological it is.
1482
01:15:18,597 --> 01:15:21,576
Ans I repeat if you
smoke marijuana, you know
1483
01:15:21,600 --> 01:15:23,120
if you think about smoking marijuana
1484
01:15:23,144 --> 01:15:24,913
there's something wrong up stairs
1485
01:15:24,937 --> 01:15:27,040
and you do need a little psychiatric help.
1486
01:15:27,064 --> 01:15:30,293
Now how much you need might
be contingent on whether
1487
01:15:30,317 --> 01:15:32,921
you continue, there are some
people who take one stick
1488
01:15:32,945 --> 01:15:34,381
and don't do it again.
1489
01:15:34,405 --> 01:15:36,299
But there are very, very few
1490
01:15:36,323 --> 01:15:39,720
and I wouldn't count on
being one of the lucky ones.
1491
01:15:39,744 --> 01:15:41,555
Yes dear, yes dear?
1492
01:15:41,579 --> 01:15:43,306
Did you ever get yellow jaundice?
1493
01:15:43,330 --> 01:15:44,790
Yellow jaundice?
1494
01:15:46,625 --> 01:15:47,710
A bout six times.
1495
01:15:50,087 --> 01:15:53,316
Yellow jaundice is a
disease, it's a liver disease
1496
01:15:53,340 --> 01:15:55,318
you turn yellow, your eyeballs
1497
01:15:55,342 --> 01:15:57,195
are yellow instead of bloodshot red
1498
01:15:57,219 --> 01:16:00,657
and it comes from a dirty needle.
1499
01:16:00,681 --> 01:16:03,285
Using a needle that somebody else used
1500
01:16:03,309 --> 01:16:06,705
and possible there's a drop of
blood in it that intermingles
1501
01:16:06,729 --> 01:16:10,500
and it's a very devastating disease.
1502
01:16:10,524 --> 01:16:11,543
We have time
for one more question.
1503
01:16:11,567 --> 01:16:12,378
Yes dear?
1504
01:16:12,402 --> 01:16:13,795
You said to drop a dime.
1505
01:16:13,819 --> 01:16:14,630
Yeah.
1506
01:16:14,654 --> 01:16:16,631
Well for my experience I would say
1507
01:16:16,655 --> 01:16:19,843
that if each of us dropped
a dime on every one
1508
01:16:19,867 --> 01:16:22,971
of our friends that we knew that's using.
1509
01:16:22,995 --> 01:16:24,347
It would eventually get back to you?
1510
01:16:24,371 --> 01:16:25,748
No, no, no.
1511
01:16:27,374 --> 01:16:30,228
That's not, I would say about 85 percent
1512
01:16:30,252 --> 01:16:33,315
of our friends would
be, they'd lock them up.
1513
01:16:33,339 --> 01:16:35,734
What does that tell you?
1514
01:16:35,758 --> 01:16:38,070
You sit here and you call me presumptuous,
1515
01:16:38,094 --> 01:16:41,698
you would say and we'll take it as off
1516
01:16:41,722 --> 01:16:45,660
the top statistic 85 percent
of your friends would be,
1517
01:16:45,684 --> 01:16:48,288
there you go well think about it,
1518
01:16:48,312 --> 01:16:50,457
think about it if somebody doesn't drop
1519
01:16:50,481 --> 01:16:52,667
a dime on them you're
gonna be the lucky girl
1520
01:16:52,691 --> 01:16:55,504
who has to write 85
percent of your letters
1521
01:16:55,528 --> 01:16:59,508
to kids in one jail or another
cause you count them friends.
1522
01:16:59,532 --> 01:17:01,843
Drop a dime on them,
somebody will take it up,
1523
01:17:01,867 --> 01:17:04,888
somebody somewhere will take it up.
1524
01:17:04,912 --> 01:17:06,473
Wouldn't you rather help them now
1525
01:17:06,497 --> 01:17:09,017
then have to write to them
and send them packages?
1526
01:17:09,041 --> 01:17:10,602
Wouldn't you rather
help them now when they
1527
01:17:10,626 --> 01:17:13,730
get help and not the stigma
of a criminal record?
1528
01:17:13,754 --> 01:17:14,754
Think about it.
1529
01:17:15,673 --> 01:17:19,361
You are your brothers keeper,
you must remember that.
1530
01:17:19,385 --> 01:17:21,738
You are your brothers keeper.
1531
01:17:21,762 --> 01:17:22,888
Help them.
1532
01:17:30,437 --> 01:17:34,316
You contend
that use of hard drugs.
1533
01:17:35,568 --> 01:17:36,920
In an interview following
1534
01:17:36,944 --> 01:17:39,548
her talk Florrie Fisher was asked about
1535
01:17:39,572 --> 01:17:42,467
her first trip back to New York city after
1536
01:17:42,491 --> 01:17:45,137
she gave up using drugs and the things
1537
01:17:45,161 --> 01:17:48,682
she saw that made her
realize what she had escaped.
1538
01:17:48,706 --> 01:17:50,433
I came back to New York on
1539
01:17:50,457 --> 01:17:52,710
a sales trip for Synanon in September.
1540
01:17:53,794 --> 01:17:57,190
And Synanon is at 35 Riverside Drive
1541
01:17:57,214 --> 01:17:59,693
which I believe is 75th street.
1542
01:17:59,717 --> 01:18:04,364
And I walked up from 75th
street to 96th street
1543
01:18:04,388 --> 01:18:07,159
on Broadway this is
the area that I hustled
1544
01:18:07,183 --> 01:18:09,327
that I bought dope, that I sold dope,
1545
01:18:09,351 --> 01:18:12,021
that I slept 24 hours a day
1546
01:18:13,564 --> 01:18:16,751
and I was frightened to death,
I just didn't believe it.
1547
01:18:16,775 --> 01:18:18,962
I saw women that I had known ten years
1548
01:18:18,986 --> 01:18:21,715
before that were young beautiful girls
1549
01:18:21,739 --> 01:18:23,425
and they were walking down the street
1550
01:18:23,449 --> 01:18:26,803
with run over shoes
that didn't have heels,
1551
01:18:26,827 --> 01:18:30,289
skirts that were pinned together, hanging.
1552
01:18:31,624 --> 01:18:36,587
Almost nothing on top,
filthy, dirty and every part
1553
01:18:37,379 --> 01:18:41,193
of their exposed arms and legs had running
1554
01:18:41,217 --> 01:18:43,862
abscesses that I recognized were
1555
01:18:43,886 --> 01:18:46,555
from dirty needles and bad stuff.
1556
01:18:47,723 --> 01:18:49,701
And it frightened me so that I
1557
01:18:49,725 --> 01:18:52,144
had decided to walk up and walk back.
1558
01:18:53,020 --> 01:18:55,040
With the good sense to be as scared
1559
01:18:55,064 --> 01:18:57,375
as I was I snatched a cab and I ran
1560
01:18:57,399 --> 01:18:59,693
back to the sanctity of my home.
1561
01:19:11,872 --> 01:19:14,517
"Round round out of your mind."
1562
01:19:14,541 --> 01:19:17,854
"You think you're seeing
things I know you're blind."
1563
01:19:17,878 --> 01:19:21,483
"A million bright colors
explode in your head."
1564
01:19:21,507 --> 01:19:25,237
"Today you're just high
tomorrow you're dead."
1565
01:19:25,261 --> 01:19:28,722
"Round round round round."
1566
01:19:32,226 --> 01:19:34,496
And it isn't
until we have an accident
1567
01:19:34,520 --> 01:19:38,649
that we seriously ask ourselves
why we had that extra drink.
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