University of Alaska Fairbanks - Denali Yearbook (Fairbanks, AK)

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conversation with himself in the mirror, ine jazz band was inside my head--the stereo was coming out my ears and I could feel the drum sticks beating on the back of my nose. We ate dill pickles with sugar on them, and the more sugar on them the better. My face was so puckered I wondered if I would ever get it straightened out. Time was completely irrelevant. I had never felt so good or carefree. Life had never been so easy or wonderful. I finally fell into a deep sleep filled with vividly colored dreams. After careful contemplation upon waking the next morning, I found I was still the same persion of 24 hours earlier. No great earth shattering changes in personality or trends of thought. I was surprised to find that I had had no terrible hallucinations such as those pictured in magazines as the result of using any form of drugs. A confirmed drug user explained later that no matter what a person takes, Marijuana, LSD, Asthmadore or any of the innumerable other drugs, he will not blow his mind as long as a touch with reality is maintained. Subconsciously at least, you must remember that eventually you will return to reality. Otherwise incidents happen like the man who pictured himself as an orange and thought that if anyone touched him he would turn into juice.

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This same user admitted one time when he had almost lost touch. He smoked Hashish (Turkish pot, much stronger than marijuana) and almost forgot that he was a human being. My visions were so beau- tiful I couldn ' t or didn ' t want to come back. LSD takes much longer to work into your system. You take a dose and then have to sit around for it to take effect. For this reason it is not uncommon to take theacid(LSD) and then smoke pot to start the high out. When taking LSD, a buddy system is employed. It is best to go with someone even if you are an exper- ienced user, and it is imperative for the beginner to have an exper- ienced person to show him the right way. Acid visions are muc h more vivid and wilder than those of pot. For every noise I heard, a color simul- taneously flashed in my brain, and before. It was like having a screen inside my head on which these colors flashed so rapidly at times it mad me dizzy. Though some experts on drug usage and in psychology disclaim the fact that masterpieces can be created during a high, users feel that it is entirely possible. The thoughts you have and the colors you see and could duplicate while high would never occur to the normal mind. A person can definitely become psychologically addicted to pot, just as to cigarettes or alcohol. However, there is no physical craving as In the case of heroin or opium. There are five or six known cases on campus of people who smoke at least four times a day and stay up all the time. Why? You can function quite well while high, and why come down when things are better when you are up. The University in group who use the stuff regularly are a tightly knit bunch. It ' s not that we look down on the other students so much, but we have definite common inter- est which we must protect, so for safety and security we stick tegether. Unless the interested or curious know someone who will supply them, it is almost impossible to get hold of the stuff. The pusher, or seller, as known in other places, does not exist on campus. There is more of a share and share alike society. If I have a large supply, I ' ll sell it to a buddy, but I don ' t run around trying to sell it. Word gets around as to who has it and who has a supply coming in. Interested parties know who to see. Once an in is extablished, it is easy to get hold of anything from pep pills to LSD because they are all present within the group. They are all there if you want to try them, but no one cares if you just want to smoke and not try anything else. They may suggest a different high to you, but never force or egg you to take it. Drugs do exist on campus, and in a greater amount than last year. Pot reportedly has been smoked in campus Johns, on campus lawns and in campus dorm rooms. It ' s fine until some one with a good nose comes along said one smoker. A jar labeled experiment --Do Not Touch sat in a campus refrig- erator. Its contents--LSD. There are an untold number of straights on campus. These are the Joe College crewcut and tie people who try drugs a few times for an experiment, then give it up for various reasons. I could see no future in it or I had no reason to continue. These also include habitual users who don ' t associate with the long haired crowd. Where they get their stuff is a pretty dark secret claims one co- ed. I know pretty much what goes on, but I couldn ' t tell you. Either they have their own supply, or one of the bunch sells it quietly. 29