University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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. . ax-. OUT OF MIND One-way trips from homework to hell MIKE, A CLEANCUT STUDIOUS type from a small town, had never so much as hit on a joint when he moved his gear into a University of Michigan dorm to start freshman year. When I got here, I was totally against drugs, said Mike, a senior. Then I saw people who were bright using them, and they were able to have good experiences . . . Mike bought marijuana for the first time that fall, four years ago. By final exams in the spring he was smoking hashish and dropping acid regularly. Since then Mike has ingested an assortment of drugs including mushrooms, n it rous oxide (laughing gas), opium and cocaine. His first acid trip . taken with friends in the Arboretum was a real mind opener. I was looking at the sky, filled with wonder, Mike said. It made me feel like a child again, lacking all inhibitions. I was not bothered by pressures of the future and the present. On a career-conscious. campus infested with yuppies, it ' s easy to dismiss the heavy drug use of the Big Chill 1 960s as an aberration in the history of American youth. But today ' s students, though dressed for success, are still doing drugs. Just for different reasons. Drugs have lost their political symbolism. Smoking pot is no longer an act of rebellion. The 1980s have no acid apostle, no Timothy Leary urging students to Turn on and Tune out. CONTINUED By Jill Oserowsky ILLUSTRATIONS BY ED RIOJAS MICHIGAN LIFE 29

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30 MICHIGAN ENSIAN