1 00:00:02,044 --> 00:00:03,480 Hey kiddies gather around 2 00:00:03,504 --> 00:00:05,255 the man with the goodies is here. 3 00:00:06,173 --> 00:00:07,901 Here's a little beauty from me you youty, 4 00:00:07,925 --> 00:00:10,695 just inhale and sniff, it is airplane glue. 5 00:00:10,719 --> 00:00:11,614 Oh whiff man and you. 6 00:00:11,638 --> 00:00:13,781 Isn't it true that sniffing glue 7 00:00:13,805 --> 00:00:15,617 can damage your liver and kidneys? 8 00:00:15,641 --> 00:00:17,535 Cool it kid, looky 9 00:00:17,559 --> 00:00:20,121 amphetamines, benny's, dexy's, meth. 10 00:00:20,145 --> 00:00:21,581 They say amphetamines can 11 00:00:21,605 --> 00:00:23,833 cause something like schizophrene. 12 00:00:23,857 --> 00:00:27,212 Schizophrene, in most cases it does not last. 13 00:00:27,236 --> 00:00:28,236 Cool it kid. 14 00:00:29,154 --> 00:00:32,342 Now for the bobs, neato, nice easy downers. 15 00:00:32,366 --> 00:00:35,345 With drawls from barbiturates can cause convulsions. 16 00:00:35,369 --> 00:00:36,930 Will you convulse yourself outta here? 17 00:00:36,954 --> 00:00:38,973 Grass, anything wrong with pot? 18 00:00:38,997 --> 00:00:42,477 They're not sure yet, they just started studying about it. 19 00:00:42,501 --> 00:00:43,354 Worry wart. 20 00:00:43,378 --> 00:00:46,272 Dig everybody, LSD. 21 00:00:46,296 --> 00:00:49,234 Bad trips and a chance of chromosome damage. 22 00:00:49,258 --> 00:00:50,610 How do yo know you got chromosomes? 23 00:00:50,634 --> 00:00:52,737 Everything you got there can hurt you, can't it? 24 00:00:52,761 --> 00:00:55,389 Sure kid, why do you think they call it dope. 25 00:00:56,765 --> 00:00:58,684 Hey where's everybody going? 26 00:01:10,821 --> 00:01:12,799 Mitch is all business. 27 00:01:12,823 --> 00:01:15,176 The free ride is over if David 28 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:17,929 wants more reds it'll cost him. 29 00:01:17,953 --> 00:01:19,847 He'll have to come up with the bread. 30 00:01:19,871 --> 00:01:22,225 How that's his business. 31 00:01:22,249 --> 00:01:23,893 Everyone else is doing it. 32 00:01:23,917 --> 00:01:25,562 If David wants to be one of the crowd 33 00:01:25,586 --> 00:01:27,355 he'll have to fall in line. 34 00:01:27,379 --> 00:01:29,065 David doesn't want to be left out, 35 00:01:29,089 --> 00:01:31,192 to lose his new found friends 36 00:01:31,216 --> 00:01:34,821 and he does consider Henry and Mitch his friends. 37 00:01:34,845 --> 00:01:36,597 He assures them he"ll get the money. 38 00:01:45,439 --> 00:01:47,899 He saved his allowance but it wasn't enough. 39 00:01:49,526 --> 00:01:51,629 He started to hoard the money his mother gave him 40 00:01:51,653 --> 00:01:53,363 for juice with his school lunch. 41 00:01:56,241 --> 00:01:57,451 And he went without. 42 00:02:05,626 --> 00:02:08,670 And he began to steal coins from his mothers purse. 43 00:02:14,343 --> 00:02:17,196 Pooling all the money he could lay his hands on. 44 00:02:17,220 --> 00:02:18,990 His allowance, his lunch money, 45 00:02:19,014 --> 00:02:20,450 and what he could pilfer, 46 00:02:20,474 --> 00:02:23,369 David soon has saved several dollars. 47 00:02:23,393 --> 00:02:24,704 And when his mother treats him 48 00:02:24,728 --> 00:02:28,207 to a movie he adds this money as well. 49 00:02:28,231 --> 00:02:30,984 By now he has enough for a sizable score. 50 00:02:33,487 --> 00:02:35,465 David's eager to see Mitch. 51 00:02:35,489 --> 00:02:37,258 And Henry agrees to take him to a place 52 00:02:37,282 --> 00:02:38,926 where his brother often hangs out with 53 00:02:38,950 --> 00:02:42,430 his friends to smoke pot or drop some pills. 54 00:02:42,454 --> 00:02:43,454 Turn on. 55 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:07,038 What's going on? 56 00:03:07,062 --> 00:03:08,062 Beats me. 57 00:03:35,799 --> 00:03:37,276 It's Karen. 58 00:03:37,300 --> 00:03:38,528 What happened? 59 00:03:38,552 --> 00:03:40,071 She must have ODed. 60 00:03:40,095 --> 00:03:41,698 Is she dead? 61 00:03:41,722 --> 00:03:43,700 Yeah, come on. 62 00:03:43,724 --> 00:03:45,702 But she was Mitch's girl shouldn't we. 63 00:03:45,726 --> 00:03:49,020 Look don't you fink, don't you dare fink. 64 00:03:53,942 --> 00:03:56,003 The next day school, 65 00:03:56,027 --> 00:03:57,922 going to classes, being with 66 00:03:57,946 --> 00:04:00,967 the other kids is a nightmare for David. 67 00:04:00,991 --> 00:04:03,386 Pretending nothing had happened while carrying 68 00:04:03,410 --> 00:04:05,930 the burden of his terrible knowledge. 69 00:04:05,954 --> 00:04:09,225 He is disturbed, shaken, he's afraid 70 00:04:09,249 --> 00:04:10,852 but he doesn't know what to do. 71 00:04:10,876 --> 00:04:13,771 He feels he must tell someone what he knows 72 00:04:13,795 --> 00:04:16,607 and yet he doesn't want to rat on his new friends. 73 00:04:16,631 --> 00:04:20,194 Henry realizes that David is up tight about the whole thing. 74 00:04:20,218 --> 00:04:22,780 He tries to put him at ease, he even offers 75 00:04:22,804 --> 00:04:25,199 him a couple of reds for free to make 76 00:04:25,223 --> 00:04:28,185 his problems go away but David declines. 77 00:05:01,635 --> 00:05:05,198 Mitch has been arrested, busted. 78 00:05:05,222 --> 00:05:06,431 They're taking him away. 79 00:05:08,809 --> 00:05:12,521 Someone had talked, someone had told about Karen. 80 00:05:16,316 --> 00:05:18,211 She hadn't been able to get a big enough 81 00:05:18,235 --> 00:05:20,421 or quick enough high, she had taken 82 00:05:20,445 --> 00:05:23,365 an overdose Mitch had been supplying her. 83 00:05:24,699 --> 00:05:27,720 The thoughts are whirling around in Davids head. 84 00:05:27,744 --> 00:05:31,724 Henry, Karen, Mitch, the realization 85 00:05:31,748 --> 00:05:33,810 of the grave consequences of getting mixed 86 00:05:33,834 --> 00:05:36,711 up with drugs and narcotics crowds in on him. 87 00:05:44,761 --> 00:05:46,489 Hey good catch. 88 00:05:46,513 --> 00:05:47,513 Yeah. 89 00:05:52,727 --> 00:05:54,831 That's one way of getting it around. 90 00:05:54,855 --> 00:05:55,666 What? 91 00:05:55,690 --> 00:05:57,232 Narcotics information. 92 00:05:58,066 --> 00:05:59,043 Did you read it? 93 00:05:59,067 --> 00:06:00,169 No. 94 00:06:00,193 --> 00:06:02,255 Why not, you might learn something. 95 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:03,714 Like what? 96 00:06:03,738 --> 00:06:05,198 Like what's it's all about. 97 00:06:06,491 --> 00:06:08,368 How come you know so much about it? 98 00:06:09,494 --> 00:06:12,723 I was a user, no more I quite 99 00:06:12,747 --> 00:06:14,892 before I got hooked for good. 100 00:06:14,916 --> 00:06:16,543 I found out the facts about drugs. 101 00:06:17,961 --> 00:06:18,961 It's right here. 102 00:06:20,463 --> 00:06:21,463 Let's take a walk. 103 00:06:25,218 --> 00:06:27,613 You know to be a user and not to be a user 104 00:06:27,637 --> 00:06:29,240 is one of the most important decisions 105 00:06:29,264 --> 00:06:30,908 you'll ever have to make. 106 00:06:30,932 --> 00:06:33,786 And the decisions yours and yours alone. 107 00:06:33,810 --> 00:06:36,455 Isn't it worth getting at the truth before making it? 108 00:06:36,479 --> 00:06:38,291 Yeah, I guess so. 109 00:06:38,315 --> 00:06:40,042 Once you've turned on you don't know 110 00:06:40,066 --> 00:06:41,919 anymore when you get really hooked, 111 00:06:41,943 --> 00:06:44,463 when it becomes impossible for you to stop. 112 00:06:44,487 --> 00:06:46,215 The best thing is never to start, 113 00:06:46,239 --> 00:06:50,720 second best of you're on something get off now and stay off. 114 00:06:50,744 --> 00:06:53,806 Yeah if it's hard stuff but just smoking grass, 115 00:06:53,830 --> 00:06:56,309 that's no worse than smoking cigarettes 116 00:06:56,333 --> 00:06:57,852 or taking a drinK that's supposed to be bad 117 00:06:57,876 --> 00:07:01,314 for you to but people still do it so why not pot? 118 00:07:01,338 --> 00:07:04,358 Oh come on don't give me that you know better. 119 00:07:04,382 --> 00:07:06,110 Sure smoking's bad for you, 120 00:07:06,134 --> 00:07:08,779 sure drinking too much can mess you up everybody 121 00:07:08,803 --> 00:07:11,073 knows that but is that any reason to start 122 00:07:11,097 --> 00:07:14,952 on one more stupid hangup like smoking gras or turning on? 123 00:07:14,976 --> 00:07:16,662 What's so bad about pot? 124 00:07:16,686 --> 00:07:18,915 Okay let's go over it together. 125 00:07:18,939 --> 00:07:21,459 Marijuana, pot is a weed that grows 126 00:07:21,483 --> 00:07:23,210 wild in many parts of the world. 127 00:07:23,234 --> 00:07:26,547 It's an Indian hemp plant called cannabis sativa. 128 00:07:26,571 --> 00:07:29,258 All of it, the leaf, the stem, 129 00:07:29,282 --> 00:07:31,552 and the seeds can be used for smoking. 130 00:07:31,576 --> 00:07:33,220 The effects on a smoker depends 131 00:07:33,244 --> 00:07:36,515 on the quality and the amount of pot smoked. 132 00:07:36,539 --> 00:07:38,893 Everyone reacts in a different way to it 133 00:07:38,917 --> 00:07:41,562 and there's no telling how it will effect you. 134 00:07:41,586 --> 00:07:43,481 You lose touch with the real world, 135 00:07:43,505 --> 00:07:45,858 your senses become distorted and you can't function 136 00:07:45,882 --> 00:07:47,777 normally and your judgment of what you're 137 00:07:47,801 --> 00:07:51,096 doing becomes faulty and that can be very dangerous. 138 00:07:52,013 --> 00:07:53,991 Pot may not be physically addictive like 139 00:07:54,015 --> 00:07:57,119 the hard stuff but you come to depend on it, 140 00:07:57,143 --> 00:07:59,330 after a while you just gotta have it. 141 00:07:59,354 --> 00:08:02,083 In that way it is like smoking cigarettes. 142 00:08:02,107 --> 00:08:05,002 Have you ever seen a heavy smoker trying to quit? 143 00:08:05,026 --> 00:08:09,447 Well it's like that, only more so, much more so. 144 00:08:10,365 --> 00:08:13,135 And as for your drinking bit pot can make you 145 00:08:13,159 --> 00:08:15,537 act just as rattle brained as if you were drunk. 146 00:08:16,746 --> 00:08:19,016 If you blow pot regularly after a while 147 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:21,227 you get a real I don't care attitude 148 00:08:21,251 --> 00:08:23,646 about everything, just think about what would happen 149 00:08:23,670 --> 00:08:25,898 if everyone had that kind of an attitude. 150 00:08:25,922 --> 00:08:27,483 There are times when everyone of us has 151 00:08:27,507 --> 00:08:31,445 to depend on someone else, I'm sure you've had to. 152 00:08:31,469 --> 00:08:34,240 Suppose they had the I don't care attitude 153 00:08:34,264 --> 00:08:36,057 of a pot smoker when you needed them. 154 00:08:39,060 --> 00:08:40,997 Some scientists who have studied the effects 155 00:08:41,021 --> 00:08:43,791 of pot smoking say it's very bad for you. 156 00:08:43,815 --> 00:08:46,085 Others say it's not, but one thing 157 00:08:46,109 --> 00:08:48,921 they do agree on, it isn't good for you. 158 00:08:48,945 --> 00:08:50,339 We'll have to wait for more tests 159 00:08:50,363 --> 00:08:52,883 before we'll know just how bad it is. 160 00:08:52,907 --> 00:08:55,928 If you blow pot you take a chance 161 00:08:55,952 --> 00:08:58,389 of blowing your whole future. 162 00:08:58,413 --> 00:09:00,099 What's the sense in doing that? 163 00:09:00,123 --> 00:09:02,435 But isn't it good for something? 164 00:09:02,459 --> 00:09:04,895 Negative man, marijuana has no medical 165 00:09:04,919 --> 00:09:07,481 use like pills do for instance. 166 00:09:07,505 --> 00:09:09,442 Yeah, what about pills? 167 00:09:09,466 --> 00:09:10,568 Doctors give them to people, 168 00:09:10,592 --> 00:09:13,195 there can't be any harm in them. 169 00:09:13,219 --> 00:09:14,739 Depends. 170 00:09:14,763 --> 00:09:15,906 Not when they're prescribed by 171 00:09:15,930 --> 00:09:18,534 a doctor to help cure some illness. 172 00:09:18,558 --> 00:09:20,536 There's a big fat difference between 173 00:09:20,560 --> 00:09:23,080 taking drugs on prescription to get well 174 00:09:23,104 --> 00:09:25,541 and taking them for kicks to get high. 175 00:09:25,565 --> 00:09:27,960 A doctor has had years of training, 176 00:09:27,984 --> 00:09:30,629 when he gives you a pill he knows why you need it, 177 00:09:30,653 --> 00:09:32,840 he knows what and how much to give you, 178 00:09:32,864 --> 00:09:34,324 he knows what it'll do to you. 179 00:09:35,617 --> 00:09:37,511 What do you think a dealer knows about 180 00:09:37,535 --> 00:09:40,830 things like that, his lack of knowledge may cost you. 181 00:09:44,709 --> 00:09:47,396 Pills and caps fall into two main categories, 182 00:09:47,420 --> 00:09:50,900 amphetamines uppers and barbiturates downers. 183 00:09:50,924 --> 00:09:52,902 Uppers are stimulants directly affect 184 00:09:52,926 --> 00:09:55,988 your central nervous system, your brain and spinal cord. 185 00:09:56,012 --> 00:09:58,449 They come in many shapes and colors with slang names 186 00:09:58,473 --> 00:10:00,701 such as benny's, dexy's, and harts. 187 00:10:00,725 --> 00:10:03,621 Often they're bought on the street rolled in tin foil. 188 00:10:03,645 --> 00:10:06,082 One of the most dangerous, mephedrone, 189 00:10:06,106 --> 00:10:09,251 also called meth or speed comes in both tablet 190 00:10:09,275 --> 00:10:10,336 and powder form. 191 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:14,739 It's very, very true that speed kills, it has many times. 192 00:10:15,949 --> 00:10:18,469 Under a doctors care amphetamines and barbiturates 193 00:10:18,493 --> 00:10:21,055 are used to treat various medical problems. 194 00:10:21,079 --> 00:10:23,265 But taken for kicks it's another story. 195 00:10:23,289 --> 00:10:26,644 Unchecked abuse may lead to dependency, even addiction. 196 00:10:26,668 --> 00:10:29,438 The user becomes confused, aggressive, 197 00:10:29,462 --> 00:10:31,065 irrational, and reckless. 198 00:10:31,089 --> 00:10:34,902 In bad cases it may even lead to a serious mental disorder. 199 00:10:34,926 --> 00:10:38,614 Barbiturates, downers, are depressants. 200 00:10:38,638 --> 00:10:41,534 The opposite of uppers and even more dangerous. 201 00:10:41,558 --> 00:10:44,870 One of the most dangerous is seconal, reds. 202 00:10:44,894 --> 00:10:46,539 There are many downers on the market 203 00:10:46,563 --> 00:10:49,291 with slang names such as reds, yellows, 204 00:10:49,315 --> 00:10:52,336 pink ladies, blue heavens, and rainbows. 205 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:54,713 Downers are addictive, you have to have more 206 00:10:54,737 --> 00:10:56,215 and more of the drug because your body 207 00:10:56,239 --> 00:11:00,719 gets used to it until you may well take an overdose, OD. 208 00:11:00,743 --> 00:11:03,097 More people died from downer ODs 209 00:11:03,121 --> 00:11:06,291 in the United States one year than were killed by guns. 210 00:11:07,333 --> 00:11:09,562 Sure popping pills may feel great 211 00:11:09,586 --> 00:11:12,940 at the moment but in the end it'll destroy you. 212 00:11:12,964 --> 00:11:15,109 A dealer will try to get you hooked on something 213 00:11:15,133 --> 00:11:17,987 that will make you come back to him, like reds. 214 00:11:18,011 --> 00:11:18,947 He'll tell you that you'll get 215 00:11:18,971 --> 00:11:21,448 a bigger high from stronger stuff. 216 00:11:21,472 --> 00:11:24,743 LSD, even heroin, it becomes easier 217 00:11:24,767 --> 00:11:26,769 to go onto the next step all the time. 218 00:11:28,146 --> 00:11:31,792 LSD is a very powerful and very destructive hallucinogen. 219 00:11:31,816 --> 00:11:34,128 It comes in tablet or powder form 220 00:11:34,152 --> 00:11:37,673 or as a liquid and it is most often taken by mouth, 221 00:11:37,697 --> 00:11:40,050 perhaps over a sugar cube. 222 00:11:40,074 --> 00:11:41,886 The effect on the mind is frightening, 223 00:11:41,910 --> 00:11:44,263 completely unpredictable. 224 00:11:44,287 --> 00:11:46,623 The trip can be the hope for heaven. 225 00:11:49,334 --> 00:11:50,728 Or it can be a hell of horrors 226 00:11:50,752 --> 00:11:52,337 from which you may never return. 227 00:11:54,464 --> 00:11:55,482 A lot of young people have 228 00:11:55,506 --> 00:11:57,193 become permanently deranged through 229 00:11:57,217 --> 00:11:59,445 a single terrifying trip. 230 00:11:59,469 --> 00:12:01,804 Or have destroyed themselves while freaking out. 231 00:12:02,680 --> 00:12:06,434 Neither LSD nor heroin has any real medical uses. 232 00:12:07,518 --> 00:12:10,789 Heroin addiction is the end of the road for the user. 233 00:12:10,813 --> 00:12:13,584 The way back is almost impossible. 234 00:12:13,608 --> 00:12:15,294 Withdrawal from the deadly narcotic 235 00:12:15,318 --> 00:12:17,612 is extremely dangerous and painful. 236 00:12:18,571 --> 00:12:21,366 A heroin high could put you six feet under. 237 00:12:22,283 --> 00:12:24,720 And think about this, nearly every 238 00:12:24,744 --> 00:12:27,306 heroin addict began by blowing pot. 239 00:12:27,330 --> 00:12:29,433 And every last one of them never 240 00:12:29,457 --> 00:12:32,144 thought that he'd go onto the hard stuff. 241 00:12:32,168 --> 00:12:34,462 That's something that happens to the other guy. 242 00:12:37,048 --> 00:12:38,984 And here's something else to consider. 243 00:12:39,008 --> 00:12:42,446 From pot to heroin, it's against the law to posses it, 244 00:12:42,470 --> 00:12:45,324 to sell it, to give it away, even to be 245 00:12:45,348 --> 00:12:48,535 in a place where illegal drugs or narcotics are being used. 246 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:50,454 You can be arrested, get yourself 247 00:12:50,478 --> 00:12:53,290 a police record that may hurt you all your life 248 00:12:53,314 --> 00:12:54,959 and it's just plain stupid to blame 249 00:12:54,983 --> 00:12:57,670 the police officer like some heads do. 250 00:12:57,694 --> 00:12:59,713 He's only doing the job that we 251 00:12:59,737 --> 00:13:01,507 the people have hired him to do. 252 00:13:01,531 --> 00:13:03,842 Upholding the laws that protect us all. 253 00:13:03,866 --> 00:13:06,136 It makes a lot more sense to help him. 254 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:06,930 How? 255 00:13:06,954 --> 00:13:08,097 Well you may feel that you don't 256 00:13:08,121 --> 00:13:09,598 want to tell on your friends 257 00:13:09,622 --> 00:13:12,268 but maybe that kind of loyalty's misplaced. 258 00:13:12,292 --> 00:13:14,103 The fact is the dealer who wants 259 00:13:14,127 --> 00:13:17,189 to turn you on is not your friend. 260 00:13:17,213 --> 00:13:20,067 He will abandon you at once if there's trouble. 261 00:13:20,091 --> 00:13:23,404 Drug friend ships are not real friendships. 262 00:13:23,428 --> 00:13:24,905 Who's really your friend, 263 00:13:24,929 --> 00:13:27,783 the one that wants to get you on self destructive drugs, 264 00:13:27,807 --> 00:13:30,327 who's eager to mess up your life. 265 00:13:30,351 --> 00:13:32,830 Or the one who wants to steer you clear of them, 266 00:13:32,854 --> 00:13:36,441 to point out the very real dangers to you, honestly. 267 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:40,796 Using narcotics or abusing drugs is nothing 268 00:13:40,820 --> 00:13:43,048 but a cop out from life, an escape 269 00:13:43,072 --> 00:13:45,843 from having to face up to everyday problems. 270 00:13:45,867 --> 00:13:48,053 Everyone has hangups and problems, 271 00:13:48,077 --> 00:13:50,556 growing up means learning to cope with them. 272 00:13:50,580 --> 00:13:52,516 They don't go away by themselves 273 00:13:52,540 --> 00:13:54,685 and drugs only make them worse. 274 00:13:54,709 --> 00:13:56,729 By using them we only deny ourselves 275 00:13:56,753 --> 00:13:58,147 the ability to become mature 276 00:13:58,171 --> 00:14:02,234 and responsible and have a chance of real happiness. 277 00:14:02,258 --> 00:14:04,695 Drug addicts on the average live 20 to 25 278 00:14:04,719 --> 00:14:06,196 years less than they would if 279 00:14:06,220 --> 00:14:09,074 they didn't pollute their bodies and minds with narcotics. 280 00:14:09,098 --> 00:14:11,577 We all know how the earth is being polluted. 281 00:14:11,601 --> 00:14:13,454 You don't believe in pollution do you, 282 00:14:13,478 --> 00:14:15,956 polluting the water and the soil and the air. 283 00:14:15,980 --> 00:14:17,458 Of course not. 284 00:14:17,482 --> 00:14:18,293 You want it stopped? 285 00:14:18,317 --> 00:14:19,543 Sure. 286 00:14:19,567 --> 00:14:21,337 What are you doing about it? 287 00:14:21,361 --> 00:14:23,047 You're kidding, what can I do? 288 00:14:23,071 --> 00:14:25,257 Well for one thing, one very important 289 00:14:25,281 --> 00:14:28,242 thing you can decided not to pollute your own body. 290 00:14:29,619 --> 00:14:30,888 The pollution that's being blown 291 00:14:30,912 --> 00:14:32,681 into the atmosphere everyday, 292 00:14:32,705 --> 00:14:35,392 fouling the air we breath is no different 293 00:14:35,416 --> 00:14:36,560 from the pollution you draw into 294 00:14:36,584 --> 00:14:38,169 your lungs when you smoke pot. 295 00:14:39,337 --> 00:14:41,648 The sewage being dropping into the water polluting 296 00:14:41,672 --> 00:14:43,984 and poisoning it is really no different 297 00:14:44,008 --> 00:14:45,611 than the drugs you put into your body 298 00:14:45,635 --> 00:14:48,113 when you drop pills or acid. 299 00:14:48,137 --> 00:14:50,074 If you had an aquarium with beautiful fish 300 00:14:50,098 --> 00:14:52,683 in it you wouldn't pour poison into it would you? 301 00:14:55,353 --> 00:14:57,998 Then why put poison into your own body? 302 00:14:58,022 --> 00:14:59,249 You never really know what's in 303 00:14:59,273 --> 00:15:01,377 the drugs or narcotics you get. 304 00:15:01,401 --> 00:15:04,046 Most dealers don't know themselves. 305 00:15:04,070 --> 00:15:05,798 They're in it to make a buck, 306 00:15:05,822 --> 00:15:07,925 a lot of stuff has all kinds of junk mixed 307 00:15:07,949 --> 00:15:10,427 into it to make it stretch further. 308 00:15:10,451 --> 00:15:12,262 You can be sure of only one thing, 309 00:15:12,286 --> 00:15:14,932 it will pollute your body and your mind. 310 00:15:14,956 --> 00:15:17,351 If you're smart you'll say no to drugs, 311 00:15:17,375 --> 00:15:19,853 you'll say no to this chemical cop out. 312 00:15:19,877 --> 00:15:22,564 Yeah but who wants to be called chicken? 313 00:15:22,588 --> 00:15:25,025 Chicken who's really chicken? 314 00:15:25,049 --> 00:15:28,237 The guy who must go along with the crowd at any cost, 315 00:15:28,261 --> 00:15:29,822 or the guy who has the guts to take 316 00:15:29,846 --> 00:15:31,657 a stand for what he knows is right 317 00:15:31,681 --> 00:15:34,451 even if it's not the popular thing to do? 318 00:15:34,475 --> 00:15:35,875 Think about it man, think about it. 319 00:15:40,648 --> 00:15:42,084 David is impressed. 320 00:15:42,108 --> 00:15:44,193 He has been given a lot to think about. 321 00:15:45,736 --> 00:15:47,673 He's promised his mother to pick up his brother. 322 00:15:47,697 --> 00:15:50,884 Eddy at the grade school, his old school. 323 00:15:50,908 --> 00:15:53,244 But when he gets there he doesn't see him around 324 00:15:55,204 --> 00:15:57,182 he learns that Eddy and a couple of his friends 325 00:15:57,206 --> 00:15:59,143 went on down to a construction site 326 00:15:59,167 --> 00:16:01,169 where they're putting in storm drains. 327 00:16:13,764 --> 00:16:15,975 David goes down to get him. 328 00:16:35,953 --> 00:16:40,225 David is shaken, not Eddy, not his little brother. 329 00:16:40,249 --> 00:16:42,769 This could be the start, sniffing. 330 00:16:42,793 --> 00:16:46,881 Whether it's glue or an aerosol can or what have you. 331 00:16:47,924 --> 00:16:50,277 It's just as bad, just as dangerous 332 00:16:50,301 --> 00:16:51,987 as the rest of the drug scene. 333 00:16:52,011 --> 00:16:55,908 It to can cause permanent damage, it can even kill. 334 00:16:55,932 --> 00:16:59,244 There are lots of things David has to tell his brother. 335 00:16:59,268 --> 00:17:04,232 Drugs and narcotics not only turn you on, they turn on you. 336 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:07,669 Don't pollute your body and your mind with them. 337 00:17:07,693 --> 00:17:10,464 It's your decision, just remember 338 00:17:10,488 --> 00:17:15,451 there are a 1,000 reasons why users end up losers. 339 00:17:20,498 --> 00:17:21,934 You are looking at a traveler 340 00:17:21,958 --> 00:17:25,437 who just bought a ticket for a very special kind of trip. 341 00:17:25,461 --> 00:17:29,233 The cost, a few dollars and his mind. 342 00:17:29,257 --> 00:17:32,301 Over which he will shortly have very little or no control. 343 00:17:34,470 --> 00:17:36,573 Now most of his preparations have been made 344 00:17:36,597 --> 00:17:38,266 and he's just about ready to go. 345 00:17:39,183 --> 00:17:41,995 He won't have to leave this room if he doesn't want to 346 00:17:42,019 --> 00:17:43,497 but he'll travel so far that 347 00:17:43,521 --> 00:17:45,898 he may get lost and never come back. 348 00:17:48,609 --> 00:17:50,254 Transportation of the fantastic 349 00:17:50,278 --> 00:17:52,238 and frightening territory of interspace, 350 00:17:53,406 --> 00:17:55,008 courtesy of the most powerful mind 351 00:17:55,032 --> 00:17:56,701 altering drug ever discovered. 352 00:17:57,785 --> 00:18:00,746 Destination unknown, curtesy LSD-25. 353 00:18:29,859 --> 00:18:31,378 My full chemical name is. 354 00:18:31,402 --> 00:18:35,591 Dextrol lysergic acid diethylamide tartrate 25. 355 00:18:35,615 --> 00:18:37,843 But as everyone knows I'm called LSD 356 00:18:37,867 --> 00:18:41,179 for short though I'm also called acid 357 00:18:41,203 --> 00:18:43,181 and by some highly unflattering names 358 00:18:43,205 --> 00:18:45,374 by those who wish I'd never been discovered. 359 00:18:47,001 --> 00:18:50,439 Right now some 200 micrograms of my substance 360 00:18:50,463 --> 00:18:52,316 has just entered his body 361 00:18:52,340 --> 00:18:54,192 and already my potent molecules 362 00:18:54,216 --> 00:18:55,777 are on their way to his brain where 363 00:18:55,801 --> 00:18:58,554 they will trigger some very special chemistry. 364 00:18:59,639 --> 00:19:01,199 And in just a few minuets now I will 365 00:19:01,223 --> 00:19:03,309 show him glimpses of distorted beauty 366 00:19:04,352 --> 00:19:07,229 or tumble him into a terrifying private hell. 367 00:19:08,689 --> 00:19:09,833 But at just this moment neither 368 00:19:09,857 --> 00:19:13,712 he nor I know the direction or destination 369 00:19:13,736 --> 00:19:16,030 of the trip we're about to take together. 370 00:19:18,074 --> 00:19:20,761 "Round round out of your mind." 371 00:19:20,785 --> 00:19:24,139 "You think you're seeing things I know you're blind." 372 00:19:24,163 --> 00:19:27,392 "A million bright colors explode in your head." 373 00:19:27,416 --> 00:19:30,812 "Today you're just high tomorrow you're dead." 374 00:19:30,836 --> 00:19:34,298 "Round round round round." 375 00:19:35,216 --> 00:19:38,570 Round, round out of your mind. 376 00:19:38,594 --> 00:19:39,905 That's right. 377 00:19:39,929 --> 00:19:41,323 And as you might imagine not all 378 00:19:41,347 --> 00:19:42,991 of the people who know about me 379 00:19:43,015 --> 00:19:46,244 approve of what I am or what I do. 380 00:19:46,268 --> 00:19:47,913 These people for example have seen 381 00:19:47,937 --> 00:19:51,315 my effects and think I'm a total disaster. 382 00:19:52,608 --> 00:19:54,252 But they know to that I am part of the scene 383 00:19:54,276 --> 00:19:56,922 and that I can be purchased much more 384 00:19:56,946 --> 00:19:59,007 easily than you might think. 385 00:19:59,031 --> 00:20:00,050 Well I think it's pretty easy 386 00:20:00,074 --> 00:20:02,844 because, well like this one last night 387 00:20:02,868 --> 00:20:03,721 this one dude walked up 388 00:20:03,745 --> 00:20:06,580 and he just handed me some so I just went ahead and took it. 389 00:20:07,623 --> 00:20:11,645 You can be standing on a street corner 390 00:20:11,669 --> 00:20:14,940 and somebody will approach you. 391 00:20:14,964 --> 00:20:16,483 It's too easy to get acid, 392 00:20:16,507 --> 00:20:19,528 there's too many beeboppers running around town. 393 00:20:19,552 --> 00:20:22,239 I can get acid by simply calling a friend 394 00:20:22,263 --> 00:20:24,658 and I can get as much or as little 395 00:20:24,682 --> 00:20:27,452 as I want within a very short amount of time. 396 00:20:27,476 --> 00:20:28,912 Acid for me is very easy to get, 397 00:20:28,936 --> 00:20:31,373 I can get it from anywhere, from four blocks 398 00:20:31,397 --> 00:20:33,733 to ten block of my house in about 20 minutes. 399 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, 405 00:20:49,165 --> 00:20:50,350 they're brains are a wreck, 406 00:20:50,374 --> 00:20:52,978 they go into institutions, they're through 407 00:20:53,002 --> 00:20:53,813 for the rest of their life. 408 00:20:53,837 --> 00:20:56,398 And I read some silly things about kids falling 409 00:20:56,422 --> 00:20:58,024 out of trees and painting them selves green 410 00:20:58,048 --> 00:21:01,987 and yellow and it's rather stupid to me. 411 00:21:02,011 --> 00:21:02,822 It's no good. 412 00:21:02,846 --> 00:21:04,406 They're taking it in sugar cubes, 413 00:21:04,430 --> 00:21:06,116 it's being dropped into their punch. 414 00:21:06,140 --> 00:21:08,201 Well truthfully my friend I know nothing about it, 415 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. 417 00:21:12,438 --> 00:21:15,167 We gotta do something about this, don't you think so? 418 00:21:15,191 --> 00:21:16,871 But I don't know, I don't know with these. 419 00:21:19,528 --> 00:21:20,797 I've become a favorite topic 420 00:21:20,821 --> 00:21:23,633 of conversation almost everywhere. 421 00:21:23,657 --> 00:21:25,510 At the mere mention of my three letter name 422 00:21:25,534 --> 00:21:27,846 is enough to send certain rioters running 423 00:21:27,870 --> 00:21:31,123 to turn out sure selling articles on how horrible I am. 424 00:21:32,249 --> 00:21:35,103 As publishers know I'm good copy. 425 00:21:35,127 --> 00:21:36,855 And since there's so much information 426 00:21:36,879 --> 00:21:39,691 and misinformation about me it's 427 00:21:39,715 --> 00:21:42,426 easy to keep the LSD pot boiling. 428 00:21:56,690 --> 00:21:58,543 Well that sort of thing is bad for 429 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. 432 00:22:08,786 --> 00:22:11,473 There hasn't been a case reported yet 433 00:22:11,497 --> 00:22:12,998 where I poisoned anyone. 434 00:22:20,172 --> 00:22:22,651 But speaking frankly a lot of my most ardent 435 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 438 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 441 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 443 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 453 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 458 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. 462 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. 466 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. 470 00:24:14,244 --> 00:24:16,473 But I'm one of the most powerful nothings 471 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 474 00:24:27,174 --> 00:24:31,011 smaller than such potent drugs as strychnine or cyanide. 475 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? 479 00:24:46,318 --> 00:24:48,380 The head of a pin can hold enough of me to send 480 00:24:48,404 --> 00:24:50,698 a room full of people out of their minds. 481 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. 485 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. 489 00:25:16,724 --> 00:25:18,493 With just a very few micro grams 490 00:25:18,517 --> 00:25:22,831 of me inside the body colors, shapes, smells, textures, 491 00:25:22,855 --> 00:25:24,833 the whole range of things that can be seen, 492 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 496 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 499 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 506 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 513 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.