Mindbenders Vol 01

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If LSD really provokes hallucinations of tarantulas and Orientals -- as suggested in the FDA’s The Mind-Benders: LSD and the Hallucinogens -- then count me out! Furthermore, it leads to parties with sitars, which we all know means terrible music, games of Go, and open-mouthed droolers. One user talks about the time he was having sex and his lady friend morphed into a "flesh-dripping monster face." Obviously, he’s not used to marriage.

High schoolers’ interest in model planes wanes as they’re turned on to the drug in LSD: Trip or Trap? Peer pressure is tough to ignore, but not as tough as the mod girl who takes a post-trip visit to the hospital with oozing pustules on her hand, or the photo montage of deformed babies whose pregnant mothers were sucking tabs.

In LSD: The Trip to Where?, scientists express their desire to see how LSD would affect monkeys. Hell, who wouldn’t, science degree or no science degree? TIMOTHY LEARY is interviewed, but even he is dwarfed by the presence of B-movie legend RICHARD LYNCH who admits to being an LSD freak that set himself on fire. Gee, from his bravura performances in the likes of God Told Me To, Puppet Master 3, and Scanner Cop, I never would have guessed. Even this short’s director appears onscreen at the end to fess up that he dropped a dose in order to know about the subject he was filming.

Lastly, there’s the cleverly titled LSD, a military-issued diatribe against the drug in which some squeaky-clean, apple-pie officer stands by a blackboard and talks to the camera. Yep, this is a lecture, so we finally learn just what "LSD" must stand for: Lectures Suck... well, you know the rest.
From 16mm acid-happy prints.
-- Rod Lott, Hitch Magazine