No Evidence Of Chch LSD Sales

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31416, 8 July 1967, Page 34

No Evidence Of Chch LSD Sales

The possible sale of the hallucinatory drug LSD in the Christchurch area was a matter under observation, Detective Superintendent F. A. Gordon said yesterday. Some months ago the police had received information to the effect that a person, known to the police to be interested in drug trafficking had made offers suggesting that he had access to LSD. “But there is no evidence of any sales of the drug in Christchurch,” Detective Superintendent Gordon said. “We don’t want it to become a problem and we hope it doesn’t” The Director of Mental Health (Dr. S. W. P. Mirams) said yesterday that LSD was being distributed at high prices by unscrupulous drug pedlars in “phony or adulterated” form, the Press Association reported. Dr. Mirams warned that

substitutes could be fatal because of impurities. He was supported by the head of the chemists’ Service Guild School of Pharmacy, Dr. H. Taylor, who said: “People who buy narcotics or hallucination drugs from doubtful sources are foolish. Impurities can be dangerous.” Chief Superintendent R. J. Walton, head of the C. 1.8., said any substance containing LSD in any quantity was subject to the Narcotics Act "Nobody should be tempted to experiment with this drug," he said. “It can prove fatal and there is grave danger that the mind will be affected. There is considerable risk that LSD will cause psychic dependence, although it does not cause physical addiction.”