‘LSD Danger Exaggerated’
(N.Z. Frets Assn.—Copyright) ADELAIDE, Aug. 21. Danger from the illicit “psychedelic” drug, lysergic acid diethylomide (LSD), has been exaggerated to the point of absurdity, the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science was told yesterday. “The exaggerations have been based on some lurid, isolated accounts of madness and suicide in already-half-psychotic subjects," said Mr R V. Convoy, honorary consulting psychologist at St Vincent’s Hospital, Mebourne. LSD did not produce anything resembling true psychosis in more than a minority of subjects, and created hallucinations in no more than 60 per cent of cases, Mr Convoy added.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32073, 22 August 1969, Page 11
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