The Skeeter Daddle Diaries

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One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don’t do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she’s ten feet tall — Jefferson Airplane “White Rabbit”

The man who formulated LSD died recently, no doubt an event that caused few raised eyebrows outside Haight Ashbury or the ground troops for the War on Drugs. But … I definitely felt a strong disturbance in the Force. For those who never partook and knew the drug only by the sensational stories in the press, the man was a nameless villain, a purveyor of a very heavy pharmaceutical that made madmen of their children and ruined many a poor boy. For those of us searching for an expanding universe, hoo wheee, the man hit the cosmic jackpot. If I had a tab of windowpane tonight, I might just put it under my tongue and slip off into the Milky Way on a passing comet as a final salute to this unsung chemist.

The Army tried using LSD-25 as an experiment in mind altering interrogations back in the psychedelic 60’s, brought a few soldiers in for a dose, then watched to see how it affected them as reality sheared off into a lateral spin over an abyss the volunteers never saw coming, just a headlong drop off the curve with no guardrails and no bottom. Frightening? Yah, shure, you betcha. Like waking up in the morning with brakes out paranoia lost in a funhouse with no doors out. You’d probably find it a queasy experience. You might not find your way back.

LSD is not for everyone, let’s make that clear to the Army docs. Pulling the rug out from under the unsuspecting, well, you ask me, that’s pretty criminal. For those who say LSD is a gateway drug, all I can say is it’s a gateway all right, but not to more drugs. More a doorway into places few folks have been and most wouldn’t want to visit. But for the adventuresome, hoo-boy, there’s a glimpse into the cosmos, inner and outer, that will last a lifetime. Reality is relative and that’s not a truth most of us want to accept. Insanity is right next door, admittedly, but so is ecstasy. Once you’ve been to either, the world will never be the same. Go ask Alice … when she’s ten feet tall.

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