More Bad Trips on LSD

Irresponsible users of LSD in Southern California, already noted for having tested, with fatal results, the notion that they can fly from tall buildings, last week added more dangers to the list of the drug's effects:

> In Los Angeles, a machinist, aged 29 was charged with "driving under the influence of LSD" after police said he had run through a red light, injured a woman and her daughter in another car. He later told police he remembered nothing about it.

> At the wheel of a speeding, careening truck in downtown Los Angeles, police said they found a driver "naked and incoherent" on LSD. He insisted he remembered nothing about the trip.

> Four Santa Barbara college students lost most of their reading vision by looking straight at the sun. Under LSD they could do this for three or four minutes, hardly squinting and feeling no pain, so their eyes were wide open to the sun's infra-red rays, and the macula, the point of clearest vision in the retina, was badly burned. There is no effective treatment. Explained one boy: "I was holding a religious conversation with the sun."

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