BY MICHAEL E. TRULSON, Ph.D.

FROM THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PSYCHOACTIVE DRUGS,  SOLOMON H, SNYDER, M.D., EDITOR, CHELSEA HOUSE; 1985.

This 128-page book tells you more than you ever dreamed in your wildest hallucination that you wanted to know about LSD. It is one of a series of books on psychoactive drugs that might be sold at reduced prices in supermarkets if you buy $10.00 worth of groceries (cigarettes and alcohol excluded). Or they could be given as a bonus if you order 10 records or compact discs from the Columbia Record Club. Its thick shiny cover is impervious to spills of sodium bicarbonate, diethyl ether, or whatever else you are using in your basement to make your crack. Although the series does not bear the seal of approval of Parents Magazine or Good Housekeeping, it nevertheless is an indispensable guide to the worried parent who regularly spirits drops of his or her adolescent's urine from the toilet seat in order to have it tested for cannabis or alkaloid metabolites. The book is replete with photographs of the terrible things that can happen to you if you drop acid. You could even grow a third testicle, as did Timothy Leary (see photograph). The series editor and the writer of the introductory essay have distinguished credentials, but the scare tactics that permeate the book will only serve, as did Reefer Madness, to alarm parents and amuse their children.