Instant Insanity Drugs by W. Cleon Skousen – Lecture Notes

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-one user boasted of not having ill effects from taking it and slashed out the eyes of her son

-one boy used it then found himself in jail and asked what have I done raped someone? He had killed his mother.

-some young users ran into a home killing a baby

-one boy saw himself become a monster and his family become monsters, he screams and jumped a window falling 13 stories and dying

-1/20 of first-time users have terrible nightmare experiences, but one never knows when it could happen in their continued use.

-many go to mental institutions for prolonged time for using it.

-even 2 years after using the drug reports have been received of the user being in hallucinations and depression.

-university labs have distributed it

-a potent dose of it is colorless tasteless and odorless and is microscopic

-in one ounce there are 280,000 doses

-one ounce would be worth about 1,400,000$.

-sometimes it’s kept in bottles named mouth wash, or in solid forms, or in sugar cubes, chewing gum, or gum flaps of envelopes, or in a cigarette holding 50,000 dollars’ worth

-International Liberation for Internal Freedom was a formal cultist group lead by college professors organizing people in acid usage.

-“The League of Spiritual Discovery” was a religion made by a Dr. to allow him to use these drugs he made this religion

-LSD takes away the personality of a person, turning them into a mental vegetable with no desire to set goals and struggle.

-an ounce of LSD could cause 300,000 people to be mentally disoriented, hence it’s considered a lethal war weapon

-“The Beyond Within” speaks of an LSD attack to a city and its effects; in 1/2 a day another city could take them over easily

-60% of users who have a “bad trip” have to be committed to metal hospitals.

-LSD can affect the chromosomes of the user, effecting the offspring of the user.

-LSD causes users to feel like they should not exist, and to start to use heroin etc.

-heroin users often get to the point where 75$ a day are required to feed the addiction

-heroin users when don’t have their drug the body violently reacts.

-Marijuana is classified as a sedative

-Marijuana brings sexual promiscuity

-Marijuana causes brazen disregard of other people

-Marijuana causes some users to become permanently insane.

-withdrawal from heroin users are known to stay awake for weeks at a time and they rest only in states of a coma.

-those who have been on heroine will often return to it even after going through withdrawals and what would appear to be the recovery product.

-these drugs are usually offered to youth by their close friends and peers rather than professional dealers

-One Policeman kept this from a heroin user, “King Heroin is my shepherd, I shall always want. He maketh me to lie down in the gutters.”

“He leadeth me beside the troubled waters. He destroyeth my soul. He leadeth me in the paths of wickedness.”

“Yea, I shall walk through the valley of poverty and will fear no evil for thou, Heroin, art with me.”

“Thy needle and thy capsule comfort me.”

“Thou strippest the table of groceries in the presence of my family.”

“Thou robbest my head of reason. My cup of sorrow runneth over.”

“Surely heroin addiction shall stalk me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the damned forever.”

-all studies show that the youth involved in genuine religion don’t get involved in narcotics

-studies show that those who get involved in narcotics are those who feel bored and not challenged in life

-studies show that those youth who have positive peers close to them don’t get involved in narcotics.

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