LSD: Insight or Insanity? (1967)

Sidney Cohen: Self

Quotes 

• Dr. Sidney Cohen : I've spoken to a large number of young people, asking them, "Why do you take LSD?" They've given me a variety of answers. The most frequent are the following.

  Teenage Girl : I took it the first time, because I was curious.

  Teenage Boy : Under LSD, God is not a faraway idea. He's something that's right inside you - that you're experiencing now.

  Teenage Girl #2 : I took LSD for a kick.

  Teenage Boy #2 : Man, LSD is like a vitamin for the brain. I mean, to expand your mind.

  Teenage Boy #3 : LSD stimulates creativity in the brain. In other words, it expands your - your thought process to, so that you can take in more.

• Dr. Sidney Cohen : Creativity is 90% perspiration and only 10% inspiration. And, LSD doesn't enhance ones desire to perspire.

  Teenage Boy : LSD is a - is a really groovy way to find out more about the things around you.

  Teenage Girl #2 : LSD helps you understand the whole world better.

  Teenage Boy #3 : LSD helps you to understand your own mind. It releases your mind to you.

  Teenage Boy #2 : LSD is a way about finding out about yourself. About your own problems.