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- Narrator: They come in all different shapes and sizes and range in age from teenyboppers to nineteen year olds. But, just like in the old days, teenagers have always shared one thing in common: they've always found a unique way to express themselves - as individuals.
- Narrator: Today, just like always, clothes have been the groovy way of really expressing yourself. And teenagers can always be counted to do something very real and very self expressive.
- Narrator: Hair has always been very important. Yes, even with boys. Its been very short and even longer than a Beatles.
- Narrator: Certain hair styles may make it necessary to take a good look to see which is the girl and which is the boy.
- Narrator: Even adults admit it. Growing up isn't easy. Especially if you try to keep up with the dares and fads of some of your "advanced" friends. Two of the more "advanced" fads have to do with drugs.
- "Advanced" Friend: So, why do you want to be down when you can be up? Please, try it once. Okay?
- Narrator: Why, with the help of a good, kind friend, you can be turned on, make the scene, blow grass, smoke reefers or pot, joints or Mary Janes. Those are just a few of the cool, groovy names for marijuana.
- Narrator: If grass doesn't make it for you, baby, and especially if you need to be "in"; well, you can always drop a cap of acid. And that's the real stuff. Very, very cool. Very, very groovy.
- Narrator: Now, everybody who takes it admits that there's always the risk of a bad trip, a bummer, a freak-out, even a flip-out. But, why be lame, baby? Give yourself a real kick. Yes, a kick in the head!
- Dr. Adey W. Ross: Normal people react to LSD by seeing strange patterns of wildly moving colors. Time may appear to stand completely still. Faces may appear and, then, melt away. And at other times, the subject may recall, with terrifying detail, incidents that are long, long forgotten. At the same time, there is often a loss of the normal cause and effect relationships of things going on in the environment. And this leads to the distortion of judgement.
- Dr. J. Thomas Ungerleider: In spite of the risks, the word was out. LSD was "it". One pill and all unhappiness would vanish. The real meaning of existence would become quickly clear. Such nonsense!
- 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.
- Dr. J. Thomas Ungerleider: There is much conflicting opinion as to why LSD should prove so popular with so many teenagers. Psychiatrists do have some ideas. One is that teenage, is a time of life that's full of conflict. It's a time when people are struggling with who they are, what they want to become. A time when they're dealing with their own sexual and angry feelings. Its a time for rebellion. A time for experimentation. A time for dares. A time for fads.
- Dr. J. Thomas Ungerleider: It's unfortunate, however, that LSD has proven to be such an "in" fad. Unfortunate, not because LSD is wicked or sinful, of itself; but, because it is such an extremely dangerous drug. A drug whose affects are so unpredictable. A drug which so often causes severe, long-lasting damage.