Mihail Pautovmedic, IC Fundeni · Doctor Mihail - Medic specialist în chirurgie generală, Educator de sănătate

În anii ‘60, LSD-ul era văzut ca un instrument de explorare a minții și creativității.

16 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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A short monologue from a YouTube video discussing LSD’s cultural impact in the late 1950s–1960s: how psychedelic use influenced art, music and collective thinking, its association with the anti-war movement, and the speaker’s claim that political motives drove LSD’s criminalization (including the assertion that LSD is illegal everywhere except North Korea).

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You see what LSD did to society. When LSD became used by the creative communities in the, in the late 50s, early 60s, it changed art. I mean, the psychedelia, you know, was an enormously powerful art movement. It changed music, psychedelic music, it changed society. People thought differently. LSD is the first drug to be banned because it changed the way people voted. There was a famous, famous statement, make love, not war. Yeah. And the American government didn't want that. So they couldn't ban the anti war movement, but they could ban the drug. So they banned the drug associated with the anti war movement. LSD is illegal in any country except North Korea because North Korea doesn't sign up to any international convention.