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The government could also make money from the sales of safer drugs with restrictions. Opposed to drug dealers profiting from the distribution of dirty drugs.

A pill does not construct character, educate the emotions, or improve intelligence. It is not a spiritual laborsaving device, salvation, instant wisdom, or a shortcut to maturity. However, it can be an opportunity to experience oneself and the world in a new way and to learn from it.

Mainstream 1960s media, specifically television, strongly dictated views and opinions of the American mind, in result influencing the government and LSD becoming illegal. “Media controlled the conservative mind, at least influencing it as a majority.” By 1970, 95% of American households had a television set. Television influenced presidential campaigns, human relations, and wars. Specifically in mainstream 1960s media, television would prove to reshape the character of the entire political process. In 1960, the television debates monumentally persuaded the presidential election. New president John F. Kennedy stated “It was TV more than anything else that turned the tide.”

Mainstream media appealed to the conservative mind set, concentrating on the conservative 30 and older ideal of Americanism or the American dream. A sense of comfort in mainstream media was portrayed using money, power, suburbia and the idea of a perfect family, through situation comedies. Television shows such as “Leave It to Beaver”, “The Andy Williams Family Hour”, “Donny and Marie”, and “I Love Lucy”, all penetrated themes of comfort and comic relief through the realities of student protests, non conformity, and sexual and neurological advancements. Mainstream media and counterculture media were specifically differentiated. Mainstream media’s reaction to LSD, was a concentration of negativity. According to mainstream media LSD was “evil” and “made people crazy.” This one sided opinion of the drug allowed no room for justifications or education of LSD. There was a “journalistic exaggeration of the dangers of LSD” and the media’s oppositions to the drug were highly recognized by the conservative majority. LSD separated itself from the idea of the American dream and presented itself as a potential problem with no beneficial results. LSD was a problem and threat, which only contributed to the political chaos and corruption of society in an unstable decade. Mainstream media instilled the comfort, in its public, that if LSD were made illegal, it would become completely void. Therefore media having a direct influence on the opinions of the majority of society, influenced the government and LSD becoming illegal, without any room for education or rational justification within the opposition. “Laws enacted in a climate of ignorance and hysteria would almost certainly create more problems than they solved.”

“Acid is not some anachronism, unfamiliar to us today.” In this quotation, Professor James Martin displays the reality of LSD in present day society. LSD use will continue outside government control and knowledge, as long as drug dealers are interested in making money and drug users are interested in expanding the boundaries of their minds. LSD is far from void, despite it becoming illegal in 1968, remaining a potential danger for anyone who uses it. You can find LSD anywhere today: urban, rural, and suburban. The question about LSD is not of the use of it, but the safety of it, especially since turning from a legal drug into a street drug. The misuse of LSD, is the direct result of ignorance, and absence of education. “Scientific investigations into LSD are at a complete standstill.” The abuses of the drug LSD are not because of faults of the drug or discrepancies of the brain, but not knowing how to use and take advantage of the drug. “Psychedelics are neither good nor bad drugs; they have good and bad usage.” There are many dangers of an uncontrolled substance, with no alternative to expand the mind in the same ways. Americans who gamble with these substances face these dangers everyday. No education to improve on the abuse of LSD, or further experimentation to improve its quality to possibly benefit from the experience of LSD are other significant problems LSD causes. In result “LSD isn’t safe, but drug dealers are becoming rich with profits that should go to the government instead.”

The negative portrayal of LSD in mainstream 1960s media, opposing rational and valid justifications expressed by counterculture activists to further experimentation, investigation and education under government control resulted in the LSD becoming an illegal substance. Since becoming illegal in 1968 LSD has not become void, as falsely represented in mainstream 1960s media, but has become more dangerous and widely used and misused. Government control could be beneficial in providing knowledge to encourage safety and education to prevent abuse and misuse of LSD. Investigations, education and experimentation of LSD could also promote the development of better forms of the drug and further knowledge encouraging therapeutic, spiritual, creative, and intellectual benefits. Another benefit from the education of the government is the contribution to the goal to “learn to have psychedelic experiences without the use of drugs.” Justifications for the use of LSD support the notions of safer, more effective, government benefiting circumstances for a drug, that is widely distributed and consumed despite legal restrictions. If the government doesn’t take control over LSD, the ignorance of users and profits of drug dealers will continue. “Acid will continue to ravage as many people as it liberates and

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