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Although the consequences of taking LSD vary so much and may be quite pleasant and, in a single dose never repeated, may in some cases be even harmless, its use is quite a gamble. Homicide, suicide, or insanity are always a possible result. In England there was a recent case of a nineteen-year-old student who tried to cheer himself by twice taking it; he jumped through a closed window, fell sixteen feet, broke a collarbone, and collapsed a lung. He had used the commoner, more available, less harmful, weaker, nonchemical drugs for five years without serious injury, but LSD was enough to make him demented!

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 11 : Fanaticism, Money, Powers, Drugs > # 155