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Wouldn't a person of average intelligence, who wasn't a drug user, have seen the obvious risk?
by neilv 2y ago
Wouldn't a person of average intelligence, who wasn't a drug user, have seen the obvious risk?
- morkalork 2y agoNo. That's the entire point. As the other poster said, Owsley was the first large scale producer of LSD. Obvious risk of what? Up until then, the risks you're talking about didn't even exist, let alone being common knowledge.
- neilv 2y agoSo they thought it didn't matter that people wouldn't know what drug they're getting, so no need to handle the obvious fact that they won't?
- lamp_book 2y agoI read that book as well and it was pretty clear they wanted people to take it without exactly knowing what they were getting into; at least, it escalated to that point. They being Ken Kesey and his group more so than the Dead. One of the core bus riders eventually quit because he saw it as non consensual dosing. That was my takeaway anyway - there is a good amount of ambiguity in the way the book is written.
- morkalork 2y agoThere are some events in the book that are reported by other writers and the difference in interpretation is uh not small.
- neilv 2y agoSigh. I know one of the children of one of the people who was in the Ken Kesey group. I don't know what to hope about whether my friend's parent knew or didn't know that they were being dosed.
- morkalork 2y agoAre you talking about the party-goers or the organizers. The attendees did not have a good idea of what they were getting into. The organizers were comically amateur-ish.