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Author: Hollis, H. H.
Title: Stoned counsel
In: Again, Dangerous Visions, (Edited by Harlan Ellison)
Publisher: Doubleday and Co., New York
Pages: 270-281
Date: 1972
Format: Short story
Descriptor: Drugs as mind-expanders
Annotation:In world of near future hallucinogenic drugs have become a routine part of the legal process. Lawyers examine evidence that is fed to them in direct association with LSD and other drugs, and trials are conducted with prosecutors and defense attorneys both in a drug-enhanced mental state. Approach of the story is sympathetic and detached; drug-enhancement is depicted as a new phase, not necessarily negative in implication, in courtroom procedure.




Author: Jones, Langdon
Title: The eye of the lens
In: The Eye of the Lens (By Langdon Jones)
Publisher: Collier Books, New York
Pages: 53-90
Date: 1972
Format: Short novel
Descriptor: Drugs as mind-expanders
Annotation:Avant-garde story without summarizable plot: it attempts to depict various cinematic and psychedelic modes of perception and includes (p. 84) an explicitly psychedelic scene within a British cathedral of the near future where hallucinatory religious rituals take place.






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