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bed bed and breakfast sell (shares) after hours one evening and buy them back as soon as possible the following day, in order to establish a loss for tax purposes.
a bed of nails a problematic or uncomfortable situation. Originally, a board with nails pointing out of it, as lain on by Eastern fakirs and ascetics.
a bed of roses a situation that is comfortable or easy (often used in the negative).
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LSD (Pamphlet)
Newspaper article from: Pamphlet by: National Institute on Drug Abuse; 3/8/1999; 700+ words
; LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is one of the major drugs making up the hallucinogen class. LSD was discovered in 1938 and is one of the most...fungus that grows on rye and other grains. LSD, commonly referred to as "acid," is sold...
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LSD: A Potent Trip; Acid's Effects Are Still a Stunning Puzzle
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/24/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...Sixties through the "Just Say No" Eighties, LSD has always led a double life. To both devotees...elements of both. The best description of an LSD trip, said Daniel X. Freedman, a psychiatrist and pioneer in LSD research, is the one he heard repeatedly...
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LSD: Still With Us After All These Years.
Magazine article from: Reason; 3/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...who had recently seen an article "about how LSD is making a big comeback among the youth of...out of windows while under the influence of LSD. I am very concerned for this new generation of LSD users." The reader urged Landers to publish...
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[ LSD: Witness said suspects used casinos to change currency ]
Newspaper article from: The Topeka Capital-Journal; 2/5/2003; ; 700+ words
; LSD: Drugs were bought with Dutch guilders; money...drug money is laundered into clean money: LSD - Is manufactured in the United States - Goes...Returns to Petaluma, Calif. - Is paid to LSD conspirators Conspirators - Take guilders to...
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LSD helps alcoholics put down the botttle
Newspaper article from: Belfast Telegraph; 10/11/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...A single dose of the hallucinogenic drug LSD is an effective treatment for alcoholism...the University of Alberta, said: "The LSD somehow gave these people experiences that...They reasoned that a single large dose of LSD might have the same effect as experiencing...
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The LSD story. (psychoactive drug)(Drugs)
Magazine article from: Current Health 2, a Weekly Reader publication; 4/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; "We would take LSD on a Friday or Saturday night up in our...brother TJ (not their real names) took LSD a number of times during their high school...and vivid effects. "As my acid trip (LSD experience) went on, late at night, the...
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LSD makes comeback among state's students Interest is highest in a decade, officials say
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 3/24/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...agents have seized at least 50,000 hits of LSD in Wisconsin during the last year in an...mistake." Tips on the use and sale of LSD, or lysergic acid diethylamide, have led...Enforcement Unit. "We've always had LSD around, but it was like a dying drug in...
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Flashback: LSD use by youths spreading Few sound alarm on quiet return
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/2/1997; ; 700+ words
; LSD is back. The drug that embodied the psychedelic...quietly it is happening. By most counts, LSD now is substantially more popular among the...those drugs, there is barely a whisper about LSD. The reason: Even many of those who should...
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I took LSD when I was 15 and my life will never be the same again
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 1/15/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...100th birthday of the man who discovered LSD, Albert Hofmann, a consultant psychiatrist...swallowing a tiny blue pill - microdot acid, or LSD. I have many times tried to describe how...the most simple and incredible fact about LSD is also the one that is hardest to believe...
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Popularity of LSD Surges Among County High School Students
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/26/1995; ; 700+ words
; The powerful hallucinogen LSD -- an odorless, colorless and inexpensive drug -- has...school was found under the influence and in possession of LSD. "The real flagrant appearance of LSD in the schools began this fall," said Mary Field, substance...
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LSD
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
LSD LSD is the abbreviation for lysergic acid diethylamide, a synthetic hallucinogenic...Albert Hofmann in 1938. By disrupting the action of serotonin in the brain, LSD produces markedly abnormal behavior, including psychotic episodes that can...
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Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD)
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed.
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) Definition Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), also known as "acid," belongs to a class of...hallucinogens, which distort perceptions of reality. LSD is the most potent mood- and perception-altering...
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Timothy Leary and LSD
Book article from: American Decades
TIMOTHY LEARY AND LSD Winning the Game Leary was a lecturer in psychology at Harvard...the hallucinogenic drug lysergic acid diethylamide, known as LSD. Leary believed that LSD could be used as a tool against what he called the cultural game...
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Hallucinogens and related disorders
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
...best known hallucinogens are lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), mescaline, psilocybin, and MDMA (ecstasy). Phencyclidine...these changes in perception are caused by the hallucinogen. LSD LSD is the best known and most potent of the hallucinogens...
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Hallucinogens
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology
...laboratories for sale as hallucinogens. LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) and many...effects are similar to those experienced by an LSD user — enhancement of colors and...enhanced their creative prowess. Use of LSD, the most widely known hallucinogen, declined...
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