DT: "drugs are...bad?"

The Daily Trojan has been running an (annual?) series this week on drugs. Since we here at USC like to put our Greek friends first, the package kicked off with yesterday's coke story, the saga of a (no doubt) frat boy using coke up to once a week (!) until finally having a "bad crash" in which he couldn't stop crying while out at the club. No word on whether the coked-out sorostitute got off his dick, though. Don't worry, "Although [the expert] said cocaine is not extremely difficult to stop doing, it is a drug that people still like to use." Hooray for the Row!
Even better, though, they big-upped the west side of Hoover today with a barely veiled approval of psylocibin mushrooms. And yes, the headline starts with "'Shrooms..." Our anonymous hippie here, at one point, did shrooms an astounding once a week. He goes on to discuss the "amazing" and "mind-cleansing" properties of the fungi, expound on the necessity of sherpas or "baby-sitters" and admits (I shit you not, this was in the DT), "I definitely saw dragons in the clouds on the beach." Whhhhoooaaaa, man, like can you even imagine the fucking implications of that proposition? Certainly, though, our campus paper wouldn't condone such behavior? Hmm...

"The physical effects, which appear within 20 minutes of ingestion and last between four and six hours, include drowsiness and lack of coordination.

Kevin Weissman, a pharmacist and director of the Drug Information Center at LAC+USC Medical Center, said other side effects include dilated pupils, confusion, vertigo and muscular weakness. But, those are only the physical effects.

'The psychedelic effects are distortions of space and time, mood alterations and sensory distortion, such as people seeing music and color,' he said."

Oh, shit! That sounds...enticing.

Unbelievable. Tomorrow, the DT on how to perfectly sync Dark Side of the Moon and The Wizard of Oz, plus tips on getting bongwater out of upholstery.