From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is The Story.

I'm Luke Jones.

Here is part of an interview with the subject just before LSD is to be administered.

Los Angeles in the mid-1950s.

In this TV show, a young woman is shown in a black dress

sitting rigidly across a small table from a man in a suit.

My husband was an employee here at the DA

and he told me that they were looking for normal people

and I volunteered.

I see. Do you feel you're normal?

I hope I'm normal.

The suit is researcher Dr. Sidney Cohen

and the young woman who in true 1950s archival style is only identified as housewife,

go back and forth a bit, but finally decide that she is indeed normal.

And then they come to the point.

Well, I think it's time for you to have your lysurgic acid.

Drink this down, and we'll be back after a while and see how you're

doing.

This is a glass of water, colorless, tasteless.

It contains 100 gamma of LSD 25, one-tenth of a milligram, equivalent of one-sixth of a grain.

An ounce of this material will make 150,000 such doses.

Let us observe the effect some three hours later.

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