Hardly a wild-eyed radical, Henderson is a consultant to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration. The book concludes that adverse health effects of LSD, whether physical or psychiatric, are rare. Add to this the costs of law enforcement, courts, and social services to inmates' dependents. She got 15 years. Goodman has served that much time already and will not be eligible for parole until 2007.
War destroys families and pits people against their own friends and relatives.
Drug prosecutors use children as a wedge to force parents to become informants, according to Virginia Resner, FAMM's San Francisco coordinator. Conspiracy laws originally intended for use against racketeers have found greatly expanded use in the drug war, Resner says. In this drug war, you never have to touch any drugs to become culpable. An informant called their home and asked where he could find Jeff. She knew the caller wished to buy LSD and she answered his question.