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"I've never seen such infinite beauty", says 1950s woman on LSD

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The News Minute | March 25, 2015 | 4.09 pm ISTWhatever one thinks of drugs, they have been experimented with, their experiences written about by many.What happens when someone takes LSD? Amercian researcher Sidney Cohen interviews a woman who has agreed to take the drug as a part of research project and asks her to describe her experience. The five-minute video clipping uploaded on YouTube two years ago is still doing the rounds and has been viewed over four lakh times. Did we mention that the experiment was done in the 1950s?Saying that she had never seen “such infinite beauty in my life before”, the woman describes the colours she sees in the air. Towards the end of the clipping, she says that the researcher will never know what she is describing unless he sees for himself, adding that she “felt sorry” for him. Watch the video here: Tweet Follow @thenewsminute

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