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As promised, followup on the expanding investigation
into the drug lab/sex den discovered near the Children’s Museum on the
downtown Boston waterfront. Turns out that the lab was NOT the
biggest methamphetemine lab ever discovered on the East Coast. It was
much more sophisticated than that.
Police seized materials with labels indicating that they belonged
to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, along with an array of
illegal substances including ecstasy, LSD, and marijuana, inside a South
Boston apartment, according to court papers filed yesterday.
Authorities had suggested that the apartment where Kevin McCormick, a 29-year-old
MIT graduate, was found dead on Nov. 13 contained one of the largest crystal
methamphetamine labs found in New England. It now appears, however, that
the operation may instead have focused on making designer drugs, according
to two law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation, who spoke
on condition of anonymity.
Among substances seized were the designer drug MMDA, which produces
effects similar to mild LSD, and hallucinegenic mushrooms.
The investigators also found bottles with labels bearing the names of
other psychedelic drugs.
It is not clear whether any of the drugs were being cultivated or made
at the apartment.
For years, specialists say, enthusiasts of designer drugs have aimed
to discover new drugs or alter existing ones to create the perfect high.
The labs are typically extremely secretive.
Police found the South Boston lab after emergency medical workers called
to the apartment found McCormick, dead from a heart attack during a sex
act, surrounded by chains, wetsuits, and masks, as well as illicit drugs.
Two of his roomates told police he had taken ecstasy hours earlier.
from the Boston Globe
The perfect high, indeed. In our decidedly low key book the perfect
high has nothing to do with chains, wetsuits or masks. However,
this does reveal a long-standing sub-culture within the MIT community.
– geek genius psycho shamen, applying all the tools of modern chemistry
to psychotropic research, and using themselves as guniea pigs.
This is not a new phenomena. We remember, thirty years ago, the organic
chemistry departments of Harvard and MIT were locked in thier own intercollegiate
space race, to design the perfect drug. Every week the lab rats
would scurry out of the depths to display their latest designs and discoveries
at proto-raves in dorm rooms up and down the banks of the Charles. MMDA
was a novelty in those days, along with a veritable alphabet soup of
stimulants, halucinogens, morphine analogs, exotic plant extracts and
even certain substances reputedly available only from living human donors.
As far as we were able to ascertain, the perfect drug was never isolated. It
is interesting to note that the search goes on 30 years later, and that
MIT is still at the forefront of these efforts to expand the frontiers
of science, just as it is undeniably a tradegy that it has cost the life
of a young artist.
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