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“We live in a chemical oriented society. One would be hard put to find someone in the present-day civilization who is not affected by this fact. I have even found that there is such a thing as the ‘Drug Personality.’”
L. Ron Hubbard
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However revelatory Mr. Hubbard’s original drug research, with continued investigation through the late 1970s yet another insidious problem came to light: Even years after quitting drugs and repairing all immediate damage, the former drug user remained at risk. At the core of his problem lay what Mr. Hubbard discovered were tiny residues of previously ingested drugs lodged in the fatty tissues of the body. Liable to activate at any time, it is these residues that account for what is commonly termed the flashback, and has proven so especially disturbing to those who have experimented with LSD. Indeed, even years after ingestion, former drug users have found themselves on horrifying and unpredictable trips. Moreover, as Mr. Hubbard next discovered, street drugs were not the only detrimental substances to lodge in the fatty tissues. In fact, virtually every kind of drug, chemical poison, preservative, pesticide and industrial waste that we regularly ingest can lodge in the tissues and do us harm.
That revelation—and L. Ron Hubbard was unquestionably the first to recognize it—held profound ramifications. Consider, for example, a subsequent Environmental Protection Agency report admitting the average American consumes some four pounds of pesticides each year while retaining over 400 potentially dangerous substances in the body. What all this spells in terms of ill health and shortened life, the Environmental Protection Agency cannot say. But one fact is abundantly clear from both Mr. Hubbard’s original research and secondary medical studies: Those toxic substances do much to diminish our ability to act, think and perceive.
The damage is done in this way: Given the body is essentially a communication system, with the brain acting as a switchboard for the translation of thought into action, biochemical substances can be devastating—actually disrupting the normal pattern of thought. Needless to say, these toxic substances also do much to inhibit our learning rate, our memory and all else necessary for our spiritual well-being.
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