Subject: Magic cards soaked with LSD??
From: qbert@ix.netcom.com (qbert)
Date: 1996/07/22
Newsgroups: rec.games.trading-Cards.magic.misc

The following was given to me by a close friend, not the one quoted below.

-jc

 FROM:  J. O'Donnel - Danbury Hospital
        Outpatient Chemical Dependency Treatment Service
 
 For all of you who have children..... regardless of their ages.
 
 Please give this your widest possible dissemination:
   
     WARNING TO PARENTS:
   
 A form of "Card Game" called "Magic the Gathering" is being sold to 
 school age children.  The backs of these "cards" have a picture of
 five colored stones arranged in a circle.  They are the size of
 regular playing cards, and each card is soaked with LSD!!
 
 The drug is absorbed through the skin simply by handling the cards.
 
 Each card also has a brightly colored picture on the front, including

 such evil beings as:  Dragons, Demons, Elfs, Wizards, Purple Hippos, 
 etc.
 
 Each pack is wrapped in foil or packed in a cardboard box wrapped in 
 plastic.
 
 This not a new way of selling "Acid", but it is gaining in 
 popularity.  Using the satanic characters is very appealing to 
 children.  No person of any age should ever use these cards, but 
 especially the young, fragile minds and bodies of our children.  They

 are NOT equipped or developed enough to withstand the irreversible 
 damage that is caused,  (which is often Death!)
 
 If you or your child gets any of these, DO NOT HANDLE THEM!  Don't 
 take a chance.  They are laced with drugs.  They are known to react 
 quickly, and some are laced with Strychnine.
 
 Please feel free to reproduce this article and distribute it within 
 your community and workplace.  Get the word out about this danger to 
 our children.  Copy it and post it at your work, give it to friends, 
 send a copy to your local schools, and places of worship.  This is 
 very serious.  Young lives have already been taken.  This is growing 
 faster than we can warn parents and professionals.
  

qbert@ix.netcom.com