Re:Legal Liabilities... (Score 1)

"I wonder what they could have done to you if they found the book in your locker. Would it have been enough to get you in trouble? Or is it freedom of thought, your right to read whatever you want?? I have been seeing a trend of less freedom, at least it feels like a trend. But you said this was '73. I was reading in the papers some elementary school kids got arrested because one painted a picture of classmates getting shot. I guess after columbine, that's the way it is. I just had a funny thought. You know most of the stuff in the cookbook is BS, that won't work, or that will explode injuring the person trying to mix chemicals together. Wouldn't it be something if the government wrote the cookbook, then distributed it."

At the time the cookbook was banned in California and possession would have gotten me expelled and possibly charged with a misdemeanor. This was a time when civil unrest was a major concern to the government with groups like the Simbionese(sp?) liberation army and other such taking violent actions against government and civil institutions. Also the many protests against the Vietnam war which turned violent, unsettling times.

As far as the recepies in the book were concerned I knew better than to even consider trying most of them. My chemistry teacher in High School was familiar with the cookbook and described the dangers of several of the recopies. Thank you Mr. Stradley, as I was tempted to try out some of them out of sheer curiosity and youthful ignorance.