Annotation: Among the many drugs brought back to Earth by space explorers is _Plutonium_, a powder from Pluto that produces a hashish-like derangement of time-perception, permitting the user to transform time into space and go on psychedelic voyages. The subject penetrates five or six hours into the past, an ineffable experience that ends with a vision of his own death soon fulfilled in reality. —————————————————————————————— Author: Barnes, Arthur K. Title: Emotion solution Journal: _Wonder Stories_, Vol. 7, No. 8, 955–963 Publisher: Continental Publications, New York Date: April 1936 Format: Short story Descriptor: Drugs as mind-controllers Annotation: A scientist who feels that emotions are a hindrance to the full development of intelligence perfects a solution that destroys the “emotional centers” of the brain; he infiltrates it into the Southern California water system. The resulting emotionless society is lifeless and without energy, not at all what the scientist envisioned, and he feels guilt for having transformed millions of people into dull robots. —————————————————————————————— Author: Gatter, George F. Title: Emotion gas Journal: _Wonder Stories_, Vol. 7, No. 8, 967–971 Publisher: Continental Publications, New York Date: April 1936 Format: Short story Descriptors: Drugs as mind-controllers; Drugs as euphorics Annotation: Unscrupulous theatrical producers enhance the box-office appeal of their comedy by surreptitiously dosing the audience with a gas that induces euphoria; they leave convinced they have seen an extraordinarily funny show, and business booms, until one night an overdose is given that amplifies not only happy feelings but passing moments of depression, causing everybody to leave in a black despondent mood that kills the show. —————————————————————————————— Author: Coblentz, Stanton A. Title: The glowworm flower Journal: _Astounding Stories_, Vol. 17, No. 4, 22–29 Publisher: Street & Smith Publications, New York Date: June 1936 Format: Short story Descriptor: Drugs as euphorics Annotation: A pioneering space exploration voyage brings back, by accident, spores of an extraterrestrial plant that sprouts on Earth. The flower of this plant gives off a fragrance that induces intoxication, coma, and opium-like visions. Tripping on glowworm-flower fragrance becomes addictive for many of Earth’s finest minds, though lesser folk are relatively immune. The plant is eradicated everywhere, possession of it is made illegal, and all space missions are banned lest spaceships again be contaminated with the sinister spores. —————————————————————————————— Author: Binder, Eando Title: The hormone menace Journal: _Thrilling Wonder Stories_, Vol. 8, No. 1, 34–47 Publisher: Beacon Magazines, Inc., New York