Annotation: Narrator is an advertising man who tells how, after a cigarettes-and-lung-cancer scare, researchers discover a cheap, allegedly harmless and non-addictive euphoric drug, and it goes on the market in chewing-gum form as a replacement for cigarettes. Soon everyone is chewing _Cheery-Gum_ except the narrator, who is allergic to it; and though the drug is theoretically non-addictive, it makes everyone so high that no one wants to give it up—leading to a dazed and tranquilized society in which everyone is euphoric and indolent and everyone maintains that he could kick the _Cheery-Gum_ habit on a moment’s notice, if he had any reason to do so—which he doesn’t. —————————————————————————————— Author: Slesar, Henry Title: I remember oblivion Journal: _Fantasy and Science Fiction_, Vol. 30, No. 3, 36–43 Publisher: Mercury Press, New York Date: March 1966 Format: Short story Descriptor: Drugs as mind-controllers Annotation: A technique has been devised for literal brainwashing of criminals, i.e., the total eradication through chemotherapy of memory, and the reconstruction, using drugs and “narco-hypnosis,” of a new non-criminal personality within the existing body. The narrative cuts from the conversation of two scientists using the technique to the stream-of-consciousness of a rehabilitated criminal who, breaking through his conditioning, regains access to his memories and commits suicide in his guilt. —————————————————————————————— Author: Keller, David H. Title: The abyss In: _The Solitary Hunters and the Abyss_ Publisher: New Era Publishers, Philadelphia Pages: 108–265 Date: 1948 Format: Novel Descriptor: Drugs as mind-controllers Annotation: A scientist isolates _XYZ_, a chemical present in the minds of psychotics, and, purely as an experiment, doses all of New York City with it by distributing it in the form of chewing gum. Mass psychosis results; civilization collapses and the eight million guinea pigs revert to a sort of Roman culture, with barbaric gladiatorial games, an emperor, mass brutality, new religions. After thirty days the drug wears off and the victims fall into coma and awaken unharmed. —————————————————————————————— Author: MacDonald, John D. Title: Trojan horse laugh Journal: _Astounding Science Fiction_, Vol. 43, No. 6, 73–111 Publisher: Street & Smith Publications, New York Date: August 1949 Format: Short novel Descriptor: Drugs as mind controllers