Annotation: On Ganymede, moon of Jupiter, grows the gardenia-like plant from which _hellflower_, also known as _love lotus_, is extracted—a narcotic which heightens sensations and other sensory stimuli and creates psychological addiction through enhancement of pleasure—with women the chief victims. Story concerns the traffic in this and related drugs and the attempts of a government agent of the future to intercept it. —————————————————————————————— Author: Devaux, Pierre and Viot, H. G. Title: The stolen minute Journal: _Science Fiction Plus_, Vol. 1, Nos. 4 and 5, 44–61, 42–62 Publisher: Gernsback Publications, Inc., New York Date: June and August 1953 Format: Novel Descriptor: Drugs as mind-expanders Annotation: A French molecular physicist develops a drug known as _hexostyromolybdenum_, HSM, which has the property of vastly increasing the human metabolism. Motion, body speed, the rate of living, and other functions are accelerated 100,000 times. Protagonists make use of HSM to achieve desired political goals. —————————————————————————————— Author: Phillips, Rog (Pseud. for Roger Philip Graham) Title: The yellow pill Journal: _Astounding Science Fiction_, Vol. 62, No. 2, 51–61 Publisher: Street & Smith Publications, New York Date: October 1958 Format: Short story Descriptor: Drugs as reality-testers Annotation: Psychiatrist encounters a patient who has committed murder and who has the delusion that he was on board a spaceship, defending himself against lizard-men from Venus, at the time of the killing. Patient totally denies the reality of actual world, and tells psychiatrist to take a _yellow pill_ that will awaken him to the true reality of the spaceship-world. Psychiatrist is amused by concept of a yellow pill that can bring one out of a delusion; but then he finds a bottle of yellow pills in his locker and the story becomes an exploration of ambiguous levels of reality, with the pills serving as conduits between one “real” world and the other. —————————————————————————————— Author: Hartley, L. P. Title: _Facial Justice_ Publisher: Doubleday & Company, New York Pages: 263 pp. Date: 1960 Format: Novel Descriptor: Drugs as mind-controllers Annotation: The scene is the not very distant future, after the Third World War. Nine tenths of the human race has been destroyed and the survivors are ruled by a benevolent dictator who reduces conflict situations by imposing an enforced equality: personalities are standardized, numbers are used for names, women undergo plastic surgery so that none will seem too beautiful or too ugly. This dreary homogenized state is kept under control by dosing the citizens daily with a sedative-like bromide to which most people have become addicted; it lowers vitality and reduces nonconformity.