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With or without syndicate assistance, Haight-Ashbury was getting to be a very bad scene. Last week a hippie on a bad LSD trip killed himself by jumping from a Marin County dam. Another told friends in July that LSD rendered him "indestructible," then leaped to his death in front of a San Francisco commuter train. In an effort to restore peace and quiet, if not sanity, a hippie house organ called The Oracle editorialized: "Do not buy or sell dope any more. Let's detach ourselves from material value. Plant dope and give away all you can reap. For John Carter and William Edward Superspade Thomas—may their consciousness return to bodies that will not want for anything but the beauty and joy of their part in the great dance."