Dr. ALBERT HOFMANN was the man who discovered the psychotropic properties of the chemical compound he created called lysergic acid diethylamide. For all of us layman that’s simply LSD. I salute this man who lived for over one hundred years, but finally crossed over to the other side on April 29th. I have had some incredible moments when I was high on acid.
For those times I thank the good doctor. And my connect in East Harlem on Lex.
The checkered history of LSD is a great study in how the pharmaceutical industrial complex controls our government along with Big Oil, Big Labor (prison industrial complex), and Big Guns (weapons industrial complex). LSD, when properly administered was an effective treatment for several mental medical conditions. It has been revealed that the CIA performed clandestine experiments with LSD throughout the 1950’s up into the 1970’s. The problem with LSD was that unlike heroin and later crack cocaine, the addicts became less prone to violence against others.
The CIA prefers the car-window smashing depravity of the crackhead I suppose.
LSD and acid are firmly entrenched in our collective psyches as the narcotics for hippies and other 1960’s counter-culture platitudes, but the real benefit of the drug is that it was used as a cure for alcoholism. Its greatest achievement doomed its success here in America where we create thousands of alcoholics on a daily basis. Any drug that stops you from spending your money is not viewed as a good (read: profitable) drug.
I think I may have to go in for a hit one last time.
PrA’li before I peep the new Batman movie.
Dr. HOFMANN would have done it.
* UPDATE * UPDATE * UPDATE *
The founder of Baskin-Robbins is now on a road less rocky.
R.I.P.
If u think about it, Baskin-robbins has probably caused far more deaths than LSD ever did.
I considered doing LSD and Shrooms…but I was always too busy…I figured if I ever did it I would have to have at least 10 hours to spare.
Seeing Batman Begins and what that gas did to Scarecrow’s friends, I would not even consider LSD and this new one with Ledger’s amazing Joker. Now Speed Racer, that’s a movie for shrooms or LSD.
I just read a biography of the fellow who discovered LSD, and no, he wouldnt “drop acid” before doing anything – at all! The man deplored the way the drug had been used and abused, recrecationally.
Ive never tried acid or shrooms. My brains chemistry is fragile enough without me adding some other shit to it. Ill just take a zero on this one.
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A homegirl once said don’t do acid after 25. I’m three years past that, and as much as the idea of sitting in with the Dogs Playing Poker or going on a picnic with Top Cat, Jughead, and Slowpoke Rodriguez, i don’t think i can risk it. Might end up in a bad trip having a threeway with the Golden Girls or somethin.
Experiences anybody?
@ CeezDiem
I would guess that whoever forbade you from dropping L after 25 said as much because, to echo Amadeo’s thoughts on the subject, a free day to explore space and time can be hard to come by after our teens and early twenties. Also, L, like all psychedelic drugs, has differing effects on your mental state depending on how stressed out one is, how good one feels about one’s life, etc. As we get older, most of us become more and more and more stressed out, as we lose the careless bliss of our youth, when even if we did have a ton of responsibilities, we successfully ignored them.
In any case, if I were you, I would give it a try — the only suggestion I would have is steering clear of the spectacularly potent shit on your first outing. One hit of medium- or lower-grade L would be a great way for you to introduce yourself. The body high from it is one of the greatest feelings a substance can induce in you.
Hope this helps.
I was dating this older sister back when I was in my mid twenties and she told me not to drop any more hits because it eats away your spinal fluid. You end up with nervous system issues like multiple sclerosis.
Nerditry makes a good point that a dark film like the Dark Knight might not be the place I want to explore the universe’s multi-layers and dimensions. Speed Racer might not be the flick either. Don’t get me started on speed or mescaline.
Lola, I just read some statements from him and he didn’t object to people’s use of LSD, he objected to their overuse of it. Dude traveled the orld searching for psychotropic drugs and took them firsthand.
Maybe I’ll go tripping and see Kung Fu Panda. Maybe I’ll just chill in my house and watch my three hour VHS of Bugs Bunny cartoons.
When i was in amsterdam last fall, tripped fantastic on some shrooms. was like I was back home. Yo D, if youre serious about that one last trip, lemme know. whenever i go on a trip, i always come back wiser. not effin with batman on that shit though!!! Alvin and the chipmunks maybe.
^ CJ,
Yeah I’m dead ass. I could go in and sit on bench in Prospect Park for hours. Especially on a day like today.
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Yo, let’s do the damned thing then. Sheet, get Rafi an’ ems to flim it.
I went in hardcore after a 4 year strong hiatus, and being older makes it much more manageable and interesting. Profound insight > life altering revelation.
Never tried LSD or ‘shrooms. I dont even fuck with haze or sour d. Trying to live like rasta, its only grown in ground shit for me. Might try shrooms one day, but none of the man-made chem shit.
PS. wanna trip? Get a little rascals tape, that shit is mad ill when you high…..
Hmmmn, DP, the piece I read about the dude said that he searched, and researched, these different drugs to see if they could be used to treat medical problems, and not just for “fun.” But perhaps the source was a conservative one, so they spun it that way. Hm.
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