Albert Hoffman:

In my opinion, without this man, none of us would be here :0

There would likely be no internet, music would still suck, Dock Ellis(D) wouldn't have a no-hitter, Francis Crick wouldn't have unlocked the secrets of DNA and the US would still be stuck in a bullshit war based on lies (oops, never mind that last one...)

LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?
http://www.wired.com/science/discoverie ... rentPage=2

Brian Wilson wrote:"About a year ago I had what I consider to be a very religious experience. I took LSD, a full dose of LSD, and later, another time, I took a smaller dose. And I learned a lot of things, like patience, understanding. I can't teach you, or tell you what I learned from taking it. But I consider it a very religious experience."
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The day after Brian's third LSD trip. Wilson is telling Jardine about the great trip he'd just had the previous day--trying to convince Jardine to drop acid. Since the Beach Boys started another tour on April 28th it is likely that Brian dropped Al off on either the 27th or 28th.
The biography also makes mention that it is during Brian's third LSD trip that Wilson envisions the "grand Spectorlike production" that was to eventually become "Good Vibrations." And it should be noted that weeks after this acid trip Brian returned to the studio to work on "Good Vibrations" and began to record the song using new methods and techniques. Brian would use these same techniques (recording in sections, using various studios, recording the same section of music in different ways, seeking perfection) for SMiLE.
http://pages.cthome.net/tobelman/The_Ou ... _Site.html
(MUST READ!)

John Lennon wrote:It went on for years, I must have had a thousand trips. Literally a thousand, or a couple of hundred? A thousand - I used to just eat it all the time.

Steve Jobs wrote:"...One of the two or three most important things I have ever done in my life."

Senator Robert Kennedy wrote:"Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly."

Myron Stolaroff, Ampex engineer, psychedelic pioneer wrote:45 years ago I came to the conclusion that LSD was the greatest discovery ever made.

In the showdown for the world's greatest 'alchemists' I think Alexander Shulgin will likely take the prize, but Hoffman was a true giant...





http://wallout.com/lsd_vs_alcohol_vs_tree

Certainly not in the top 1000 scientists of the 20th century. Probably not in the top 10000.

Failed to find a successful migraine treatment.

Probably responsible for the Grateful Dead and millions of other horrible hippie jam bands.

CRAP.

Incidentally, it's Hofmann.

LSD is cool and all but come on, it's inspired more shitty music than any drug except cocaine.

It's also inspired some incredibly good music.

As with most things, a few insistent assholes ruin it for everyone else.

This picture, she makes me a tiny bit nervous and slightly sick to my stomach. Why is that?

This is one bizarre drug. It's effects linger forever (as far as I can tell so far, anyway).

Argyreia Nervosa wrote:...Francis Crick wouldn't have unlocked the secrets of DNA...

Not necessarily true, it was Rosalind Franklin's research that truly pioneered the unveiling of DNA's double-helix structure. Crick and Watson essentially gambled on it being true in order to make it to the finish line, before Franklin and her associates - who wanted to do more research before reaching any conclusion.

Argyreia Nervosa wrote:Albert Hoffman:

In my opinion, without this man, none of us would be here :0

Hmm.

Canadian
Fond of LSD
Good with numbers
Partial to both electronica and the rock and roll
Home recording/remix savvy


Puzzling evidence indeed.




Am I on to something here… Dan?

Argyreia Nervosa wrote:In my opinion, without this man, none of us would be here :0

sure, you're exaggerating, but this opinion pretty much sucks balls that are not really balls but actually holograms containing everything in the universe, including balls.

let's put it this way: my parents didn't need acid to conceive me & raise me pretty well. my biggest far-out early musical heros like john cage & sunra were not really formed by psychedelics. i've never dropped acid, but i'm a pretty decent, aware dude, who makes pretty out there music.


i hate this conceit surrounding acid. though one day, under the right circumstances i wouldn't mind tripping.

someone quoted kerouac over in the other hoffman thread: "i think walking on water wasn't built in a day." thanks for that, that's a brilliant observation.

some guru (or ra wilson? i forget) said that lsd was the form god had to take for the most materialistic society in the world to recognize him/it. there's something to this observation regarding the belief that everything is something you can consume, acquire. could be sausage on a stick this morning, enlightenment later on this afternoon.

but i'm not knocking other folk's experiences, just this stupid acid snobbery.

I like the way the Onion put it

"It's just like I tell my kids: If you get involved with drugs, you're going to end up dead."