LSD, the addictive personality's savior????

[SpankMaster Flex]

Interestingly enough, Bill W., one of the founding members of Alcoholics Anonymous, went to Canada in the very late 50s to look into research being done there on a new experimental drug, LSD. The researchers there proposed that it might be useful in treating addictions and obesity. Bill W. participated in some of the experiments and reported that LSD would be helpful in treating alcoholism. He was purportedly disappointed and angered when funding was pulled from the project and the US, despite Dr. Timothy Leary's testimony, refused to allow research to continue. Bill W. remained convinced that LSD was the wonder drug to treat alcoholism until his dying day.

Source: The Story of Bill W. published by Alcoholics Anonymous.

 

[Isabella Thorne]

Timothy Leary's Dead ...

"[LSD] went on for years. I must have had a thousand trips. I used to just eat it all the time."
- John Lennon, 1970

"There's high, and there's high, and to get really high - I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high - that's where I'm goin'."
- George Harrison, circa 1968

"It [LSD] opened my eyes. We only use on-tenth of our brain. Just think of what we could accomplish if we could only tap that hidden part! It would mean a whole new world if the politicians would take LSD. There wouldn't be any more war or poverty or famine."
- Paul McCartney, 1967
____________________
Picture yourself on a boat in a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green
Towering over your head
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes
and she's gone

Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds, ah

~The Beatles~

 

[insideShiraz]

Beauty...

The Beatles are my favorite of all time anything...

The thing is, though, you can't explain that kind of high to someone who has never done it. I have to laugh every time I think about a friend who was a deep thinker who told me that he didn't trust anyone who had never taken LSD. Intriguing concept.

But today the acid is lousy. When ever there's a blue moon, I prefer mushrooms, and am trying to explore Father Peyote.

"Dr. Jessup, something has gone terribly, terribly wrong"...

 

[RonG]

A Girl with Colitis Goes By

I remember a discussion on Bill Maher's old Politically Incorrect when it was on Comedy Central with a bunch of LSD experts (folks like Michelle Phillips) that said that the original formula for LSD has not been manufactured since the mid 1960's in Switzerland. Basically, what has been sold and marketed since are various knockoffs that may not have the same potency and are prone to side effects that were not encountered in the original clinical work.

I'll stick with Fantasia and popcorn for my hallucinations.

 

[Cheri]

Man I miss Jerry

Went to a few Dead shows in my youth and had plenty of opportunities to try it, but never had the guts to. Think all the stuff about residue in your hair for up to 10 years(?) freaked me out to much. That, and watching too many people go from dancing around like whirling dervishes to sprawled out in a manner reminiscent to crime scenes outlines convinced me that there are some things that I didn't need to know.
See I can be dark too....just more like a grapeish tint instead of pitch-blackness

 

[insideShiraz]

From the Pitch Black...

Mmmmmm...grapes...

 

[Strange Girl]

Sitting on a cornflake,
waiting for the van to come,
Elementary t-shirt, stupid bloody tuesday man
youv'e been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long

Anybody spin Beatle's records backwards?

 

[Gingersnap]

Would you like that ergot on rye toasted or plain??

 

[insideShiraz]

What is ergot, and can I spin it backwards?...

Egads, what henceforth my aside?

 

[CreamyLady]

I tried it once; I don't remember any strange visions, but I remember standing on the deck of the Queen Mary at 4:00 in the morning, trying to ignore my friend and her date, who were fornicating in a phone booth.

I don't think that was a result of the drug. I'm very sure it was all real.

 

[insideShiraz]

Creamy Lovely Lady...

How in the friggin' Hell did you get from Pasadena to Long Beach and on to the Queen Mary at 4 in the morning?

 

[insideShiraz]

Lovely, creamy Lady...

I've been up into those mountains via Lincoln, where I played Stairway To Heaven and everyone freaked out. I went up via one of the Tujungas, where someone saw Army Ants w/sword and shield and frieked out. And I've been to Ernie, Jr's where your Secret is safe with insideShiraz...

 

[CreamyLady]

Four people inside a Volkswagen Bug . . . it was a very long trip.

Also, alas, Ernie Jr's is gone. Gone, but not forgotten.

 

[Gingersnap]

Inside Shivaz, you really are a strange little thing happy trails to you.

 

[Eve_of_destruction]

I've took one hit on two different occasions, and both times were quite interesting, in that I could "predict" things that were going to happen.

The first time, my boyfriend and I decided to play Yahtzee until the LSD kicked in, and once it did, we decided to keep playing... because I was predicting every roll he made! For some strange reason, though, I couldn't predict my own rolls. If he rolled a 1,3,5,5,6, for example, and needed 4 of a kind, I told him to go for the 6's, because he wouldn't get them on 5's... and if I was wrong, he could roll again. 5 out of 6 rolls, I would be dead-on, he rarely had to roll again. Other than this heightened ESP, and a strange feeling that my right arm was disconnected from my body about 3 hours after taking the hit, the trip was pretty normal.

The second time, I took the hit around 11pm, and by 2am I felt like Alice in Wonderland... everything was just strange. It was at this time that I told my boyfriend the police were going to arrive at 12 minutes before 3:00. I didn't know what they were going to do, if they were going to come to his house, or if there were going to be some sort of disturbance in his neighborhood, or WHAT, I just KNEW they would come at that exact time. He scoffed at me until, at exactly 2:48 a.m., two squad cars, with their bubbles on but no sirens, pulled into the driveway of the abandoned house next door and, with flashlights, entered the house. They came out about 10 minutes later with a couple of young men in handcuffs, put them in the squad cars, and left - I guess they were squatters or something, we never did find out exactly what was going on. But it was just so weird, cause other than these two occasions, I cannot predict SHIT!

And I can't wait to try it again... I think I'll play the Lottery next time!

Anyone else drop acid and have this heightened ESP, or is this just a quirk of mine?

EOD

 

[MistressSin]

the closest to publication I'll ever get

Lucid Sequined Dancers

As I lie in a pale room
the walls a-pulsating
or is it my eyes?
I like to watch the paint
melting as it drips it reminds me of
the wicked sky.
waltzing through a jungle
of a forest patch of woods
the scream in my head turns into
laughter,
as I close my eyes
to get away from the dark.
I stare at an escalator hill that goes upward
and up up up.
it starts to rain
and the molten glass stream
as hot like antartica overflows
into a smoldering sea of a
suburb.
Lucid Sequined Dancers
spin around fast
like the short hand on a
midget.
have I finally peaked
through a window
and I saw myself
lying in a pale room

I was only fifteen when I wrote that. I think about my fifteen year old cousin doin that, and I freak! Man what was I thinkin'....