Comments on: What a long strange trip its been

What a long strange trip its been

meanie — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 10:52:29 -0800

60 years ago today, Albert Hofmann accidently mixed up a batch of lysergic acid diethylamide-25 and took a "beautiful and pleasant" bike trip home from his Sandoz AG lab. His book "LSD: My Problem Child, Reflections on Sacred Drugs, Mysticism, and Science" can be found on Amazon or for free at http://www.flashback.se/archive/my_problem_child/Even though Hofmann isn't really for the use of LSD outside of the medical community, some zealots started a foundation in his honor. (Hofmann thinks people might hurt themselves while under the influence.) Regardless, the 97 year old Hofmann is still alive and is one of the major influences in modern popular culture history. Who were the Grateful Dead without LSD?

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 11:19:41 -0800

Sorry, I already used up my daily dose of LSD cheerleading over on the Salvia thread. Happy Freakin' Birthday, though.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 11:19:51 -0800

Did... did we hit a wrinkle in time? I'm cold and scared! Dude, that blue is... trippy.

By: donovan

donovan — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 11:23:18 -0800

And who good forget this timely video mixing LSD and the military discussed previous MeFI thread. Coalition of the tripping, anyone?

By: drinkcoffee

drinkcoffee — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 11:36:32 -0800

Thank you, Albert Hoffman, for 37 years of great music.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 11:51:29 -0800

Who were the Grateful Dead without LSD? Ooh! Ooh! I know this one!

By: sacre_bleu

sacre_bleu — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 11:55:45 -0800

Picture yourself in a boat on 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. -- The Beatles 'Scuse me, while I kiss the sky. -- Jimi Hendrix We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. -- Hunter S. Thompson Ecstasy might be good for inducing hugs, but I haven't seen a lot of evidence that it provokes art.

By: KnitWit

KnitWit — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:18:29 -0800

MethFilter

By: aiq

aiq — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:24:01 -0800

hilarious, yhbc. and timely considering the release of the new "spinal tap" folk parody. as for the sacrament...it sure altered my consciousness...

By: caddis

caddis — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:39:14 -0800

What a long strange trip it's been.

By: elwoodwiles

elwoodwiles — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:42:00 -0800

You ever look at your hand, man. I mean, really look at it?

By: quonsar

quonsar — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:42:58 -0800

and then, like, i saw god, man.

By: Ogre Lawless

Ogre Lawless — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:44:45 -0800

accidently mixed up a batch of lysergic acid Except one link in from the one provided says that it was no accident. Hoffman didn't even "accidentally" trip on the way home -- that was the result of a planned experiment:

4/19/43 16:20: 0.5 cc of 1/2 promil aqueous solution of diethylamide tartrate orally = 0.25 mg tartrate. Taken diluted with about 10 cc water. Tasteless. 17:00: Beginning dizziness, feeling of anxiety, visual distortions, symptoms of paralysis, desire to laugh. Supplement of 4/21: Home by bicycle. From 18:00- ca.20:00 most severe crisis. (See special report.)

The "accidental" bit came from a bit of labaratory carelessness on his part, absorbing some crystalizing substance presumably through skin contact.

By: lelilo

lelilo — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:54:53 -0800

You crack me up, yhbc. And I know the Kingstons started in San Francisco. But I think Jerry et al would have fit better into The Chad Mitchell Trio.

By: zpousman

zpousman — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 13:38:09 -0800

>4/19/43 16:20: 0.5 cc of 1/2 promil aqueous solution... 4:20!

By: jbrjake

jbrjake — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 13:44:00 -0800

"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather."

By: matteo

matteo — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 14:15:35 -0800

Monitor problems here -- weird colors... but beautiful.. MeFi's blue is shifting... I'm hearing music, too... my desk seems to be, trembling, floatngg ________

By: homunculus

homunculus — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 14:33:04 -0800

Is Taking Psychedelics an Act of Sedition?

By: Ty Webb

Ty Webb — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 14:44:04 -0800

this record is awesome.

By: brittney

brittney — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 14:45:25 -0800

Ecstasy might be good for inducing hugs, but I haven't seen a lot of evidence that it provokes art. Look harder.

By: elphTeq

elphTeq — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 18:14:51 -0800

Happy Birthday to the special friend that has helped me see the true meaning of hands, lighters, mirrors, piles of leaves, parquetry, tickle-me-elmo, The Matrix, and blank pieces of paper. No other substance has made the mundane so beautiful.

By: mosch

mosch — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 18:15:44 -0800

Personally when it comes to art that I can listen to, I prefer this, this or even this. Ecstacy inspired music has never stirred me to dance continuously, from dusk til dawn. LSD inspired music on the other hand, very much so.

By: Oriole Adams

Oriole Adams — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 18:31:12 -0800

"There I am! I'm over there now! My hair is green, I'm a tree!" - Benjie Carver aka "Blue Boy"

By: kozad

kozad — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 19:11:28 -0800

First time, in 1967, I was reading Timothy Leary's "translation" of the Tibetan Book of the Dead when I got off. I laughed and laughed. At the texture of the page and the weird black markings. LSD changed my life.

By: Mack Twain

Mack Twain — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 19:16:35 -0800

"visual distortions, symptoms of paralysis, desire to laugh"...all that sure, but it's always been the ability to see those other layers; A friend of mine had a poster that said "Everything was different after it changed" and I made the mistake of asking him what in the hell that meant. Later, as I was being driven around Santa Barbara I saw these folks on the sidewalk: they had gigantic animal heads, and I wondered how in the the hell I had missed that before?

By: qaam

qaam — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 19:24:18 -0800

Ahh those hippies are throwing a party for LSD. Seriously though, along with kozad, hallucinogenic have changed the way I view reality. I'm not sure if it's for the better or worse, but it's changed somehow. I have to wonder how much of today's art and music are inspired from LSD use? Maybe Britney should drop acid and then her music wouldn't suck as bad. I know much art has a psychedelic influence. Check out Alex Grey and Andrew Gonzalez for examples.

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 19:35:33 -0800

I always suspected that these might have been the inspiration for these.

By: muckster

muckster — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 19:51:13 -0800

If anybody's near Baltimore, the American Visionary Art Museum has an interesting drug-realted exhibit right now.

By: shadow45

shadow45 — Thu, 17 Apr 2003 04:19:11 -0800

I know you can walk on water, but can you walk on this much acid?

By: reality

reality — Thu, 17 Apr 2003 07:59:48 -0800

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By: walrus

walrus — Thu, 17 Apr 2003 08:34:27 -0800

and then, like, i saw god, man The problem with taking LSD in order to see god is that when you finally do, god tells you to stop taking so much LSD.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Thu, 17 Apr 2003 10:39:52 -0800

That's not what she told me.

By: Dantien

Dantien — Thu, 17 Apr 2003 10:52:46 -0800

kozad: right on. I agree. Changed me forever.