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From 'problem child' to 'prodigy'? LSD turns 75
Lysergic acid diethylamide was labelled a "problem child" by the man who discovered its hallucinogenic properties in 1943: as it turns 75, the drug known as LSD may now be changing its image.
The late Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann famously learned of LSD's psychedelic effects when he inadvertently took a small dose while doing lab work for pharmaceutical company Sandoz.
He wanted the drug to be medically researched, convinced it could be a valuable psychiatric tool and lead to a deeper understanding of human consciousness.
But through the 1960s, LSD became synonymous with counterculture and anti-authority protests.
By the early 1970s, it had been widely criminalised in the West, prompting Hofmann to publish his 1979 memoir, "LSD: My Problem Child".
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Pslytely Psycho on Sunday October 14 2018, @06:38PM (23 children)
Timothy Leary, Tom Wolfe and the Electric Kool Aid Acid Test with the Merry Pranksters and the Psychedelic bus....In-a-gadda-da-vida...The White Album...Hendrix...
Magical times.......
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 14 2018, @06:51PM (5 children)
Magical times of rampant rape and misogyny!
Smash the Patriarchy. Ban drugs and alcohol.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 14 2018, @07:25PM
Sounds like someone needs to get laid!
Although you make a good point, psychadelics were used by some to manipulate and abuse others. But that is just humans being shitty, the methods are not the source of the problem.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 14 2018, @07:50PM (3 children)
According to feminists, anything psychoactive from magic mushrooms to LSD to cannabis to DMT species, you name it, has no other use than date rape.
I have never met a more miserable group of people scared shitless of female sexuality and spirituality outside of the Calvinist religions and Christian Identity movement. Disclaimer: maybe my opinion is tainted by extensive involvement of money from families such as the Van Andels and DeVoses. Those feminists claim to worship Diane, but as far as I can tell, that "goddess" is just Yahweh in drag, otherwise known as MAMMON.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday October 14 2018, @08:43PM (2 children)
Yyyyyyeah, I've never heard a feminist lump all of those together. You're talking about one specific group of early third-wavers and second-wave fringe elements who, as you said, worship Yahweh in drag. The irony has not escaped me. THIS feminist says avoid drugs on principle just because they reduce your mindfulness, but there may be applications for mild psychedelics and possibly purified, standardized extracts of cannabis. If it can help people, use it. Just use it properly and respect it.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 14 2018, @09:31PM (1 child)
I strongly disagree. Cannabis has greatly helped me to get away from PTSD and exercise more mindfulness.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 14 2018, @11:36PM
> ...Cannabis has greatly helped me ...
Point I take away from this is that everyone is different, what works for you may not work for me. Do your own thinking!
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Sunday October 14 2018, @07:08PM (15 children)
Some of my closest friends were pals with Timothy Leary, and they still think he was right about acid, MDMA, and quite a few other drugs.
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 3, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday October 14 2018, @08:47PM (14 children)
I think he was right about LSD and MDMA too.
The only other drug I have experience with is pot, and I do not understand why that isn't also legal.
Somewhere, someone is having fun, and that annoys the shit out of some people.
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Sunday October 14 2018, @09:00PM (4 children)
"Somewhere, someone is having fun, and that annoys the shit out of some people."
Yep, now to go annoy those people, Sunday is one of seven different sales days at the local pot shop! (err, Cannabis Retailer that is...)
Mmmm, extracts on sale today at Green Nugget, Satori has a sale on high end bud and Royal Cannabis has selected growers day... choices, choices....
Doing my part to give Jeff Sessions a stroke.....
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday October 14 2018, @09:39PM (3 children)
So, how do employers deal with legal pot, and insurance mandated drug testing? Have they come up with some bullshit method to determine whether you smoked the stuff three weeks ago, or that you smoked it ten minutes before arriving to pee in the bottle? Do bonehead managers still fire people for having pot in their system?
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 2) by legont on Sunday October 14 2018, @11:39PM (2 children)
People still do get fired for failing drug tests. A very good software developer and a friend just got burned.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday October 15 2018, @05:32AM (1 child)
A few of those cases should be wending their way through the courts by now. If it's not against the law to indulge, then what business is it of the boss? The test is illegal, in and of itself, unless a judge issues a warrant. No one has the right to pry into my private life, or to force or coerce me into supplying a urine or blood sample.
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 2) by legont on Tuesday October 16 2018, @12:33AM
Certain occupations have stricter requirements; say medical or financial personal. In fact there are very few professions of upper middle class level without that kind of restrictions.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 14 2018, @09:37PM (7 children)
Because Nixon hated hippies but wasn't allowed to target them directly. Nobody since has had the backbone to point out the emperor's state undress.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Sunday October 14 2018, @10:22PM (6 children)
Not exactly "nobody": Right now a majority of the US supports full legalization of pot. Those with power, however, continue to ignore those pleas on the federal level.
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 14 2018, @11:09PM
Its more profitable being illegal.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Sunday October 14 2018, @11:53PM (4 children)
Particularly stupid: the Democratic politicians.
The issue could be portrayed as one of States' rights: make it legal in those states that have chosen to legalize and regulate it. States can choose to make it legal or not. Everyone wins. Why the Dems don't jump on this bandwagon, I really don't understand.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 15 2018, @04:45AM (1 child)
Because the Dems don't want to decentralize power. If they could, they would revoke the 10th Amendment and leave the states with nothing more than the ability to organize trash pickup, and that only while supervised.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday October 15 2018, @05:08PM
While true, it abstracts incorrectly. Those in power at the Federal level don't want those at the lower levels to have power. This is also true at the state level, where state laws override city laws.
To some extent this is necessary for a workable civilization. But in every case it needs to be limited. Unfortunately, there's no decent way to enforce the limitations at the upper levels.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday October 15 2018, @05:51PM (1 child)
Why the Dems don't jump on this bandwagon, I really don't understand.
Dems did. Most of the states that have legalized it are blue states.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Tuesday October 16 2018, @03:10AM
Yes, but the Feds still consider it to be illegal. That has lots of knock-on effects, such as high prices.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Sunday October 14 2018, @11:51PM
Because, unlike alcohol, it's the drug of choice for blacks.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday October 14 2018, @09:41PM
It's probably what caused "Smoke on the water".
Burn, baby, burn.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---