What do you Anti-LSD people say now?

Question

Nobel Prize genius Crick was high on LSD
when he discovered the secret of life
Copyright 2004 Associated Newspapers Ltd. Mail on Sunday (London)

August 8, 2004

BY ALUN REES


FRANCIS CRICK, the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, was under the influence of LSD when he first deduced thedouble-helix structure of DNA nearly 50 years ago.

The abrasive and unorthodox Crick and his brilliant American co-researcher James Watson famously celebrated their eureka moment in March 1953 by running from the now legendary Cavendish Laboratory in
Cambridge to the nearby Eagle pub, where they announced over pints of bitter that they had discovered the secret of life.

Crick, who died ten days ago, aged 88, later told a fellow scientist that he often used small doses of LSD then an experimental drug used in psychotherapy to boost his powers of thought. He said it was LSD, not
the Eagle's warm beer, that helped him to unravel the structure of DNA, the discovery that won him the Nobel Prize.

Despite his Establishment image, Crick was a devotee of novelist Aldous Huxley, whose accounts of his experiments with LSD and another hallucinogen, mescaline, in the short stories The Doors Of Perception and Heaven And Hell became cult texts for the hippies of the Sixties and Seventies. In the late Sixties, Crick was a founder member of Soma, a legalise-cannabis group named after the drug in Huxley's novel Brave New World. He even put his name to a famous letter to The Times in 1967 calling for a reform in the drugs laws.

Answer 1

Drugs are helpful in many ways if they are used in the proper dosage and for the fight reason. Drugs have influenced many of the best artists and thinkers for thousands of years. This is not news, kiddo, but I agree with you wholeheartedly.

Answer 2

Why not just tell people some factual information about LSD? You can't overdose on it, its non-toxic, non-addictive, does not "melt" or "fry" or even affect your brain permanently, it cannot hurt you, and bad trips on it are largely because of the mindset of person who uses it and their setting.

Answer 3

Doc Ellis of the Pirates threw a no-hitter while under the influence of LSD.

Answer 4

Oh Ya LSD is wonderful. Tell that to the family of the women my ambulance crew ran on last week after she and her two kids (age 4 and 8) were stabbed to death by her boyfriend because he was sure they were actually aliens hiding in human skins. Took 8 cops to bring him under control. LSD is great! Everyone should use it.

Answer 5

That's cool for him, but how many other people have had bad trips or brain damage?

For me, the risk is not worth it.

But feel free to go right ahead, if you discover the cure for cancer, I'll be one of the first to applaud you.

Answer 6

who is anti LSD, if they are they have never tried it.

Answer 7

look what LSD had done to me !!