Category: Drugs
The Great Shingles Outbreak of 2010
So I thought it would be fun to track my shingles episode. But first, a bit of background. Like, wth is shingles? Most of us know what chicken pox is. We all had it as a child. Lots of bumps, scabs and itching. Here and gone within a week usually. But what they don’t tell…
Our Highest President?
Make the most of the Indian hemp seed, and sow it everywhere! George Washington, in a note to his gardener at Mount Vernon (1794), The Writings of George Washington, Volume 33, page 270 (Library of Congress)
Early LSD Poetry
Psychiatrist Humphrey Osmond was an early experimenter with LSD. He gave mescaline to the author Aldous Huxley in 1953. In subsequent discussions Osmond attempted to come up with a name for the effect that LSD had on the mind. Huxley made his suggestion in the form of a rhyme: To make this trivial world sublime,…
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