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Early psychedelic associated people who were not weird: - Alexander Shulgin, chemist who discovered and ate whole families of psychedelics over a long life, and
by xkcd-sucks 9y ago
Early psychedelic associated people who were not weird:
- Alexander Shulgin, chemist who discovered and ate whole families of psychedelics over a long life, and who was always described as being practical, grounded, warm, and human
- The CIA employees who were exposed to LSD during that era, remarkably few of whom went off the deep end
- Owsley Stanley, pioneering sound engineer and production scale LSD chemist who also was not into woo-woo crap
- Albert Hofmann, the guy who discovered it
The "weird" ones cherry-picked in the article didn't do much except loudly promote extravagant claims about said drugs and push their own personal brands-- They were the instagram influencers of the era, in a sense.
- arvinjoar 9y agoShulgin was pretty weird, but maybe not as weird as some of the others.
- colecut 9y agoOwsley moved to Australia because he was convinced a super cyclone was going to freeze all of north America and that would be the safest spot. He also pretty much ate only 100% meat, and blamed the cancer that formed in his throat in his later years on the few vegetables his parents made him eat as a child. But no woo woo crap =) Interesting thoughts by Owsley: http://www.thebear.org/essays.html http://www.thebear.org/essays.html Info about the storm he predicted: http://worldnewstrust.com/ice-ages-cause-of-glaciation-a-theoretical-treatment-owsley-bear-stanley http://worldnewstrust.com/ice-ages-cause-of-glaciation-a-the...
- DrScump 9y agoFor those unaware, Owsley was the focus of the Steely Dan song "Kid Charlemagne".
- mc32 9y agoMaybe they're referring to the ones people know about, in pip culture? Why did pip culture glom on to them mostly? I don't know.