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Dr. LSD to Steve Jobs: How was your trip?
- zimbabwe 17y agoDr. LSD lived to be 102? Wow. I've always been curious about Jobs's relation to LSD. I know his famous "Bill Gates should have dropped acid" line, but I'd like to see how he related hallucinogenic use to his outlook on design.
- sethjohn 17y agoThere is something about the silver-blue glow of a Mac and it's zippy lines that seems to borrow from the hallucinogenic experience. Certainly, I've never seen while on halluginogens anything as garish, discordant, and downright ugly as the Windows primary-color scheme. Of course, there's also the experience of seeing the world turned upside down and inside out that, in small doses, is probably good encouragement for creativity.
- runinit 17y agoI'm pretty sure Gates did LSD ..
- rms 17y agoPLAYBOY: Ever take LSD? GATES: My errant youth ended a long time ago. PLAYBOY: What does that mean? GATES: That means there were things I did under the age of 25 that I ended up not doing subsequently. PLAYBOY: One LSD story involved you staring at a table and thinking the corner was going to plunge into your eye. GATES: [Smiles] PLAYBOY: Ah, a glimmer of recognition. GATES: That was on the other side of that boundary. The young mind can deal with certain kinds of gooping around that I don't think at this age I could. I don't think you're as capable of handling lack of sleep or whatever challenges you throw at your body as you get older. However, I never missed a day of work. http://beginnersinvest.about.com/od/billgates/l/blbillgatesint5.htm http://beginnersinvest.about.com/od/billgates/l/blbillgatesi...
- umjames 17y agoSo does that mean that Bill should have missed a day of work instead?
- petercooper 17y agoIt's a bit of an aside, but.. I love that guy's handwriting! You don't get handwriting much like that anymore.
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- jonknee 17y agoNo relationship.
- runinit 17y agoAre you serious? I would say if he took Tylenol in his life he would be more likely to get liver damage from that. I can't even find one study showing ANY relationship between liver damage and LSD.
- profquail 17y agoLSD is also supposedly the most powerful migraine cure ever discovered. A single (sub-psychedelic) dose was found to cure some individuals for MONTHS. Tylenol won't do that for you. References: http://www.clusterbusters.com/lsd.html http://www.clusterbusters.com/lsd.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methysergide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methysergide
- pygy 17y agoSporadic LSD use will never cause chronic, permanent liver damage.
- yan 17y agoGiven that LSD is such a powerful hallucinogen, the usual amounts ingested don't even show up as far as your liver is concerned.
- blhack 17y agoI remember being a teenager, and hearing a lot of rumors that made it sounds like some big time engineers were pretty serious LSD advocates. From what I was hearing, most of the top scientists and engineers in the world had either used LSD, or were still actively using it. How common is that? Was this all just a bunch of BS? I know there are some really really fantastic coders that hang out here, do any of you guys actively use psychadelic drugs? As somebody that tries to stay away from any sort of drug (except alcohol. I have a weak spot for beer) as much as possible (including over-the-counter things etc.), has using these things benefited you in any way? The way that I have heard LSD etc. users describe its affects, it sounds like it would be anything BUT beneficial.
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- il 17y agoI think everyone should try psychedelics at least once in their life. I'm not exaggerating when I say that it can be a life-changing, very positive experience that will persist long after the effects of the drugs have worn off. It will give you clarity and peace. It's very much the opposite of alcohol- alcohol clouds your mind and dulls your senses, psychedelics enhance your senses and open your mind. And if you think LSD can have damaging effects, look at Dr. LSD- he lived to be 102, and he took LSD in mammoth doses. The first time he took LSD(when he discovered it), he did not realize how small its active dose is, so he took something like 100x the standard dose(several milligrams). LSD is completely safe physically, it's impossible to overdose or cause brain damage of any sort.
- greyboy 17y agoAnd if you think LSD can have damaging effects, look at Dr. LSD- he lived to be 102, and he took LSD in mammoth doses. The first time he took LSD(when he discovered it), he did not realize how small its active dose is, so he took something like 100x the standard dose(several milligrams). LSD is completely safe physically, it's impossible to overdose or cause brain damage of any sort. Hmmm, a sample size of one, eh?
- weegee 17y agowhile a senior in high school myself and my friends took LSD and while it was certainly not lab-grade acid, just street acid, it was a fascinating experience. We repeated it a couple times more and by the end of the third trip, I felt that there was nothing more to learn from it so I stopped. They kept on for a few more years. I read as many books as I could get my hands on from the library, including a fascinating book called "Acid Dreams" which told how LSD was used by the CIA for research into a possible truth serum. While I would not recommend LSD to anyone for recreational purposes now, it is important that we can learn more about how the brain works by having the chance to use LSD as a learning tool. I think it can be used to help people with various disorders, if used by a qualified physician/counselor and in a good safe environment. Cary Grant was an LSD user and he felt it helped him a great deal late in his life.