Comments on: An article about Cary Grant's fondness of LSD http://boingboing.net/2010/03/23/an-article-about-car.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 19:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: alphagirl http://boingboing.net/2010/03/23/an-article-about-car.html#comment-742665 alphagirl Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-742665 It's really tragic that drugs like LSD, psilocybin, MDMA and marijuana are categorized as Schedule 1, when so many people could benefit from them in so many ways. It’s really tragic that drugs like LSD, psilocybin, MDMA and marijuana are categorized as Schedule 1, when so many people could benefit from them in so many ways.

]]> By: android http://boingboing.net/2010/03/23/an-article-about-car.html#comment-743453 android Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-743453 rubbish? certainly not. When a corporation invents something that could make many of their bread-winning products stop selling as well, might they not work to have it suppressed or outlawed? Or at least acquiesce and/or remain silent while other forces work to those ends. Seems quite plausible to me. Corporations, by definition, are driven by the profit motive, not by any desire to make better or more useful products. LSD was banned, in my opinion, for reasons similar to those that got the children's book "Ferdinand" banned -- the potential to open minds to "subversive" ideas. Timothy Leary wasn't to blame. rubbish? certainly not. When a corporation invents something that could make many of their bread-winning products stop selling as well, might they not work to have it suppressed or outlawed? Or at least acquiesce and/or remain silent while other forces work to those ends. Seems quite plausible to me. Corporations, by definition, are driven by the profit motive, not by any desire to make better or more useful products. LSD was banned, in my opinion, for reasons similar to those that got the children’s book “Ferdinand” banned — the potential to open minds to “subversive” ideas. Timothy Leary wasn’t to blame.

]]> By: Manooshi http://boingboing.net/2010/03/23/an-article-about-car.html#comment-742702 Manooshi Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-742702 @#4: It's Big Pharma (along with the out-dated, mis-informed, colonized minds on behalf of drug enforcement officers) that want to keep psychedelics inappropriately categorized as "Class 1" drugs, or whatever the fuck the category is called - despite the positive benefits they've been proven to have in being helpful tools for couples' therapy, PTSD, and cancer patients, etc. @#4: It’s Big Pharma (along with the out-dated, mis-informed, colonized minds on behalf of drug enforcement officers) that want to keep psychedelics inappropriately categorized as “Class 1″ drugs, or whatever the fuck the category is called – despite the positive benefits they’ve been proven to have in being helpful tools for couples’ therapy, PTSD, and cancer patients, etc.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/03/23/an-article-about-car.html#comment-742710 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-742710 And here's a LA Weekly article from 1998: http://www.laweekly.com/1998-07-09/news/the-trip/ And here’s a LA Weekly article from 1998:

http://www.laweekly.com/1998-07-09/news/the-trip/

]]> By: yer_maw http://boingboing.net/2010/03/23/an-article-about-car.html#comment-742713 yer_maw Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-742713 Absolute rubbish. It was sandoz that invented it, therefore novrtis would be selling it to this day if it wasnt for the timothy leary idiotic brand of shamanism. Absolute rubbish. It was sandoz that invented it, therefore novrtis would be selling it to this day if it wasnt for the timothy leary idiotic brand of shamanism.

]]> By: Enormo http://boingboing.net/2010/03/23/an-article-about-car.html#comment-742734 Enormo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-742734 <a href="http://blog.wfmu.org/.a/6a00d83451c29169e20120a95ab01f970b-pi" href="_blank">Michael Jackson was in LSD, Flesh of the Devil?"</a> Michael Jackson was in LSD, Flesh of the Devil?”

]]> By: Greatmiddlewest http://boingboing.net/2010/03/23/an-article-about-car.html#comment-742516 Greatmiddlewest Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-742516 Vice ran a similar article in December 2007. Good stuff! http://www.viceland.com/int/v14n12/htdocs/cary_grant_lsd.php Vice ran a similar article in December 2007. Good stuff!

http://www.viceland.com/int/v14n12/htdocs/cary_grant_lsd.php

]]> By: Tristan Eldtritch http://boingboing.net/2010/03/23/an-article-about-car.html#comment-742533 Tristan Eldtritch Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-742533 "I learned many things in the quiet of that room ... I learned that everything is or becomes its own opposite ... You know, we are all unconsciously holding our anus. In one LSD dream ... I imagined myself as a giant penis launching off from earth like a spaceship." - Cary Grant. Thats pretty damn funny! “I learned many things in the quiet of that room … I learned that everything is or becomes its own opposite … You know, we are all unconsciously holding our anus. In one LSD dream … I imagined myself as a giant penis launching off from earth like a spaceship.” – Cary Grant.

Thats pretty damn funny!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/03/23/an-article-about-car.html#comment-743045 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-743045 Just a quick clarification here: Nesteroff may not have the history correct. Through the psilocybin experience Leary found psychedelics and exposed them to the scientific community. If it wasn't for the, however brief, scientific analysis; there wouldn't be any significant exploration into the drug by anyone of value. The drug would have ended up with heroin status if misused and experimented on by the unprepared minds and exploited like MDMA. And a clarification on yer_mar's comment but Sandoz was the pharmaceutical company Dr. Hoffman worked for when he invented the product. The company itself was the holder of the patent on the synthetic. Have a good one y'all and feel free to research my statement, God knows I had to. Just a quick clarification here: Nesteroff may not have the history correct. Through the psilocybin experience Leary found psychedelics and exposed them to the scientific community. If it wasn’t for the, however brief, scientific analysis; there wouldn’t be any significant exploration into the drug by anyone of value. The drug would have ended up with heroin status if misused and experimented on by the unprepared minds and exploited like MDMA. And a clarification on yer_mar’s comment but Sandoz was the pharmaceutical company Dr. Hoffman worked for when he invented the product. The company itself was the holder of the patent on the synthetic. Have a good one y’all and feel free to research my statement, God knows I had to.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/03/23/an-article-about-car.html#comment-742849 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-742849 Please make Kliph Nesteroff a guest blogger. His knowledge of arcane show biz is legendary here in Vancouver. Please make Kliph Nesteroff a guest blogger. His knowledge of arcane show biz is legendary here in Vancouver.

]]> By: sing it, baby http://boingboing.net/2010/03/23/an-article-about-car.html#comment-742617 sing it, baby Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-742617 As the head himself said, "everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant." As the head himself said, “everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.”

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/03/23/an-article-about-car.html#comment-743139 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-743139 Heh. Slightly off-topic but the recent scandals on mephadrone indicate, to me at least, the stupidity of 'banning' drugs. The only reason mephadrone exists is because the tried and tested alternatives (Exctasy) is illegal. And as for LSD being illegal, that's just the stupidest thing ever. Legalise all drugs, make them safe for consumption, take them out of the hands of the criminals. Old news, I know but had to be said. Heh. Slightly off-topic but the recent scandals on mephadrone indicate, to me at least, the stupidity of ‘banning’ drugs. The only reason mephadrone exists is because the tried and tested alternatives (Exctasy) is illegal.

And as for LSD being illegal, that’s just the stupidest thing ever. Legalise all drugs, make them safe for consumption, take them out of the hands of the criminals. Old news, I know but had to be said.

]]> By: Ambiguity http://boingboing.net/2010/03/23/an-article-about-car.html#comment-743148 Ambiguity Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-743148 <blockquote>Absolute rubbish. It was sandoz that invented it, therefore novrtis would be selling it to this day if it wasnt for the timothy leary idiotic brand of shamanism.</blockquote> I disagree, strongly. If Tim Leary hadn't existed, we would have invented him. Do you really think that there had been no Leary that LSD would be an accepted drug to this day? You think that culture really plays no role in these things? Do you think that if it hadn't been for Leary's butterfly-wings beating over New England, the whole drug-war hurricane never would have gotten going, or do you think the drug war would have just magically not included psychedelics? Leary was an influential guy, and I'm sure he influenced the timing of what took place, but if he hadn't been on the scene, another Leary would have come along eventually. It's not like he stood apart from the culture he came from: he was actually a pretty accurate representative of it.

Absolute rubbish. It was sandoz that invented it, therefore novrtis would be selling it to this day if it wasnt for the timothy leary idiotic brand of shamanism.

I disagree, strongly. If Tim Leary hadn’t existed, we would have invented him.

Do you really think that there had been no Leary that LSD would be an accepted drug to this day? You think that culture really plays no role in these things? Do you think that if it hadn’t been for Leary’s butterfly-wings beating over New England, the whole drug-war hurricane never would have gotten going, or do you think the drug war would have just magically not included psychedelics?

Leary was an influential guy, and I’m sure he influenced the timing of what took place, but if he hadn’t been on the scene, another Leary would have come along eventually. It’s not like he stood apart from the culture he came from: he was actually a pretty accurate representative of it.

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