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Albert Hoffman has died (Father of LSD)
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| 4/29/08
Posted on 04/29/2008 4:08:07 PM PDT by Borges
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To: am452
Whoops wrong guy.
Richard Evans Schultes, the most important scientific explorer in South America in this century, whose exploits rival those of Darwin and the great naturalist explorers of the Victorian age. In 1941, after having identified ololiuqui, the long-lost Aztec hallucinogen, and having collected the first specimens of teonanacatl, the sacred mushroom of Mexico, Schultes took a leave of absence from Harvard and disappeared into the Northwest Amazon of Colombia. Twelve years later, he returned from South America, having gone places no outsider had ever been, mapping uncharted rivers and living among two dozen Indian tribes. He collected some twenty thousand botanical specimens, including three hundred species new to science, and documented the invaluable knowledge of native shamans. The world’s leading authority on plant hallucinogens, Schultes was for his students a living link to a distant time when the tropical rain forests stood immense, inviolable, a mantle of green stretching across entire continents.
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posted on
04/29/2008 4:56:55 PM PDT
by
am452
(In order to ensure the quality of your patriotism, your conversation may be monitored.)
To: Borges
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posted on
04/29/2008 5:00:28 PM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
To: Borges
102 years! What a long strange trip it’s been, to borrow a phrase.
To: Borges
102 years! What a long strange trip it’s been, to borrow a phrase.
To: Borges
“He maintained that I was unjustified in reproaching him for the seduction of immature persons to drug consumption,” Hofmann recalled, on the ground that American teenagers “with regard to information and life experience, were comparable to adult Europeans” and able to make up their own minds. Let's allow teenagers to rule the world.
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posted on
04/29/2008 5:10:39 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: xcamel
I guess we now know how long Keith Richard should be expected to live. I think Keith's biological clock stopped some years ago. He looks the same as he did in 1975.
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posted on
04/29/2008 5:15:58 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: Borges
the final melt down...
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posted on
04/29/2008 5:24:43 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©®)
To: cynwoody
“Remember what the dormouse said.”
Feed your head!
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posted on
04/29/2008 5:32:09 PM PDT
by
ought-six
( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
To: SF Republican
Have you read his book? He described the ride.
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posted on
04/29/2008 5:34:49 PM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(I always rely on God and Guns in that order)
To: muir_redwoods
"I knew it would kill him"
A lesson for you kids out there. Drugs kill!
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posted on
04/29/2008 6:25:17 PM PDT
by
boop
(Democracy is the theory that the people get the government they deserve, good and hard.)
To: Borges; aculeus; dighton; martin_fierro
D.A.R.E. to live to 102.
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posted on
04/29/2008 6:30:05 PM PDT
by
Ezekiel
To: Borges
Lucy in the sky with diamonds....
< /humor >
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posted on
04/29/2008 6:30:58 PM PDT
by
Las Vegas Dave
("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." Hillary Clinton, June 2004.)
To: BunnySlippers
Think about Albert on his first trip... he would have had no way of knowing whether he’d be coming back to ‘reality’ or whether he’d entered cartoonville forever.
I’m so happy for him that he lived so well for so long.
To: Borges
Good friends and co worker with Gordon Wassen.
He is loved and will be missed by many.
For where ever was there greater disparity between
seeing and hearing......Aristides the Rhetor
Drink the kykeon, become Epoptes!
Walk the sacred path to Eleusis.
We have but there are no words you can understand until
you have traveled there too.
t.
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posted on
04/29/2008 6:44:35 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Borges
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posted on
04/29/2008 7:10:28 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
To: Borges
Thanks, Albert. I appreciated it.
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posted on
04/29/2008 8:27:09 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Berlin 1936. Olympics for murdering regimes. Beijing 2008.)
To: Borges
I remember a friend (cough..) telling me about all the crazy subliminal messages he would gleam from tv shows and commercials that really freaked him out the few times he tried it. TV is mind control man...
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posted on
04/30/2008 5:04:24 AM PDT
by
mowowie
To: mowowie; Borges; knarf
When my dad was in med school he had some of those vials. Would be worth a fortune now. Oh, well. Easy come, easy go-o-o-o-oh...
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posted on
04/30/2008 8:15:46 AM PDT
by
Froufrou
To: cynwoody
Feed your head!!! Feed your head!!!
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posted on
04/30/2008 10:23:43 AM PDT
by
Clemenza
(I Live in New Jersey for the Same Reason People Slow Down to Look at Car Crashes)
To: am452
I think you mean Shultes, from Harvard U. He wrote the Golden Guide to Hallucinogenic Plants, a hard-to-find classic field guide.
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posted on
04/30/2008 10:32:59 AM PDT
by
DBrow
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