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Blinded by the Light: Kids on LSD stare at the sun until they go blind

Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun But mama, that’s where the fun is (Manfred Mann’s Earthband) I heard about this guy once. Took LSD, lay down in a field and stared at the sun until his eyes melted… He was discovered later by friends staggering round the fieldContinue reading “Blinded by the Light: Kids on LSD stare at the sun until they go blind”

It was 80 years ago today… Cycling Scientists on Acid

Weird Musical History 10 – Bike Psych On the 19 April 1943 chemist Albert Hofmann became the first person in history to give themselves a dose of a newly synthesised mind-altering drug. When things got too weird in his laboratory, he went on a psychedelic bicycle ride home through the mother of all bad trips.Continue reading “It was 80 years ago today… Cycling Scientists on Acid”