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...which, investigators believe, refer to drugs. Police recovered more than a dozen different varieties of drugs from Obara's homes - from sleeping pills to chloroform to human growth hormone. In his diaries, he mentions drugs frequently, at one point declaring, "I am so bored with pot, hash and LSD." But if there were any doubts about his main interest, these were dispelled by an entry in which he stated, "I can not do women who are conscious...
Courtwright's writings even draw the Harvard social scene into the drug chronology. In tracking the evolution and boom of LSD, he cites Timothy Leary, a former professor of psychology at Harvard, as a prime example of the huge effect that drugs can have on an individual's life. Leary's statement, "LSD is more important than Harvard," accurately sums up his decision to drop out of academia and spend his life as a LSD groupie. And while Courtwright provides glimpses throughout Forces of Habit of the varying degrees of addictions that ultimately drove the drug trade and globalization...
...they who helped popularize MDMA--a signal event in the history of recreational drugs. Ecstasy is easily the biggest advance since LSD. It changed not only the party world but the shaman world, where it was used by psychologists who believed it had therapeutic value. Since MDMA was banned in 1986, scientists have looked for compounds that have the same effects without damaging neurotransmitters, as MDMA can. They haven't had much success...
Martin also cleared up a number of rumors about the band and the album. Martin said the title of the song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," often thought to be about the drug LSD, was inspired by a painting created by John Lennon's young son Julian. The painting depicted Julian's classmate Lucy literally in the sky with diamonds...
Some experts on the Kaczynski case, including The United States of America vs. Theodore John Kaczynski author Michael Mello, have speculated that LSD tests may also have been a part of the study Kaczysnki took part in. But Kacyznski himself does not recall taking the drug, and there is no evidence that LSD was part of the experiment...