BICYCLE DAY FOLLOWED BY 420? CALL A DOCTOR, STAT

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Call a doctor and ask about the medical qualities of acid and weed. Maybe your doc has some non-medical experience to share, but probably won’t.

If your medical provider isn’t in the loop, boomerpdx will shine some light. No, not crack the sky light from the heavens above with a big voice commanding from on high, just a little push in the right direction.

Bicycle Day? Apparently the inventor of LSD got fried on April 19th, 1943.

From rollingstone.com:

…on April 19th, Hofmann took his experiment further and ingested 250 micrograms of LSD-25, with his assistant’s knowledge. The day moved fast, and his journal marked the shifts. He dosed himself at 4:20pm; diluting the 250 micrograms of crystal in 10cc water and noted it was tasteless. At 5pm, he added, “Beginning dizziness, feeling of anxiety, visual distortions, symptoms of paralysis, desire to laugh.” The journal went dark after that. Two days later he added that his trip had been most intense from six to eight p.m. – and that during that time, he rode home on his bicycle.

Did you notice the time? 4:20pm. Coincidence?

I’m guessing the lab guy didn’t see himself as a hotdog on a bicycle chased by a jar of mayonnaise and a bottle of ketchup. If that happened in Switzerland he would have been a schnitzel?

He didn’t see Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and Jim Morrison all on the heavenly stage together, either.

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Unlike the American acid king, the original tripper didn’t find a band to run as their sound man while he kept them supplied with electric kool-aid. And he didn’t have Ken Kesey to direct things.

LSD peaked and faded as hippie lab rats in California aged into doctors and lawyers and such. Not cowboys, hell no, not like Waylon and Willie.

Decades later the acid leopard has new spots. LSD helps people with mental illness? The Wired website in England says so. Wired? Perfect. Re-wired is more like it.

How did weed and psycho-drugs get into the mainstream with such force and immediacy? How did the party of the Sixties turn into therapeutic treatment?

The answer isn’t as simple as getting loaded on 4-20-2018. But if you do, leave comments on the day below.