[drjimmy]

"Dancing Naked in the Mind Field"

Brad had experimented with psychedelic drugs and agreed to guide me through my first trip. He suggested that before I took LSD, I should smoke some marijuana because it might give me some idea of how my consciousness would be changed. Marijuana scared me, I told him. Everything I'd read about it said that it was a bad drug, an addictive drug - one toke and you're a slave for life.

He persuaded me to smoke a "joint" as he called it. Within moments my fear disappeared. I was laughing. Brad and I talked about wise things for hours. ...

During dinner, Brad gave me what was called a double-domed 1000 microgram Owsley. He had bought it for five dollars. It was soon to become illegal. I didn't finish dinner. I started laughing. I got up from the table and realized, on the way to the couch, that everything I knew was based on a false premise. I fell down through the couch into another world.

Kary Mullis, 1998

[AdamSelene235]

Apparently he had enough brains cell left to invent the polymerase chain reaction.

Some of the most intelligent PHD's I know have dabbled in psychedelics.