[BBell]

I have a close relative who was caught with 17 hits of acid when he was 17. Fortunately he was sent to drug rehab in witch the results of his actions at rehab would determine any further legal actions against him. He did well at rehab and he later went on to get a PHD in mathematics.

He is now an actuary and has become a partner in the firm he works for. He's really proud that he has his own parking spot now.

Some people can come back.

[jonascord]

I had a brother who was WAY brighter than I was, one of those spooky types with an eidetic memory. He also toked, daily, dropped out of high school at 17, enlisted, got a General Discharge because of drug use, spent a few years coasting as a machinist, that he could do stoned, and stroked out at 44. Paul's buried at the Florida National Cemetery, in a pauper's grave. Didn't find out about it for a couple of months.

Not everyone wants redemption.

[hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998]

teve Jobs — LSD

LSD was a big deal for Steve Jobs. How big? Evidently, Jobs believed that experimenting with LSD in the 1960s was “one of the two or three most important things he had done in his life.” What’s more, he felt that there were parts of him that the people he knew and worked with could not understand, simply because they hadn’t had a go at psychedelics. This latter sentiment also comes through in his recently published biography, wherein Jobs goes so far as to associate what he interpreted as Bill Gates’ dearth of imagination with a lack of psychedelic experimentation: