Amazingly, almost unbelievably, I’ve never used illicit drugs and don’t feel I’ve missed anything on that account. I think much of this stems from a 1962 term paper I wrote on LSD (make that \u201cabout LSD\u201d) while a student at Tufts. What about the elephant killed in a 1962 LSD experiment funded by the CIA and published in Science? Then there were Harvard\u2019s Alpert and Leary, looking for participants at Tufts (LSD was legal until 1966) when their subjects had already founded a church\/meditation center for the drug\u2019s use and were known to be wacky losers. I was a serious runner then, and the athletic scene was totally different from today. Athletics were a prime motivator AWAY FROM drug use.\u00a0 The athlete\u2019s diet was protein based, with carbo-loading just before a race. Performance enhancing drugs were not in the picture, and cigarettes and alcohol (the drugs of choice at the time) were known performance diminishers. There were two views regarding the relationship between drugs and sex.\u00a0 It helped; it didn\u2019t help but folks were so stoned they didn\u2019t know the difference. Without experimentation, I sided with the latter (besides, who needed the help?).<\/p>\n
Incidentally, Alpert was a Tuft’s graduate, and I heard Leary speak at Princeton and spoke with him briefly there. So have some yogurt and chanterelles, in memory of Tusko the 7000 pound bull elephant (RIP).<\/p>\n
p.s. Fran and I are amateur mycologists, but we avoid the psychedelic ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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