DNA AND LSD

Did you see this interesting news item?

Nobel Prize winner High on LSD When he Decoded DNA

 

 

 

Francis Crick, Nobel Prize winner and a pioneer of modern genetics, was under the influence of LSD when he deduced the double-helix structure of DNA.

Crick, who died in 2004, told a fellow scientist that he often used small doses of LSD, then an experimental drug used in psychotherapy, to boost his powers of thought. He said it was LSD that helped him to unravel the structure of DNA.

Crick was a devotee of novelist Aldous Huxley, whose accounts of his experiments with LSD and mescaline became cult texts for the underground drug culture of the 1960s. Crick was a founding member of Soma, a group dedicated to the legalization of marijuana named after a drug that appears in Huxley's novel "Brave New World."

Well, how about that. Did he also decode the secret of why we had Nehru coats in the 1960's?

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Another amazing LSD achievement: Dock Ellis of the Pittsburgh Pirates threw a no-hitter on acid in 1970. Check out www.sirbacon.org for details