Modern Drunkard did an article on Bill Wilson, a co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. Turns out Bill was homies with Aldous Huxley and discovered that LSD was a magical drug when it comes to treating alcoholism. Indeed it is. Probably the best excerpt from the MD article is “One of his therapeutic journeys lead him to Trabuco College in California, and the friendship of the college’s founder, Aldous Huxley. The author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception introduced Wilson to LSD-25. The drug rocked Wilson’s world. He thought of it as something of a miracle substance and continued taking it well into the ‘60s. As he approached his 70th birthday, he developed a plan to have LSD distributed at all AA meetings nationwide. The plan was eventually quashed by more rational voices, and a few years later the Federal government made the point moot by making the drug illegal. (That Wilson’s plan was shot down is probably fortunate. LSD is a beautiful thing, but nothing sounds more horrifying to me than a roomful of chain-smoking, frightened, needy drunks tripping their heads off in the basement of the local Y.)” Read the whole article here. Props to dosenation for coming across the article.
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