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Hofman first synthesised what was to become known as LSD in 1943. According to his obit, Hofmann was disappointed when his discovery was made illegal and remained convinced that the drug had the potential to counter the psychological problems induced by “materialism, alienation from nature through industrialisation and increasing urbanisation, lack of satisfaction in professional employment in a mechanised, lifeless working world, ennui and purposelessness in wealthy, saturated society, and lack of a religious, nurturing, and meaningful philosophical foundation of life”.

Source: The Telegraph.

Children’s drawings and paintings of the coca eradication spraying programme in Columbia.

Via DrugStrat via Alcohol and Drugs

I don’t mind anyone drinking in front of me now, but they can’t chop lines in front of me. They just can’t do it. I don’t know. I always used to hate lines. I remember hanging out with Liam Gallagher years ago and he was doing blow in front of me and I was like, “Can’t you just stop?”. He was like, “Do it, do it!” and I was hating that shit. Then when I got to be 35 years old I started doing it and I didn’t stop for, like, four years. Explain that! Isn’t that weird? Starting at 35? Having never done it before. Because to me cocaine was always a more bourgeois thing, or it was for dumb metalheads. Then after I became a film actor I was around fashion a lot. So you’d be sitting there with, like, [two supermodels] and they’d be naked and there’d be a Jackson Pollock on the wall and a Picasso on the wall and you’d be in a $100,000 couture gown, and I remember calling up my old bass player Melissa [Auf Der Mar] and saying, “OK, I’m going to try cocaine. We’re going to be Scarface. There’s a guy who keeps walking in with a platinum plate and platinum straws and offering me coke, so let’s just go for it.” We did it. We did it for two days non-stop with some of the richest people in the world and some of the most beautiful people in the world and we ended up at six in the morning outside a club called Twilo with Dave Navarro in little silver shorts going, “Let’s go get some smack.” I mean, this is a downward spiral however you slice it.

From the current issue of Pop which also features a nice Madonna/Mondino tribute cover shot. Towleroad has also noticed some madonna-isms in the shoot.

A dream tabloid-sting device if ever there was one.

Ever confused by youth culture, it seems that The Independent newspaper has gone the responsible route and just made shit up. Poor old George Michael was nicked yesterday passed out in his car and a number of ‘controlled substances’ found. But the paper seems a bit confused as to what this GHB drug is:

‘A type of liquid cannabis’ reports The Independent.

‘GHB — a Class C drug known as Liquid Ecstasy that is popular with clubbers’ says The Sun who seem to have actually done a bit of research.

Pardon us for sounding sanctimonious but GHB has been at the root of numerous clubland horror stories. At the very least you could expect the press to google it before they reported the ‘facts’.