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I already have :) don't forget he also dropped acid in Golden Gate Park and then wrote a Nature paper about time reversal!
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He was on drugs. Right?
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I assumed opium.

But I think if you are in the throes of a problem, pondering it constantly, day and night—it is in these times that an insight will make its way to your consciousness (drugs or otherwise).

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In graduate school he had a reputation for being the best at synthesizing LSD.
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