Albert Hofmann in America by Bruce Eisner and Peter Stafford Way back inn October of 1988, Omni Magazine editor-at-large Dick Teresi commissioned Peter Stafford and I to write an article about the visit of Dr. Albert Hofmann to Los Angeles for inaugural ceremonies for a foundation established in his name. Peter and I wrote and submitted the following article which we got paid well for. However, Terasi left the magazine shortly after we submitted the piece and it was never published. Here it is, freshly edited. A gold plaque with the words “Albert Hofmann Foundation” glistening in the afternoon sun on Read more »
Who Turned on Whom
Who Turned on Whom From Dr. Albert Hofmann to You How Western Civilization Got High Again, One Head at a Time by PETER STAFFORD AND BRUCE EISNER First published in High Times Magazine, OCTOBER 1977 Republished in The High Times Reader, Nation Books, 2004 LSD often turns its users into “instant messiahs” with an urge to turn on friends, relatives, acquaintances, and perfect strangers. Marijuana, too, is a sort of friendship ambassador from the vegetable kingdom, telling us to declare peace on the world. And during the Forties and Fifties, as acid and grass slowly spread (Tom among an enlightened few to Read more »
A Summer of New Beginnings
This poem was written in the summer of 1987. I managed to recover a bunch of some long misplaced writings on 5 1/4″ floppy disk. Some day if you meet me, I’ll tell you the story. Here is the poem which I hope you enjoy reading as I did reading it for the second time 24 year later. It is the summer of new beginnings It is the summer of never endings It is the summer of always being It is the summer that I became part of you All my life there was a hole in me Now I am completed Simple Read more »
Ecstasy: The MDMA Story by Bruce Eisner
Twenty two years ago, I published Ecstasy The MDMA Story. It was the first comprehensive overview of a drug which had been legal until 1985. I was able to use the drug and to observe its effects on different groups of people.
I wrote the book in 1987 and 1988 and it was published in 1989. A second edition was published in 1993. It has sold almost 100,000 copies since then
You can buy a copy at Amazon here.
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LSD Purity — From High Times 1977 — Updated Graphics
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