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 »
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By Bruce Eisner

Why We Get High
Why We Get High Bruce Eisner Almost all of you have gotten “high.” You might call it “getting stoned” or “tripping” or “having a session” or “going on vision quest” or “partying” but the urge to switch channels and move to another and less usual state of consciousness is as old as our species itself. Actually the quest for intoxication is even older! Ronald Siegel, in his book, Intoxication, documents numerous animal species and most of the various human cultures that strive to get high or as he calls it, to intoxicate themselves. Siegel proposes that after food, drink and Read more »
By Bruce Eisner
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Why We Get High April 16, 2004 - Interview with an Alchemist: Bear Owsley Interview August 28, 2004
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LSD and Aldous Huxley’s Island: Setting Sail for a Better Country February 9, 2006 -
LSD Purity — From High Times 1977 — Updated Graphics January 25, 2008
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Mystery of Time March 7, 2012 -
Albert Hofmann in America October 1988 January 29, 2012 -
Who Turned on Whom January 28, 2012 -
A Summer of New Beginnings August 30, 2011
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