of do I have a great story for you for everybody who still might be
a Puritan when it comes to drug use and I say
most people one degree or another are all that
mindset right and I'm not saying everybody's like you know
as harsh as some other crazy people on the far right who would wanna band
even alcohol and pornography in some way I know but people to one degree or
another think yes I wanna stay away
from these different substances because even if i'm for the freedom to take them
I don't think they're necessarily good for you
right what might change your mind even from that
this story is just that interesting so
listen to this this is a list
of some other great minds flat-out geniuses
throughout history and what their drug of choice was
interesting Carl Sagan
the guy responsible for making science core memory did the cosmos
he's a preeminent astrophysicist and cosmologist
he not only smoked marijuana regularly he was also
a strong advocate for issues in enhancing intellectual pursuits
he contributed to an essay to the 1971 book titled
marijuana reconsidered any spoke to the virtues the virtues of marijuana use
how interesting is that neuroscientist John Seely
was a pioneer in the field of electronic brain stimulation
he was the first person to map pain and pleasure pathways in the brain
I mean you wanna talk about a big breakthrough that's huge from a
scientific perspective in
research that happened after that he found an entire branch of science
exploring interspecies communication between humans and dolphins and humans
in Wales
by any invented the world's first sensory deprivation changer
and what he do well he are engaged or in dole's I should say
in taking ketamine ketamine
if I know as I know Academy today it's more like a party drunk right people go
out to clubs and i think is a
cat tranquilizer from not mistaken but hey we're
genius neuroscientist but the
major breakthroughs in science he was taking ketamine go right ahead I
who am I to judge a cary mullis
won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry frequently took LSD
Steve Jobs no introduction needed he experimented with LSD
and that was in the nineteen sixties
he said quote one of the two or three most important things
I have done in my life was take hours to us so incredible man
this is the exact opposite weast all have this mindset still love the
reefer madness rightward the movie propaganda all your body if you take any
substance ever ever
really so %ah what is our many drink coffee in the morning have a monster
energy drink
or drink alcohol you know or go to the doctor get a prescription for adderall
focus more
for take xanax to relax or klonopin valium
good so not sure what so not true I got more
poll where does for the most prolific mathematicians who ever
lived you publish more peer-reviewed papers than any other mathematician and
fishery
he was hopped up on amphetamines 24/7 he was well known for working 19 hour days
by the way I should probably use some men very means because
I work up 16 hour days so for
I hear anybody I see a life on how you say call me but i think is dead
arm thomas edison was known for knocking back
then marry on East which is a Bordeaux wine treated with coca leaves the active
ingredient which is none other than
cocaine Francis Crick up the DNA structure discovering
Watson Crick and Franklin did LSD
and universities researchers often used LSD in small amounts
as a quote thinking to all in Creek
quote perceive the double helix shape while all metal is Daisy
and of course how can I leave out the granddaddy of them all
Sigmund Freud to Freud
cocaine was more than a personal indulgence he regarded it as a veritable
wonder drug
and for many years a huge proponent of its use in a wide array of applications
and in a letter written to his fiancee Martha freud wrote quote
if all goes well I will write an essay on cocaine and I expect
it will win its place in therapeutics by this I dove
morphine and superior to it I take very small doses of it regularly against
oppression
and against in indigestion and with the most brilliant
of 6s freud publish such a review titled
who were coca in 1884
so yeah drugs are real bad for you