prepare to expand your mind man
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we're
counting down our picks for the top ten
people whose lives were affected by LSD
I was influenced by acid endo
psychedelic you know like the whole
generation really I like rock and roll
you know number ten Timothy Leary after
being exposed to the mind-opening
properties of certain mushrooms Timothy
Leary became interested in the
comparable effects produced by LSD stick
out your tongue there's the key that's
the key to the universe the American
psychologist then undertook numerous
experiments with the drug to demonstrate
its potential for therapeutic use many
of his subjects spoke positively of the
experiences though researchers later
disputed some results number 9 doc Ellis
so I took some LSD at the airport
because our new wear would hit me happy
in my own on June 12th 1970 Pittsburgh
Pirates pitcher doc Ellis played an
entire game against the San Diego Padres
while high on acid and threw a no-hitter
to boot he ingested LSD without
realizing he was playing that night and
through his haze he managed to strike
out six batters meanwhile he thought the
ball was changing sizes and that Jimi
Hendrix and Richard Nixon were playing
with him number eight Jack Nicholson
that Jack Nicholson may have acid to
thank for helping his Hollywood career
take off during the 1950's the actor
participated in LSD experiments
conducted by dr. Oscar yeah Nagar these
i opening experiences inspired him to
write the screenplay for the trip which
was an LSD themed movie that became a
cult hit and paved the way for his later
success I wish I was selling hip way of
telling you this baby but you're one
with and part of an ever-expanding
loving joyful glorious and harmonious
universe number seven Ken Kesey before
writing his acclaimed novel One Flew
Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey
experienced the effects of LSD in both
professional and private settings I
would have not been able to write that
well without LSD he took various
psychoactive drugs as a test subject in
the CIA's project MKULTRA and had access
to a loosen ajuns while working at a
State Veterans Hospital these
experiments inspired his 1962 novel and
led Kesey to organize LSD fuelled
parties known as acid tests number six
Hunter s Thompson I'd like to ask you
why you use drugs different George were
different things when this American
writer and journalist wrote about
himself in his work he often mixed real
life with make-believe this is bat
country this was the case with his most
famous work the drug-filled Fear and
Loathing in Las Vegas if therefore
shouldn't be a surprise that Thompson
used alcohol LSD and other chemical
substances during his lifetime
number five Aldous Huxley I think it's
quite on the cards that we may have
drugs which will profoundly change our
mental states without doing us any harm
I mean this is the the pharmacological
revolution which has taken place the man
behind the dystopian novel brave new
world was an avid proponent of LSD and
psychedelic drugs during the 40s and 50s
the British writer even documented the
mind-altering effects of mescaline in
his book the doors of perception however
it was perhaps Aldous Huxley's last
requests that really demonstrated the
importance of these drugs in his life
while dying of cancer he asked his wife
to inject him with LSD number four the
Beatles I had some you know in a in a
little bottle on a putt it was liquid I
put it on a microscope and I looked at
it and he looked like rope mystic old
rope and I know alike I'm gonna put that
in my brain anymore The Beatles were
certainly not the only band to
experiment with drugs but they were
definitely one of the biggest and most
popular to do so the group may have
gotten their first taste of LSD by
accident but that fateful moment turns
several men
into acid users thereafter it was years
later that Paul McCartney finally
validated long-standing speculation
about the tracks DayTripper and Lucy in
the Sky with Diamonds by confirming they
were about drugs
other notable musicians associated with
LSD included the Grateful Dead and Jimi
Hendrix number three Kary Mullis if it
weren't for LSD
Kary Mullis may never have won the Nobel
Prize for chemistry in 1993 in his
autobiography the American biochemist
confessed it was his drug of choice
during the 60s and 70s he further
revealed that these experiences helped
him develop the technology for which he
won the award which was used to
amplified DNA sequences number two Steve
Jobs it may be surprising to some but
the late co-founder of one of the
world's most successful companies
claimed that taking LSD was one of the
most important experiences of his life
Steve Jobs called his experiments with
acid during the 1970s a magical and
spiritual time however he also asserted
they made him feel like an outcast
ultimately Jobs believed his drug use
indelibly changed the type of leader he
became number one dr. Albert Hoffman you
wouldn't expect a straight-laced
scientist to be a closeted drug user but
it was actually a Swiss chemist who
first experienced the psychedelic
qualities of LSD dr. Albert Hofmann
synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide
in 1938 and deliberately ingested it
five years later on April 19 1943 his
faculties were so affected by this LSD
trip that he had to be taken home on a
bike by his lab assistant and that date
is now celebrated as bicycle day if you
have open eyes you may see the world in
a different way I mean in the you see it
as it really is wonderful