Drugs are bad and their use will always lead to ruinous consequences. Right Steve Jobs? Oh wait, I got that all backwards and so does our all-knowing, all-controlling, all-seeing government and our Big Pharma overlords. Doing drugs may expand your thinking in new directions and may give you perspective you never had.
Steve Jobs will not be shamed by his use of psychedelics in the past (Well, allegedly in the past. Common all these freaky looking gizmos and no one credits drug use). He has famously called his LSD experiences “some of the two or three most important things I have done in my life.” Examine that statement for a second. The CEO of a hugely successful corporation – the things he must have seen and done – and yet his LSD use is one of the most important experiences in his life.
LSD inventor Albert Hofmann, just before his death, decided to write to the iPhone creator to see if he’d be interested in helping a fellow researcher out with some research money.
Albert Hofmann died @ age 102, which in and of itself, is remarkable considering I am sure he has done a his fair share of the drug he helped create, and drugs are bad. He had penned this never-before-seen letter in 2007 to Jobs at the behest of fellow researcher and friend Dr. Rick Doblin.
Rick Doblin runs an organization dedicated to studying the medical and psychiatric benefits of psychedelic drugs. Below are the letters he wrote to Steve Jobs, and to his friend telling him about the letter. Find a link to the full story at the bottom.
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Dear Mr. Steve Jobs,
Hello from Albert Hofmann. I understand from media accounts that you feel LSD helped you creatively in your development of Apple computers and your personal spiritual quest. I’m interested in learning more about how LSD was useful to you.
I’m writing now, shortly after my 101st birthday, to request that you support Swiss psychiatrist Dr. Peter Gasser’s proposed study of LSD-assisted psychotherapy in subjects with anxiety associated with life-threatening illness. This will become the first LSD-assisted psychotherapy study in over 35 years.
I hope you will help in the transformation of my problem child into a wonder child.
Sincerely,
A. Hofmann
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Dear Rick,
Thank you for all you do for my problem child. I am pleased to add whatever I can do from my part.
I learned much from your great letter, to do things after waiting for the right moment, how clever and careful you organize and do your work.
I do hope that my letter to Steve Jobs corresponds to your expectation, especially what regards the choice of the writing paper. [Doblin had asked Hofmann to use his personal letterhead. It's not what you're thinking.] I believe that I followed your prescription.
Hopefully Dr. Gasser will be successful with his request.
Cordially -
Albert
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ryan-grim/read-the-never-before-pub_b_227887.html#hoffmanjobsletter
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