Celebrities Celebs Who Owe Their Careers to Psychedelics
Whether you’re stone cold sober, or a web-surfing psychedelic monk, this list of famous people who used LSD will peak your interest in numerous ways. Each story not only shows that it’s not just spacey musicians like The Beatles, or gonzo actors like Dennis Hopper expanding their consciousness with LSD, but also that a few actors you probably thought were incredibly vanilla, like Cary Grant, had careers helped by LSD. So if you’ve been asking everyone you know, “is LSD good for you?” this list of celebrities who used psychedelics will sort of give you some answers. We’re not saying you should run out and start eating every magic mushroom you can find, but these famous people who used psychedelics seem to think they were helped in one way or another by chemically expanding their mind.
It’s no secret that there are plenty of celebrity drug users. After all it’s almost de rigueur for famous folks to do something illegal. When applying this concept to psychedelics, it makes you wonder, is LSD good for creativity? After researching all these famous people who used acid it certainly seems like there’s something to the thought that you can reach another artistic state by opening up your consciousness with mind-altering drugs.
But don’t take this list's word for it. See what these celebrities who used LSD have to say about their own experiences with taking LSD, acid, mushrooms, and peyote. Once you’ve expanded your mind with this list of famous people who used acid leave a comment with your own experiences and let’s like, get a dialogue going, man.
It's possible that no group of artists benefitted from experimenting with psychedelics as much as the Beatles, who had, until their first encounters with LSD, been clean-cut lads from Liverpool who played blues-infused teeny-bopper tunes. According to George Harrison, all of the Beatles experimenting with psychedelics was necessary for the group to continue through the '60s.
"John and I had decided that Paul and Ringo had to have acid, because we couldn't relate to them any more. Not just on the one level - we couldn't relate to them on any level, because acid had changed us so much. It was such a mammoth experience that it was unexplainable: it was something that had to be experienced, because you could spend the rest of your life trying to explain what it made you feel and think."
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Birthplace: California, United States of America
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Age: Dec. at 71 (1937-2008)
Birthplace: New York City, Manhattan, USA, New York
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There are so many sides to Joe Rogan that it's hard to pin him down. On one hand he's a tough guy who lOoOooooOooves the UFC, but on the other he's a man who's open to experimenting with is mind, and facilitating similar experiences for his fans.
His career began a second (or maybe third?) renaissance when he started talking about his experience with magic mushrooms and how they changed his life.
Age: 51
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