LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug? (2006)
My friend and university classmate - a kind of wounderkind.<p>He was accepted to university without exams, because he had great results on programming olympics.<p>Turned out he was also good at chemistry. When he was around 8 his mother arranged him to take
chemistry classes with elder schoolchildren. But he dropped the classes because he was borred - he already
knew everything taught there.<p>In university he tried drugs (marijuana, mushrooms). He also bought Hofmann's book with all the formulas and started cooking himslef.<p>One day he jumped off the roof of their apartment building. His mother found him.
She said at first sight she thought it was some garbadge on the street, and then recognized her son.<p>On his computer he left open  Richard Bach's book, with selection active on the phrase "you can fly, Jonathan".
He left a note between pages of the Exupéry's book (I don't know exactly on what place, his relatives
hadn't pay to that at the moment). The note said to dispel the ashes over the ocean.<p>The guy doesn't care - he is dead and feels nothing. But it was horrible to see his mother, and father too. He was the only child.<p>This case makes me doubt LSD and drugs in general are harmless.<p>I also have evidence the "inspiration" when you're on drugs is false, and actually it's more like a delirium.<p>Please, don't promote drugs.<p>UPDATE:<p>Surprisingly, some people even down-vote this comment, and convince me in telling false story. If so, what are my motives?<p>If you care, you can find plenty of documented evidence of drugs danger.<p>BTW, he jumped not because he "convinced himself he can fly", as many commenters suggested. His note said to dispel the ashes over the ocean.<p>If you heard something similar before - it doesn't make the story false, other way around, looks like such things happened more than once. In my case I am describing a real person I knew for years, and was present on his funeral.<p>This thread, and many comments here suggest a conspiracy theory -like idea, that anti drug laws and information is a malicious and false propaganda, imposed by state and society. Sorry, but it's just stupid.<p>It is irresponsible and inappropriate to promote drugs (LSD or whatever). And off-topic for Hacker News. There are people who unstable, who have internal emotional conflicts, etc. For them drug use may be a catastrophe.