In today’s T&G a story about the apparent success of the cities new Yellow Boxes for needle disposal. Billy, what do you have to say on the matter?
“I haven’t found an environmentally or socially conscious drug addict”
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He’s making it too easy folks.
I tried finding people with either an environmental or social component to their fame, I’ll happily entertain criticisms or make adjustments to the list via comments. Why the T&G keeps printing his crap is beyond me but it really makes them appear lazy to anyone who made it through second grade.
- Marcus Aurelius – Opium
Marion Barry – Cocaine
Frederic Bartholdi – Coca Wine
Gregory Bateson – LSD
Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Opium, Amphetamine
William Burroughs – Cocaine, Heroin, Mescaline, Opium, Psilocybin, LSD, Cannabis, Ayahuasca, Methamphetamine
Lewis Carrol – Hashish
Ray Charles – Heroin
Grover Cleveland – Cocaine
William Clinton – Cannabis
Jean Cocteau – Opium
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Laudanum (Opium)
Wilkie Collins – Opium
Salvidor Dali – Hashish
Eugene Delacroix – Hashish
Thomas DeQuincy – Opium
Charles Dickens – Opium
Arthur Conan Doyle – Opium, Cocaine
Alexander Dumas – Hashish
Isadora Duncan – Cocaine
Anthony Eden – Amphetamine
Thomas Edison – Coca Wine
Havelock Ellis – Peyote
Ben Franklin – Opium Cannabis
Sigmund Freud – Cocaine
Jerry Garcia – Heroin, LSD, Cannabis, Cocaine
Art Garfunkel – Cannabis
Bill Gates – LSD
Allen Ginsberg – Ayahuasca
William Gladstone – Opium
Al Gore – Cannabis
Tipper Gore – Cannabis
Charles Gounod – Coca Wine
Ulysses S. Grant – Cocaine
Ernest Hemingway – Absinthe
Woody Harrelson – Cannabis
Abbie Hoffman – Cannabis, Cocaine
Victor Hugo – Hashish
Aldous Huxley – Mescaline, LSD, Psilocybin
Steve Jobs – LSD, Cannabis
John Keats – Opium
Ken Kesey – LSD, Mescaline , AMT, Psilocybin
King George V – Cocaine, Opium
Stephen King – Cocaine
Timothy Leary – LSD, Cannabis, Psilocybin/Mushrooms, Ketamine
John Lennon – LSD, Mushrooms, Cannabis, Heroin
Henry Luce – Mushrooms
Bob Marley – Cannabis
Willie Nelson – Cannabis
Plotinus – Opium
Dan Rather – LSD Heroin
Cardinal Richelieu – Opium
Jean-Paul Sartre – Amphetamines mescaline
William Shakespeare – Cannabis
Vincent Van Gogh – Absinthe
Andrew Weil – Cannabis, Mushrooms, MDA, Peyote
WB Yeats – Hashish
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That list would be 10 times its length if you included all the raging alcoholics of the world who have made it a better place.
I would say myself but I’ve only gone as far as seperating my recyclable. Which it turns out I no longer have to do. (I still do).
Betty Ford comes to mind.
I tried to eliminate anything legal, Absinthe made the cut but only because what we allow in the US is not quite the real deal. But yes, a booze list would break the internet.
The Stupidest Man In Worcester series has now risen to legendary status. Local musicians will soon be writing ballads about the Stupidest Man In Worcester. Plays will be written, books will be written, movie treatments will be pitched by A&A films…
Dude – putting Marion Barry on the list doesn’t help your argument.
That was my first thought, Jim. But I figured his pre-crack work with the civil rights movement would count for something.
Billy would make a fantastic Congressman. I think the only two requirements for electability for that post are “horse’s ass” and “gets published in the paper”.