Originally posted by mll:
I thought Alice comes across a mushroom and there's some creature sat on it smoking something? I didn't think she ate the mushrooms.
The caterpillar is smoking a hookah (water pipe), tradional in North Africa.
Originally posted by atlas*lit_up:
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starey night is Van Gogh, buddy. And he was a disturbed painter working within the techniques of the post-impressionist, not a drug user.
Um..... not quite correct. Van Gogh is probably the most famous of the artists of that time period that were Absinthe addicts. If you knew about Van Gogh you would know that he even has an oil painting called "Still Life With Absinthe"
Originally posted by mll:
hang on dingle, LSD wasn't even invented when Lewis Carrol wrote Alice in wonderland.
I'm not sure about this statement, but regardless, it wasn't LSD. The drug was DMT!
Originally posted by Bet@:
I'm not sure about this statement, but regardless, it wasn't LSD. The drug was DMT!
I'm pretty sure Lewis Carrol's experiments were with opium as far as Alice in Wonderland goes, though there is also a chance that he was using aminita muscarina mushrooms at the time. Both LSD and psilocybin mushrooms were unknown to Europeans at the time, LSD wasn't even synthesized yet.
Originally posted by ikarus:
Absinthe contains thujone which is a psychedelic related to THC.
I don't know about smoking opium, but I know Edgar Allen Poe was into laudanum (an alchol + opium drink).
And unless Lewis Carroll was drinking yage/ayahuasca (which I highly doubt) he wasn't doing any DMT. I think some people have a habit of inferring way too many drug references into certain books (Alice In Wonderland in particular).
I don't believe thujone is actually related to THC. I think that the DEA is grasping at straws trying to find a connection between Salvia Divinorum, THC, and thujone so they can schedule Salvia under the Analogue Laws. Please correct me if I'm wrong...