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Telegraph 7:51PM GMT 10 Nov 2015
"LSD popular again, expert warns, as inquest hears of Nick Cave's son's acid-induced clifftop plunge"
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"LSD popular again, expert warns, as inquest hears of Nick Cave's son's acid-induced clifftop plunge"
Arthur Cave - the teenage son of Australian musician - seen 'staggering' on Brighton cliffs before 60ft fall
EXPERTS have warned of a resurgence in LSD use as an inquest heard that musician Nick Cave’s son fell to his death from a cliff after taking the drug with a friend.
The teenage son of musician Nick Cave fell to his death from a cliff after taking the hallucinogenic drug LSD with a friend, an inquest heard. Arthur Cave, 15, was spotted by motorists stuck in traffic who saw him "staggering" and "zig-zagging" on top of the cliff near Brighton, in East Sussex, after taking the substance - also known as acid. While having "vivid hallucinations", he had clambered over a fence put in place to keep the public away from the 60ft drop and was walking alone across a patch of grass with just a yard of ground ahead of him, a coroner was told. Arthur fell from the cliff between Ovingdean and Rottingdean, breaking both legs as he hit the bottom, suffering brain haemorrhages and catastrophic and unsurvivable skull fractures. The student - who had sent his friends a smiling selfie photograph taken close to the spot from which he fell just hours earlier - was discovered beneath Ovingdean Gap by passers-by, but could not be saved and later died in hospital. During the inquest, clinical scientist Amber Crampton said there was evidence that LSD had seen a resurgence in popularity.
She told the court: "I don't imagine it's too difficult to get hold of in Brighton. It used to be popular in the 60s and 70s. It's more popular now than many people are aware."
Recording a conclusion of accidental death, a coroner on Tuesday accepted that LSD had been ingested by Arthur on the "spur of the moment" and was a "contributory factor" to his fatal fall.
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