13 Famous Geniuses & Their Drugs of Choice

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13 Famous Geniuses & Their Drugs of Choice – These are 13 of history’s most brilliant minds and the drugs they chose to use. Some of these celebrated people became addicted, while some became inspired. Subscribe for more videos: https://goo.gl/8yXRqa Check out the “10 Most Absurd Paintings That Sold For MILLIONS” video here: https://youtu.be/IiI-MYP0Up8 Check out the “World’s Biggest Marijuana Plantation” video here: https://youtu.be/dazoBskfUns 13) Thomas Edison: Liquid Cocaine 12) Barack Obama: Weed 11) Francis Crick: LSD 10) Steve Jobs: LSD 9) Bill Gates: LSD 8) Stephen King: Cocaine, Xanax, Valium, NyQuil, Alcohol, Tobacco, Marijuana 7) Sigmund Freud: Cocaine 6) Benjamin Franklin: Opium 5) Adolf Hitler: Meth 4) Andy Warhol: Adderall 3) Pablo Picasso: Psychedelics 2) Friedrich Nietzsche: Opium 1) Howard Hughes: Everything Drugs altered their minds, and their minds altered the world. Who knew that such brilliant thinkers were also so willing to experiment with controlled substances? Here are 13 famous geniuses and their drugs of choice: 13) Thomas Edison: Liquid Cocaine Vin Mariani was a popular wine around the turn of the century. Why so popular? Probably because it was literally liquid cocaine. The French chemist Angelo Mariani invented the drink in 1863. He poured Bordeaux wine over coca leaves and let them dissolve. The alcohol acted as a solvent and turned a wine that makes you sleepy into a wine that might keep you up for several days straight. Thomas Edison, the prolific American inventor was a big fan of the stuff, using it to keep him awake while he worked long hours into the evening. 12) Barack Obama: Weed Not only did U.S. President Barack Obama toke up in his younger years, he actually owns up to it. In his book Dreams From My Father, Obama describes his many misadventures with a pot-smoking group of friends known as The Choom Gang. The mischievous teens apparently cruised around the Hawaiian countryside, smoking everywhere and anywhere they could. He’s since called using pot “a mistake”, but unlike former President Bill Clinton, who famously claimed he “did not inhale“, Obama owns up to it. “I never understood that line.” He said. “The point is to inhale.“ 11) Francis Crick: LSD Crick was part of the team Watson, Crick and Franklin, who together discovered the all-important DNA-structure. And to what do we owe this magnificent scientific discovery? LSD, apparently. Crick told many people about his LSD experimentation and how he used the drug while working on the molecular structure experiments. 10) Steve Jobs: LSD LSD was a big deal for Steve Jobs. How big? Evidently, Jobs believed that experimenting with LSD in the 1960s was “one of the two or three most important things he had done in his life.” According to Steve’s friend Daniel Kottke, the pair would take long hikes deep into the woods and meditate for hours before taking the drug. According to Jobs, “Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin.“ So basically, next time you're on your iPad, you have LSD to thank. What’s more, he felt that there were parts of him that the people he knew and worked with could not understand, simply because they hadn’t had a go at psychedelics. This latter sentiment also comes through in his recently published biography, wherein Jobs goes so far as to associate what he interpreted as Bill Gates’ dearth of imagination with a lack of psychedelic experimentation: “Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he’s more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology. He just shamelessly ripped off other people’s ideas.” Jobs says: “He’d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.” 8) Stephen King: Cocaine, Xanax, Valium, NyQuil, Alcohol, Tobacco, Marijuana It shouldn’t surprise anyone that the guy who wrote Christine and The Shining did a lot of drugs. According to King, his daily routine consisted of taking so many drugs and drinking so much alcohol, he would black out and not remember what he’d written the next day. However, he’s sober now and continues to write prolifically without relying on substance abuse. 7) Sigmund Freud: Cocaine Sigmund Freud not only used cocaine, he positively loved the stuff. In a letter to this fiancée, he wrote: “In my last serious depression I took cocaine again and a small dose lifted me to the heights in a wonderful fashion. I am just now collecting the literature for a song of praise to this magical substance“.