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This Day In History - August 29, 1956 * 2
    #14995832 - 08/29/11 10:37 AM (12 years, 5 months ago)

August 29, 1956

Bill Wilson, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, took LSD for the first time

William Griffith Wilson, also known as Bill Wilson or Bill W., was the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) a fellowship of support groups world-wide dedicated to helping alcoholics achieve sobriety.

British radio commentator Gerald Heard introduced Bill W to Aldous Huxley and British psychiatrists Humphrey Osmond and Abram Hoffer. Humphrey and Osmond were working with schizophrenic and alcoholic patients at a Canadian hospital.

Bill joined with Heard and Huxley and first took LSD in CA on August 29, 1956. Medically supervised by psychiatrist Sidney Cohen of the LA VA hospital, the LSD experiments occurred well prior to the "hippie era" of the late 1960's.

Among those invited to experiment with LSD (and who accepted) were Nell Wing, Father Ed Dowling, Sam Shoemaker and Lois Wilson. Marty M and other AA members participated in NY (under medical supervision by a psychiatrist from Roosevelt Hospital).

Bill is quoted as saying:
    "It is a generally acknowledged fact in spiritual development that ego reduction makes the influx of God's grace possible. If, therefore, under LSD we can have a temporary reduction, so that we can better see what we are and where we are going — well, that might be of some help. The goal might become clearer. So I consider LSD to be of some value to some people, and practically no damage to anyone. It will never take the place of any of the existing means by which we can reduce the ego, and keep it reduced."

Bill thought of LSD as something of a miracle substance and continued taking it well into the ‘60s. As he approached his 70th birthday, he developed a plan to have LSD distributed at all AA meetings nationwide. A few years later the Federal government made the point moot by making the drug illegal.


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Re: This Day In History - August 29, 1956 [Re: veggie]
    #14995919 - 08/29/11 11:05 AM (12 years, 5 months ago)

Good read!


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Re: This Day In History - August 29, 1956 [Re: Doobalicious]
    #14997465 - 08/29/11 03:49 PM (12 years, 5 months ago)

Bad outcome.


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    #14998237 - 08/29/11 06:25 PM (12 years, 5 months ago)

Truth and truth!


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Re: This Day In History - August 29, 1956 [Re: DoDahDay]
    #14998352 - 08/29/11 06:44 PM (12 years, 5 months ago)

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DoDahDay said:
Bad outcome.




How? I assume you are implying that you disapprove of AA as an organization - in case you misread (or didn't read the article in its entirety), Wilson took LSD long after he had created AA.


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Re: This Day In History - August 29, 1956 [Re: veggie]
    #14998372 - 08/29/11 06:48 PM (12 years, 5 months ago)

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veggie said:
he developed a plan to have LSD distributed at all AA meetings nationwide.



That would have been interesting.


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Re: This Day In History - August 29, 1956 [Re: Toe_Jam]
    #14998644 - 08/29/11 07:32 PM (12 years, 5 months ago)

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Bill thought of LSD as something of a miracle substance and continued taking it well into the ‘60s. As he approached his 70th birthday, he developed a plan to have LSD distributed at all AA meetings nationwide. A few years later the Federal government made the point moot by making the drug illegal.




This was the bad outcome.

I believe that AA is a great thing.  If they were doing this know, I would become an alcoholic tomorrow.:yesnod:

But, seriously, AA is a good thing.


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Re: This Day In History - August 29, 1956 [Re: DoDahDay]
    #15000113 - 08/30/11 01:33 AM (12 years, 5 months ago)

judging by that picture, the man was clearly an early pioneer of punk rock music


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