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   He added that Bill Gates would “be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once.” Ouch.

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Eisenhower era psychedelia.

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Science used to be a lot more fun. “Let's feed people acid and see what happens” is the kind of idea that I want my tax dollars going towards.

Warning: Unicorn Sodomy included. Song is Hermanos Inglesos feat. MeMe - Wanderland. (Directed by Kristof Luyckx )

1. 1. True: The CIA Dosed An Entire French Village With Acid To See What Would Happen

   

   According to BoingBoing the CIA laced bread from a village bakery in Pont-Saint-Esprit with acid as part of its MK-ULTRA mind-control experiments. One man tried to drown himself, a young boy tried to strangle his grandmother, and a dude jumped out of a window under the mistaken assumption that he was a plane. Nice one, CIA. Really cool.

2. 2. True: Baseball Legend Dock Ellis Once Pitched a No-Hitter Under the Influence of LSD

   This is his awesome story.

3. 3. False: Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds Does Not Stand for LSD

   Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds was the title of the below drawing, by Lennon's son Julian. The drawing is of his friend Lucy Vodden, in the sky, with diamonds. Whether young Julian was taking acid at the time is up for debate.

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5. 4. False: Drug Dealers Do Not Hand out Rub-on Tattoos Laced With LSD to Children

   Ever hear that Blue Star Acid story about kids being given acid in the form of tattoos? Total crock. Why would drug dealers give away acid for free?

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7. 5. False: Nobody Ever Took Acid And Thought They Were an Orange

   There have been zero reported cases of acid casualties being confined to a psych ward because they think they'll turn into OJ if anyone touches them. Hasn't stopped anyone from telling that old story over the last 50 years or so, though.

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9. 6. True: The US Government Gave Artists LSD To See How It Would Affect Their Work

   This is a series of drawings of a face, made by an artist at intervals after taking LSD. Click here to read his notes. The last one is awesome: "I have nothing to say about this last drawing, it is bad and uninteresting, I want to go home now."

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11. 7. True: You Can Totally Get Acid In Obama Flavors!

    

12. 8. True: Aldous Huxley Took Acid The Day He Died

    In addition to Brave New World, Huxley wrote a seminal text on hallucinogens entitled The Doors of Perception. And he went out like a badass.

14. 9. True: A High School Student in Santa Cruz Totally Dosed His Teacher With Acid on a Field Trip

    You can read the whole wacky story here.

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16. 10. True: The British Tested The Effects of LSD on Members of the Armed Forces

    The results were kind of hilarious.

18. 11. True: This Girl Had a Really Bad Acid Trip

19. Inside LSD

    And now, from National Geographic Explorer, everything else you ever wanted to know about lysergic acid diethylamide.

Apparently, dosing a French village wasn't enough for them.

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Absolutely amazing animation telling the first person account of the true story behind Dock Ellis' trippy no-hitter.

Texas teen associated with Mother’s Against Drunk Driving delivers LSD laced cookies to police departments across North Texas.

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A book called Gallop! employs a new patented technology called scanimation which makes static print images look animated.

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