My brother (who brings me the most interesting links I know ever get) dropped me this one. Summary: In the late 1950s, the government did experiments involving LSD. In this case, they gave an artist doses at intervals, and let him draw a portrait of the man administering the doses. They also jotted down some of the things he said. There’s 9 drawings altogether, and manohman, it’s wierd.

Rumor at my school was that a teacher in my county was an unwilling participant in some of these experiments. In the small town where he grew up, they decided to use PCP instead of the normal painkillers they gave to patients at the dentist’s office. Thing is, they didn’t ask or tell the patients about this little experiment. As a result, he spent his years as a teenager and a young adult wandering the streets and living out of his truck, because he was haunted by wierd visions and hallucinations. At some point he finally sought help and cleaned up his act, and now he’s a teacher! And a good one … I heard from many people that he connected with students really well. Just that sometimes, he’d be scratching away at the board with chalk, and then he’d be staring off into space …

O_O

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