Interview w/ editor of new Leary anthology
| December 20th, 2008
Earlier in the week Boing Boing linked to this interview between Jayden Devereux and the editor of Leary on Drugs, Hassan I Sirius, and I thought it was worth a mention. Very cool stuff.
JD: What were Leary’s favorite drugs?
HIS: I guess they all had their place. He was a social drinker and he was a social guy… so that amounted to a fair amount of drinking. It’s sort of funny – he’s always celebrating great moments in the psychedelic revolution with a glass of champagne or something along those lines. Mind you, I don’t see anything wrong with it. And he always thought LSD was an extraordinarily marvelous invention. In a 1988 article included in the book, he writes about “good old LSD” and marvels that it’s still the best. There’s a segment on heroin. He wasn’t crazy about heroin, even though he found it pleasant when he tried it… and he makes it clear that he wasn’t happy about the dominance of coke and crack in the drug culture during the 1980s.
Timothy Leary’s New Book On Drugs [10 Zen Monkeys]
