Opinions - Mind Expanding or High Time?

[FlyingFurthur]

There has been many debates about whether LSD is actually a brilliant drug. For instant, especially in the 60's and 70's, many breakthroughs in mind, science, and art were made while being on the drug.

"When I'm on LSD and hearing something that's pure rhythm, it takes me to another world and into anther brain state where I've stopped thinking and started knowing," said Herbert who intervened to ban drug testing of technologists at Cisco Systems.

Nobel Prize Winner for Chemistry in 1993 and inventor of PCR, a method for detecting even the smallest amount of DNA in ancient materials. "Would I have invented PCR if I hadn't taken LSD? I seriously doubt it," he says. "I could sit on a DNA molecule and watch the polymers go by. I learnt that partly on psychedelic drugs."

Or say, people like the Merry Pranksters, Jimi Hendrix, Huxley, The Doors, and the Beatles

Author of 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' (written on mescaline when he worked as a night shift hospital porter). Formed The Pranksters, a chaotic bunch of drop-outs who toured America in a bright green bus, taking acid and holding huge festival-like 'Acid Tests' with music and lights.
*This is actually not an accurate description of the Pranksters, at all*


In the 1960's when they did a bunch of tests with the drug. During one, they gave drug addicts LSD, and they all hated it. But the human morality and brillance has dropped since then for the most part, in my opinion.

So my question to SWIY, does swiy feel that LSD is a mind expanding drug? Does swiy feel that another drug is better? Or does swiy just like tripping out? What are some ideas swiy has had on LSD?