List of Famous Drug Users |
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| Isaac Abrams, artist LSD |
| Tim Allen, actor, comedian "Home Improvement", "The Santa Clause" cocaine |
| Richard Alpert (also known as Baba Ram Das), psychologist, author, guru LSD |
| Lewis Daniel Armstrong, musician ("Satchmo") marijuana |
| Allen Atwell, artist LSD |
| Marcus Aurelius, philosopher, emperor of Rome opium |
| Ginger Baker, musician amphetamines |
| Tallulah Bankhead, actress cocaine |
| Marion Barry, mayor of Washington, D.C. cocaine, alcohol |
| Charles Baudelaire, poet absinthe |
| The Beatles, musicians marijuana, LSD |
| John Belushi, comedian, actor marijuana, heroin, cocaine |
| Sarah Bernhardt, actress cocaine |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet opium |
| Lenny Bruce, comedian, free speech activist marijuana, heroin |
| William S. Burroughs, historian, author: "Naked Lunch", "I, Claudius" cocaine, opium |
| Lewis Carrol, mathematician, photographer, author: "Alice in Wonderland" mushrooms |
| Winston Churchill, British prime minister alcohol |
| Grover Cleveland, U.S. president cocaine |
| William Clinton, U.S. president "Well, I did smoke pot, but I didn't inhale. And I was in England, so it really doesn't count. Plus, no-one saw me. So what's the big fuss? The half million people arrested for pot last year are just sore losers." (If you got locked up for a few decades, you would be too.) marijuana |
| Jean Cocteau, playwrite: "Orpheus" opium S |
| amuel Taylor Coleridge, poet: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" opium (laudanum) |
| Wilkie Collins, author: "The Moonstone" opium |
| David Crosby, Musician, founding member of "The Byrds" and "Crosby, Stills and Nash" marijuana, cocaine |
| Aleister Crowley, magician, author: "Magick Without Tears", "Moonchild", "The Book of Thoth", "Diary of a Drug Fiend", "Theory of Magick" EVERYTHING |
| Salivor Dali, painter "Everyone should eat hashish, but only once." hashish |
| Thomas DeQuincy, author: "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" opium (laudanum) |
| Charles Dickens, author: "A Christmas Carol", "Oliver Twist" opium |
| Arthur Conan Doyle, logican, author: "Sherlock Holmes" (a cocaine user) opium |
| Isadora Duncan (revolutionized dance) cocaine |
| Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, industrialist cocaine, alcohol |
| Havelock Ellis, physician, author: "Psychology of Sex", essay: "Mezcal: A New Artificial Paradise" peyote |
| Carrie Fisher, Actress, screenwriter prescription drugs |
| Ben Franklin, inventor, publisher, scientist, American statesman opium, marijuana |
| Peter Fonda, actor marijuana, LSD |
| Sigmund Freud, physician, "Father of Psychoanalysis" cocaine |
| Jerry Garcia, musician (with The Grateful Dead), philospher, spiritual consultant to Jefferson Airplane, religious leader LSD, marijuana, heroin |
| Newt Ginrich, Speaker of the Senate "See, when I smoked pot it was illegal, but not immoral. Now, it is illegal AND immoral. The law didn't change, only the morality. That's why you get to go to jail and I don't. Any questions?" Yes, does he really believe himself? marijuana |
| Al Gore, U.S. vice-president "My work on the environment is so important that I can't take the time off to go to jail for something so trivial as marijuana. But its okay with me if you go." (Insensitive snot) marijuana |
| Ulysses S. Grant, U.S. president cocaine, alcohol |
| Grateful Dead, musicians marijuana |
| Jimi Hendrix, musician, singer, legendary guitar player LSD, heroin |
| Albert Hoffman, chemist, discovered LSD and became a proponant LSD |
| Billie Holliday, singer opium |
| Dennis Hopper, actor marijuana |
| Aldous Huxley, author: "Brave New World", "Island", "Doors of Perception" mescaline |
| William James, physician, philosopher nitrous oxide, ether, peyote |
| Jefferson Airplane/Starship, musicians maijuana |
| Thomas Jefferson, U.S. president, inventor, architect, marijuana farmer marijuana |
| Jesus the Nazerite, Carpenter, Rabbi, "Christ" * Amanita muscaria, also known as fly agaric. Evidence available from R. Gordon Wasson, ("Soma, The Divine Mushroom of Immortality") mushroom expert and executive to J.P. Morgan. Another case was made by John M. Allegro, noted Bible scholar and linguist, who presented evidence in "The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross" that the story of Jesus was actually an allegory on the properties of the amanita. alcohol, mushrooms* |
| Steve Jobs, co-creator of the Apple computer, the NeXt computer, and former head of Apple Computers, Inc. marijuana, LSD |
| Janis Joplin, singer heroin, alcohol |
| Stacy Keach, actor (Mike Hammer) cocaine |
| John Keats, poet opium |
| Ken Kesey, author: "One Flew Over the Coo-Coo's Nest", "Once a Great Notion" * Mr. Kesey's personal correction: I only had him down for LSD, to which he commented that someone not willing to try anything, is not a real truth-seeker, but only a dilatant. EVERYTHING* |
| Archibald Leach (actor Cary Grant) LSD |
| Timothy Leary, psychologist, Father of Transactional Analysis, software author: "Mindwheel". "Turn on, tune in, drop out." LSD, marijuana Donovan Leich, musician LSD, marijuana |
| Pope Leo XIII cocaine |
| John Cunningham Lilly, physician, scientist (electronics, dolphin communication, sensory deprivation), philosopher, author: "Mind of the Dolphin", "Center of the Cyclone" LSD, ketamine |
| Bela Lugosi, actor opium, morphine |
| Bob Marley, musician "The Father of Reggae Music" marijuana |
| Judge Marquat, Arizona Supreme Court Justice, involved in Miranda ruling. marijuana |
| Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator opium |
| Joni Mitchell, Musician Marijuana Wier Mitchell, physician, author: "Injuries of the Nerves and their Consequences" peyote |
| Mohammed, spiritual leader hashish |
| Marcia Moore, Sheraton Hotel heiress, author: "Hypersentience", Journeys into the Bright World" LSD marijuana, ketamine |
| Jim Morrison, lead singer for The Doors cocaine, alocohol, LSD, marijuana |
| Mothers of Invention, musicians LSD, marijuana |
| Willie Nelson, musician marijuana |
| Jack Nicholson, actor marijuana, LSD |
| Stevie Nicks, singer cocaine |
| Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus, Father of Modern Medicine opium |
| Pablo Picasso, painter, "The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world." opium |
| Plotinus, Roman philosopher, 205-270 AD opium |
| Edgar Allen Poe, poet, author: "The Raven", "The Fall of the House of Usher" opium |
| Jackson Pollack, painter (His work sold for up to $8,000,000 a piece.) alcohol |
| Cole Porter, composer cocaine |
| Elvis Presley, singer, actor prescription drugs |
| Richard Pryor, actor, comedian cocaine |
| Cardinal Duc de Richelieu, leading minister to king Louis XIII opium |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. president alcohol |
| Sir Walter Scott, poet, author opium |
| Shelly, poet opium |
| Arlene Sklar-Weinstein, artist LSD |
| Robert Louis Stevenson, author cocaine, morphine |
| The Rolling Stones (reputed to be the greatest rock-and-roll band in the world) marijuana, LSD |
| Desmond Taylor, film director cocaine |
| Clarence Thomas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice "I was smart enough to use pot without getting caught, and now I'm on the Supreme Court. If you were stupid enough to get caught, that's your problem. Your appeal is denied. This 40 year sentence just might teach you a lesson." Clearly, a hateful man. marijuana |
| Vincent Van Gogh, painter absinthe, camphor |
| Jesse Ventura, wrestler, governor of Minnesota marijuana |
| Jules Verne, author: "The Time Machine", "War of the Worlds", "2,000 Leagues Under the Sea" cocaine |
| George Washington, U.S. president, marijuana farmer marijuana (sensimilla) |
| Alan Watts, Zen philosopher, masters degree in religion, doctorate in divinity, author: "The Joyous Cosmology", "Zen Sticks, Zen Bones", "The Taboo against Knowing Who You Are", "The Wisdom of Insecurity". LSD, marijuana, mescaline, psilocybin, dimethyl-tryptamine (DMT), alcohol |
| Andrew Wiel, physician, psychopharmicologist, anthropologist, fire-walker, alternative health expert, author: "The Natural Mind", "Spontaneous Healing", "8 Weeks to Optimum Health" marijuana, peyote, yage (S. American hallucinagin) |
| William Wilberforce, almost singlehandedly got slavery abolished throughout the British Empire ---> |
