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Mothers of Invention – musicians

Mullis, Dr. Kary – Nobel Prize winning DNA expert, and surfer. Mullis received a 1993 Nobel Prize for
single-handedly inventing the PCR reaction, one of the most important advances in molecular
biology ever made. When asked by a reporter what his hobbies were, he replied that they were
surfing, chasing young women, and using hallucinogenic drugs. (Hopefully not all at the same time.)
He said this prior to receiving his prize, and was told by a friend on the nominating committee that
he had been up for consideration but would not receive the prize until he cooled it with the LSD talk.
He did cool it, and the next year got the prize. I got this from an excerpt from his book "Dancing
Through the Mind Field", which was on the Internet a couple of years ago.

Nicholson, Jack – actor

Nin, Anais – writer, liberated woman

Nolte, Nick -- Actor: In the early Sixties, when Leary and Alpert were sending LSD around, a
professor of photography that I was working with had received a letter from them with instructions
on how to take it. You had to let go and realise they were all hallucinations. That way you're fine. So
we would go out to the desert, take the LSD and lay down in sleeping bags for eight hours. Ken
Kesey said you could walk around on it, but taking acid and going to a concert became a nightmare.
(LSD & MDMA are the best drugs to take at a concert where there's plenty of room to dance. --
Raquel)

Osmond, Humphry – Psychiatrist, coined word, "psychedelic", gave Huxley mescaline,
experimented with LSD to cure alcoholism, see below

Santana, Carlos – musician, see Hendrix, above.

Shulgin, Alexander – PsychoPharmacologist/Chemist, author of PIHKAL: A Chemical Love Story
and TIHKAL: The Continuation. The titles are acronyms: "Phenethylamines/Tryptamines I Have
Known & Loved". These volumes chronicle the author's psychedelic experiments and includes
recipies for future pioneers. Shulgin received a plaque from the Department of Justice for his
"significant personal efforts to help eliminate drug abuse." His wife, Ann says that he never planned
to make money from his inventions. He didn't mind helping the government put amphetamine or
cocaine dealers in jail. Those drugs were "false in some way," he says. "The sense of power they
give is not real." They were only marginally better than marijuana — in his opinion "a complete
waste of time." [Yes, I prefer LSD to pot but . . .] On a neurochemical level psychedelics release the
same mood modifiers — such as serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine —as many
antidepressants. Shulgin is no longer calling his compounds psychedelics. His latest molecules are
better described as antidepressants, he says. See 10-page article about Shulgin in Playboy, March
2004.

Sklar-Weinstein, Arlene – artist