One Half of the Founders of one of the biggest companies today, Apple, Steve Jobs once stated that Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) was one of the most influential experiences of his life.
Welcome to the Invest In Our Trip Blog, today we discuss the late Steve Jobs. At this point, everybody is well acquainted with the famous Apple brand and its numerous devices. But did you know that it's founder has publicly advocated for LSD and how it has influenced his life? Pretty crazy huh? The man behind your iPhone has also tripped sack just like you. He would openly comment on his opinions regarding his recreational drug and would even face incarceration because of it.
“Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life … LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important — creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.”
Jobs has even went as far as to say that Microsoft would be a better company if Bill Gates were to dose on the drug. All though he credits the substance in allowing him to conceive the plethora of gadgets he's produced, his partner, Steve Wozniak, didn't partake in any recreational drug use at all.
"I have never used an illicit drug. I never spoke to Steve Jobs about drugs or heard from him about drugs even a single time. He never brought it up around me. I had many friends in my high school in Cupertino who used LSD (1966-1968) and many bright ones too but (a) I had many ways to have fun and (b) if it would expand my mind, I felt I had a great mind and wanted to be judged as myself, not myself plus an aid. I did accept drug use by others and was accepted among them and never was judgmental. I don't have any strong resistance to using LSD someday but after a certain point in your life, what's the point? Don't be judgmental. Don't call yourself right and others, who do different things, wrong. Same for computer and smart phone platforms."
Sources
Digital Editors , June 4th, 2021, Steve Jobs described his LSD trips in college as ' 1 of the most important things in his life, Accessed on Juley12th, 2022
Steve Kovach, July 17th, 2012, Steve Wozniak Tells us Why He's Never Done LSD, Business Insider, Accessed on July 12th, 2022
Yoni Heister, June 12th, 2012, Steve Job's LSD Habit, Why he indulged in marijuana and his 1975 arrest, Network World, Accessed on July 12th, 2022
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