Jimmy Hendrix
(1942 -1970)
American Musician, '60's legend
... Prior to 1966, Jimi's drug experimentation had been limited, partially by economic circumstances, to marijuana, hashish, cheap speed, and, on some rare occasions, cocaine. "In Manhattan, the drugs of choice were cocaine and marijuana," [Hendrix friend and musician] Taharqa Aleem observed. "Nobody in Harlem was doing acid then." Some African Americans perceived LSD as a "white" drug. Later that summer, Jimi tried to talk his uptown friend Lonnie Youngblood into tripping with him. "Jimi was saying all that crap you have in your mind, the spider webs, this clears and focuses it," Youngblood recalled. Lonnie gave Jimi a lecture about the dangers of LSD and how the drug could make you think like a white person. "That was white kids' drugs," Youngblood said. "I didn't want hallucinations. I had a wife, a kid, a car, and an apartment."
source: seatle weekly
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