Will 24 thank us next?
Our new library branch, named for the "Greatest Canadian" T.C. Douglas opens soon. His daughter Shirley Douglas sent a note of thanks to the city recently.
Will Kiefer thank us next for our appreciation of his grandfather?
Will Kiefer thank us next for our appreciation of his grandfather?
posted by Robert Burnaby at 10:53 AM
18 Comments:
Why would she?
It would be like thanking the plumber for getting the toilet fixed.
When do the lay-offs begin?
What ever happened to naming civic places after community names or unique things in a community. Much like Edmonds or Brentwood or Heights. Names people can relate to.
Why do we need them named after politicians? After all we all know what the public thinks of politicians.
and political hacks.
Tommy Douglas - The father of LSD experimentation in Canada
Mental Health and Canadian Society:
Historical Perspectives
By James E. Moran and David Wright
available for viewing (and purchase!) at Google Books
see pages 14 and 237
"I'm not sure what the social implications will be of a measurable, visible, biochemical schizophrenia but it is, I think (and one can always be a bit premature) very close around the corner,"
- letter from Dr. Humphrey Osmond to Douglas, thanking him for allowing LSD experiments at Weyburn Hospital.
Tommy Douglas - The father of LSD experimentation in Canada
_______________________
Now we know why he was so concerned about a government medical system.
He know all the acidheads would need psychiatric help down the road.
There's a few in this blog that could use some psychiatric help.
Speak for yourself.
You ought to know yourself.
There were many LSD experiments across Canada that had nothing to do with Douglas.
Institutions in Quebec and BC were also involved in this insidious experimentation on an unsuspecting (or gullible) public.
At least by promoting medicare, Douglas was trying to find a solution to what may have been his biggest mistake.
So how did this go from naming a local library to LSD?
Someone's flyin' high there, man..
How?
The comment at 10/19/2009 8:23 AM seems to answer that question.
No it doesn't.
Might want to ease off on the mainlinin'.
No sense in freebasing that NDP stuff either.
That is bad junk. A bad trip.
Makes for a bad scene, man..
Can ya dig it?
How's this?
From the CBC's The Current, Feb. 18, 2004?
http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2004/200402/20040218.html
Last Word - Psychedelic
Today's last word is one that has become short-hand for an entire generation of pill-popping 60s hipsters.
Today's word is … psychedelic.
And it was coined in of all places Weyburn, Saskatchewan, way back in 1956.
The man who coined it … Dr. Humphrey Osmond … died a couple of weeks ago in Wisconsin. But he is best known for over 10 years spent in Canada's prairie province as the superintendent of the Saskatchewan Hospital.
There, in the late 50s and early 60s, Dr. Osmond and his colleagues administered large doses of LSD to patients as a means of combating alcoholism.
His work was supported by Tommy Douglas's CCF government and eventually it gained a high-level of counter-cultural notoriety. Dr. Osmond even gave writer Aldous Huxley his first dose of mescalin, an experience the author later recounted in the 60s classic 'The Doors of Perception.'
And the word itself?
Looking for a better way to describe hallucinogenic drugs, Oswald sent a rhyming couplet to Huxley …
To fathom Hell or soar angelic
Just take a pinch of psychedelic
The word stuck, and the rest is pop culture history…
Someone is on a trip.
Outta sight, man.
Totally cool, eh?
I knew you'd dig it!
Right on, man...
Right on!
Yeah, baby!
Stephen Harper's got nothing on this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-yy2URAYqU
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