Steve Jobs rattled for drugs money
A PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED letter from LSD inventor Albert Hoffman to Apple CEO Steve Jobs reminds the Cuppertino Messiah how much he owed to acid.
The letter has been revealed in a new book, "This is your country on drugs: The secret history of getting high in America."
The letter, written just after Hoffmann's 101st birthday [Who said drugs were bad for you? - Ed] addressed Jobs with a proposal for donating some dosh to mates Peter Gasser and Rick Doblin. This pair were behind the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies or MAPS organisation.
Doblin later said that the letter led on to a half hour conversation between he and Jobs, but culminated with no cold hard cash to the cause.
The letter can be read in its entireity here along with an interesting account of the relationship between psychedelic drugs and technology.
In it, Hoffman acknowledges the iPerception Jobs gained from dropping acid: "I understand from media accounts that you feel LSD helped you creatively in your development of Apple computers," he writes.
Hoffman closes the letter requesting that Jobs would help transform his "problem child" into a "wonder child."
We at the INQ are eagerly awaiting the confirmed link between acid and Steve Balmer. µ
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That's not Acid. That's Crack.
Here in Georgia, there are plenty of crack-heads.
I thought you had to be on drugs to buy an Apple anyway?
That's what they put in the Koolaid!
"Doblin later said that the letter led on to a half hour conversation between he and Jobs, but culminated with no cold hard cash to the cause."
Please learn English. This is embarrassing.
"Doblin later said that the letter led on to a half hour conversation between he and Jobs, but culminated with no cold hard cash to the cause."
But was he really talking to St Jobs?
I thought most people on acid communed with God.
this is news?
rattled for drug money? i think hoffman was more likely to have been simply passing around the hat for his psychedelic researcher friends. it's common knowledge that jobs and wozniak were amongst a scene where lsd use was common and people may remember the apple logo used to have a rainbow, a symbol of the hippy movement.
also, the writer of the article misspells Ballmer.