Drug Users
Because of its criminalization and stigma, most successful recreational drug users do not have the courage to share this part of their lives. One of the few areas where drug users are not blackballed is in the arts - actors, musicians, etc. Because of this there is an abundance of modern artists that are "out of the closet," and their inclusion will not be a focus of this assembly. The following people have used these illegal drugs.
Amphetamine
current United States Air Force pilots
Winston Churchill (British Prime Minister)
Anthony Eden (British Prime Minister)
President John F. Kennedy
World War II & Vietnam veterans
Barbiturate
John Kenneth Galbraith (economist)
Anne Sexton (poet)
Mao Zedong (revolutionary)
LSD
Note: It is highly likely that the ancient Greeks and Romans used a natural equivalent of LSD. To learn more see You Will Die: The Burden of Modern Taboos.
Richard Branson (CEO, self-made billionaire)
Aristotle
Cicero
Douglas Englebart (invented computer mouse)
Richard Feynman (Nobel laureate in physics)
Michel Foucault (philosopher)
Bill Gates
Cary Grant
Steve Jobs (Apple co-founder/CEO, self-made billionaire)
Mitch Kapor (software pioneer)
Robert Kennedy
Francis Krick (Nobel laureate in physiology)
Groucho Marx
Kary Mulis (Nobel laureate in chemistry)
Anaïs Nin (writer)
Plato
Sophocles
For the numerous famous people who have used cocaine, marijuana,
opiates, and other drugs see You Will Die: The
Burden of Modern Taboos.
Most information taken from You Will Die: The Burden of Modern Taboos, Book I by Robert R. Arthur. Detailed documentation of sources can be found therein.
Page last modified January 3, 2009.