Crying of Lot 49:Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (1)

I still remember how my grandma freaked out when she found out what that song was really about.

So the book is situated between the 50's or 60's, meaning the big bang of drugs is starting to or about to start to happen, but that doesn't matter since LSD has been around sing the late 1930's. My dad once told me the story of how LSD was invented and how it was meant to be used for medical purposes, but what caught my attention most was how the scientist who invented it felt the effect for the first time himself when he got high by mistake. He took a small amount but underestimated the effect it would cause and went home in his bicycle and called a doctor thinking he was ill, not intoxicated.

Not long ago there was a debate on wether the personal dosage of marijuana should be allowed in Colombia for those who used it for medicinal purposes. If I'm not wrong, pretty soon it will be legal to carry around a small bag with weed around as long as it's not too much and something just tells me that a leakage in the system will happen. It wouldn't be the first time teenagers squeeze around the law to get away with being cool, fake I.D.s are a great example of this: they're like a backstage pass into the adult world and these silly runts cant their hands off them.

No matter how much they forbid people form getting their hands on certain substances there's is virtually no possible way of doing so completely. We're just that smart.