Once that internet trip wears off I have a story to tell you about…

There was this crazy dude in the neighborhood I grew up in, everyone called him Power-Mike. Power-Mike sat outside an ice cream shop everyday in a full suit, rain sleet or snow, drinking Budweisers out of a coffee cup. Sounds fuckin awesome, right? Ehhh…not really.

If you ever tried talking to Power-Mike you were considered a fucking moron. Nothing that came out of his mouth made any sense, and he was guaranteed to yell some really offensive racial slurs mid-conversation. I once saw him yell at a lady for tying her dog to a tree because “she didn’t put any fuckin’ coffee in the meter.” For real.

Anyway, the story of Power-Mike goes like this: around 1970, when Power-Mike was in high school, his senior class took a trip out to an amusement park in New Jersey. This was the day that Power-Mike’s life changed. One of his classmates decided it would be funny to spike his soda with LSD while he wasn’t looking, and from then on, well…take a guess. Supposedly the acid kicked in while he was riding on a roller-coaster. After the ride, he punched the attendant in the face, got arrested, went bat-shit crazy, and became the resident crazy of Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.

The history of LSD usage in America parallels the story of Power-Mike more than you might expect. Forget all that lovey-dovey, peace and happiness shit that your parents told you about. When LSD was first introduced in America, the CIA went absolutely CRAZY experimenting with it’s potential military uses. They initially thought it was going to be a revolutionary new way to interrogate military hostages and control entire enemy populations. NO JOKE, you can read all about it here.

LEARN ABOUT AN ENTIRE FRENCH TOWN THAT WAS DRUGGED BY THE CIA AFTER THE JUMP!!!!!!!!!


Oh shit! Stanley Tucci!!?!?! WHY?!?!?!

So a lot of evidence for this CIA misconduct stuff has been re-surfacing lately. The most notable of which is the story of a French village called Pont St. Espirit, where for the past 50 years, residents have been trying to understand what’s known as the “cursed bread” incident, a moment of terrifying mass insanity and hallucinations that left at least five dead and dozens in asylums.

Yup, you guessed it! Pont St. Espirit was actually the subject of a massive CIA experiment on the effects of LSD. Residents unwillingly endured a hardcore acid trip after good ol’ Uncle Sam spiked their bread supply with acid, and consequently, a lot of people lost their fucking marbles just like Power-Mike. Isn’t it crazy how in retrospect shit that the government did/does is just so OBVIOUSLY wrong and misinformed. The Cold War was CRAZY, kids! AND DON’T YOU FORGET IT!

Now if we could just get the CIA to start fumigating New York with massive amounts of weed smoke. It would probably look something like this:

HAPPY HAPPY PEOPLE!!!!

2 Responses to “ACID FLASHBACK FRIDAYS!: Pont St. Espirit”

  1. jacque Says:

    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/long_strange_trip_v7tNUubYaF9QqMpJvM0W1I

  2. tell me now Says:

    unbelievable

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