Cracked.com presents their list of the five greatest things ever accomplished while high. They said, “To make the cut, an accomplishment has to be considered great by people who could pass a field sobriety test. So no Grateful Dead music.”
The list includes:
#5 Francis Crick Discovers DNA Thanks to LSD
#4 Freud and Cocaine Invent Psychoanalysis
#3 A Coke Addict Makes a Coke-Flavored Cola and Calls it Coke
#2 Dock Ellis Trips His Way to a No-Hitter
#1 Moses Takes ‘Shrooms, Shits Out Ten Commandments
Francis Crick Discovers DNA Thanks to LSD: Crick spent the 50s and 60s throwing all night parties famous for featuring that era’s favorite party favors: LSD and nudity. Crick never made it a secret that he experimented with the drug, and in 2006, the London paper The Mail on Sunday reported that Crick had told many colleagues that he was experimenting with LSD when he figured out the double helix structure.
The 5 Greatest Things Ever Accomplished While High (Cracked.com)