Drug Abuse: drugs and intelligence
 
 

One of the 1960's "beat" poets, recently spoke of the role of drugs among that ultra-modern group of word artists.  He said that he made a point of using every one of the many available mind-altering drugs at least once during each year.  It was a way to keep his mind creative, he said.     He explained that those drugs were put here on earth to foster the evolutionary advance of human intelligence.

A geneticist, on hearing the poet's opinions, commented that the observation on evolution was certainly correct.  "Dangerous drugs do advance evolution," he said.    "But I think that poet," he continued, "has a few things backwards about how the mechanism works."    "I'm glad that poet survived though," he said with a wink.  "I kind of like his poetry."