In 1964, a Dutch librarian drilled a hole in his own skull to get permanently high
by Ellsworth Toohey from Boing Boing on (#76TT4)
According to Bart Huges, the Dutch librarian attended medical school in Amsterdam "but was refused a degree due to his advocacy of marijuana use." In 1964 he published a scroll arguing that trepanation - drilling a hole in the skull - "could be used to enhance brain functionality by balancing the proportion of blood and cerebral spinal fluid." - Read the rest
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