Famous People and Their Drug Use
v1.0 - Feb 1, 2004
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| Abrams, Isaac | Psilocybin, Mescaline, Cannabis, LSD | Artist | Krippner S. "The Psychedelic State, The Hypnotic Trance, and the Creative Act," Altered States of Consciousness, ed Charles T. Tart. John Wiley & Sons, 1969,1972. | LINK | 1 | |
| Aitken, Jonathan | LSD | Conservative British member of parliament took LSD in 1966 in order to review it for the Evening Standard. Described "visions of hell. Continents dripping with blood. Black men fighting brown men, fighting yellow men." | LINK | 1 | ||
| Allen, Steve | LSD ?? | Oscar Janigar's Files | 2 | |||
| Allen, Tim | Cocaine | LINK | 0 | |||
| Alpert, Richard | LSD, Cannabis, Mescaline, DMT, Mushrooms | 2 | ||||
| Amos, Tori | Ayahuasca | Musician | 2 | |||
| Armstrong, Lewis | Cannabis | Musician | LINK | 0 | ||
| Artaud, Antonin | Peyote | 0 | ||||
| Atwell, Allen | LSD | LINK | 0 | |||
| Aurelius, Marcus | Opium | 2 | ||||
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| Baker, Ginger | Amphetamine | Musician | LINK | 0 | ||
| Bankhead, Tallulah | Cocaine | Actor | LINK | 0 | ||
| Barry, Marion | Cocaine | 2 | ||||
| Bartholdi, Frederic | Coca Wine | Musto, David. The American Experience with Stimulants and Opiates. 1998. | 1 | |||
| Bateson, Gregory | LSD ?? | Oscar Janigar's Files | 2 | |||
| Baudelaire, Charles | Absinthe | LINK | 0 | |||
| The Beatles | Cannabis, LSD | LINK | 0 | |||
| Belushi, John | Cannabis, Heroin, Cocaine, LSD | died under the influence of heroin & cocaine | LINK | 3 | ||
| Bernhart, Sarah | Cocaine | 0 | ||||
| Browning, Elizabeth Barrett | Opium | LINK | 0 | |||
| Bruce, Lenny | Heroin, Cannabis | LINK | 0 | |||
| Amphetamine | LINK | 1 | ||||
| Burroughs, William | Cocaine, Heroin, Mescaline, Opium, Psilocybin, LSD, Cannabis, Ayahuasca | Kramer JC. "William Burroughs: A Sketch." Journal of Psychoactive Drugs. 1981 | LINK | 1 | ||
| Methamphetamine | Burroughs, William. Speed. | 1 | ||||
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| Campbell, Ali | Cannabis | UB40 singer. Used Cannabis to quit alcohol | LINK | 3 | ||
| Carrol, Lewis | ?? | LINK | 0 | |||
| Hashish | LINK | 3 | ||||
| Charles, Ray | Heroin | Arrested on a drug charge in 1964 and has admitted to a two decade long addiction to heroin. | CNN Headline News. June 10, 2004. | 1 | ||
| Churchill, Winston | Nitrous | Wallechinsky et al. The Book of Lists. | 2 | |||
| Clapton, Eric | Heroin | Musician | "The confessions of Eric Clapton". CNN.com. Oct 24, 2007. | LINK | 1 | |
| Cocaine | "The confessions of Eric Clapton". CNN.com. Oct 24, 2007. | LINK | 1 | |||
| Cleveland, Grover | Cocaine | US President | LINK | 0 | ||
| Clinton, William | Cannabis | 0 | ||||
| Cocteau, Jean | Opium | LINK | 0 | |||
| Cobain, Kurt | Heroin | 2 | ||||
| Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | Laudanum (Opium) | LINK | 0 | |||
| Nitrous | Wallechinsky et al. The Book of Lists. | 2 | ||||
| Collins, Wilkie | Opium | LINK | 0 | |||
| Colt, Samuel | Nitrous | Wallechinsky et al. The Book of Lists. | 2 | |||
| Corso, Gregori | Nitrous | Wallechinsky et al. The Book of Lists. | 2 | |||
| Cros, Charles | Absinthe | LINK | 2 | |||
| Crosby, David | Cannabis, Cocaine, LSD | Hagman L. "Hello Darlin': Tall (and Absolutely True) Tales About My Life" | LINK | 0 | ||
| Crowley, Aleister | Many, Heroin | 0 | ||||
| Hashish | LINK | 2 | ||||
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| Dali, Salvidor | Hashish | LINK | 3 | |||
| Davy, Humphry | Nitrous | Wallechinsky et al. The Book of Lists. | 2 | |||
| Delacroix, Eugene | Hashish | LINK | 3 | |||
| Dawson, Ernest | Hashish | LINK | 3 | |||
| DeQuincy, Thomas | Opium | 2 | ||||
| Dickens, Charles | Opium | LINK | 0 | |||
| Dole, Bob | Viagra | 2 | ||||
| The Doors | LSD, Mescaline, Cannabis | 0 | ||||
| Downey Jr, Robert | Cocaine, Amphetamine | 2 | ||||
| Doyle, Arthur Conan | Opium, Cocaine | 3 | ||||
| Drake, Nick | Amitriptyline | Nick Drake died of an overdose of tryptizol | 2 | |||
| Dreiser, Theodore | Nitrous | Wallechinsky et al. The Book of Lists. | 2 | |||
| Dumas, Alexander | Hashish | LINK | 3 | |||
| Duncan, Isadora | Cocaine | LINK | 0 | |||
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| Eden, Anthony | Amphetamine | British Prime Minister used benzedrine to help get him through the Suez crisis in 1952. | LINK | 2 | ||
| Edison, Thomas | Coca Wine | High Times Encyclopedia of Recreational Drugs. Stonehill, 1978. Musto, David. The American Experience with Stimulants and Opiates. 1998. |
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| Ellis, Havelock | Peyote | LINK | 0 | |||
| Eminem | Ecstasy, LSD | LINK | 2 | |||
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| Farley, Chris | Morphine | died under the influence | 2 | |||
| Fat Boy Slim | Ecstasy, Ketamine | LINK | 2 | |||
| Fisher, Carrie | Prescription Drugs | LINK | 0 | |||
| Fonda, Peter | LSD, Cannabis | LINK | 0 | |||
| Franklin, Ben | Opium, Cannabis | LINK | 0 | |||
| Freud, Sigmund | Cocaine | 0 | ||||
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| Garcia, Jerry | Heroin, LSD, Cannabis, Cocaine | Cocaine (arrest record) | 2 | |||
| Garfunkel, Art | Cannabis | Cannabis (arrested & pled, 2004) | 2 | |||
| Garland, Judy | Amphetamine, Barbiturates | died under the influence | LINK (2) | 2 | ||
| Gates, Bill | LSD | "The Bill Gates Interview." Playboy. Dec 8, 1994. | 1 | |||
| Ginsberg, Allen | Nitrous | Wallechinsky et al. The Book of Lists. | 2 | |||
| Ayahuasca | The Yage Letters. | 2 | ||||
| Gladstone, William | Opium | LINK | 0 | |||
| Goettell, Dwayne | Heroin | member of Skinny Puppy | died under the influence of heroin | 3 | ||
| Gore, Al | Cannabis | 2 | ||||
| Gore, Tipper | Cannabis | LINK | 3 | |||
| Gounod, Charles | Coca Wine | His image was used in advertising for Vin Mariani | Musto, David. The American Experience with Stimulants and Opiates. 1998. | 1 | ||
| Grant, Cary | LSD | 2 | ||||
| Grant, Ulysses S. | Cocaine | Courtwright, DT. Forces of Habit. Harvard U. Press, 2001. | LINK | 1 | ||
| Grateful Dead | Cannabis, LSD | 0 | ||||
| Graves, Robert | ?? | 0 | ||||
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| Hagman, Larry | LSD, Peyote, Cannabis | Hagman L. "Hello Darlin': Tall (and Absolutely True) Tales About My Life" | 1 | |||
| Harrison, George | LSD, Mushrooms, Cannabis | 0 | ||||
| Halstead, William | Morphine | used morphine daily | 2 | |||
| Hemingway, Ernest | Absinthe | LINK | 2 | |||
| Hendrix, Jimi | LSD, Heroin, Barbiturates | Died under the influence of seconal and alcohol? Death certificate lists "barbituate overdose". | Death Certificate | 2 | ||
| Cannabis | LINK | 2 | ||||
| Harrelson, Woody | Cannabis | outspoken marijuana legalization activist | 2 | |||
| Hilton, Paris | Mushrooms | Home Video, TheSmokingGun.com | http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0628071parishilton1.html | 1 | ||
| Cannabis, Hashish | Home Video, TheSmokingGun.com | http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0628071parishilton1.html | 1 | |||
| Hitler, Adolph | Amphetamine | 2 | ||||
| Mescaline, Methamphetamine | 3 | |||||
| Hoffman, Abbie | Cannabis, Cocaine | outspoken cannabis activist | LINK | 2 | ||
| Hoffman, Albert | LSD | LSD, My Problem Child | 1 | |||
| Psilocybin | 2 | |||||
| Holliday, Billie | Heroin, Opium | 2 | ||||
| Hopper, Dennis | Cannabis | LINK | 0 | |||
| Hugo, Victor | Hashish | LINK | 3 | |||
| Huxley, Aldous | Mescaline, LSD | 2 | ||||
| Psilocybin | 3 | |||||
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| Jackson, Andrew | Cannabis (Hemp) | Rumored to have smoked hemp, but we have seen little evidence. | Conrad Chris. Hemp: Lifeline to the Future. 1994 | LINK | 4 | |
| Jagger, Jade | Cannabis | has called herself a pro-choice pot smoker | LINK | 2 | ||
| James, William | Nitrous | 2 | ||||
| Ether, Peyote | LINK | 2 | ||||
| Jarry, Alfred | Absinthe | LINK | 2 | |||
| Jefferson Airplane | Cannabis | 3 | ||||
| Jefferson, Thomas | Cannabis (Hemp) | Is known to have grown hemp. We have seen little evidence that he smoked it. | Conrad Chris. Hemp: Lifeline to the Future. 1994 | LINK | 4 | |
| Jobs, Steve | LSD, Cannabis | LINK | 2 | |||
| John, Elton | Cocaine | reported taking cocaine to boost his confidence | LINK | 1 | ||
| Jolie, Angelina | LSD, Cocaine, Heroin, MDMA, Cannabis | In 2007 Jolie described experimenting with many substances to media." | LINK | 1 | ||
| Joplin, Janis | Heroin | died under the influence of heroin & alcohol. | LINK | 2 | ||
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| Keats, John | Opium | LINK | 3 | |||
| Kesey, Ken | LSD, Many others | LINK | 2 | |||
| Mescaline | Wronte "one flew over the cuckoo's nest" while on mescaline | LINK | 2 | |||
| Nitrous | Wallechinsky et al. The Book of Lists. | 2 | ||||
| AMT, Psilocybin | Shulgin, TIHKAL AMT entry | 1 | ||||
| King George V | Cocaine, Opium | LINK | 2 | |||
| King, Stephen | Cocaine | LINK | 2 | |||
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| Leary, Timothy | LSD, Cannabis | 2 | ||||
| Psilocybin/Mushrooms | Hollingshead, The Man Who Turned On the World | 1 | ||||
| Ketamine, Psilocybin/Mushrooms | LINK | 2 | ||||
| Leich, Donovan | LSD, Cannabis | LINK | 0 | |||
| Lennon, John | LSD, Mushrooms, Cannabis | 2 | ||||
| Heroin | LINK | 2 | ||||
| Lennon, Sean | MDMA | Leon S. "Son of a Beatle." Magic Mushrooms and Other Highs. Ed, P. Krassner. Ten Speed Press, 2004. 67-68. | 1 | |||
| Lilly, John | LSD, Ketamine | 2 | ||||
| Limbaugh, Rush | Opiates | 2 | ||||
| Lincoln, Abraham | Cannabis | rumor is that a quote by Lincoln appeared on a Hohner harmonica box saying that he smoked "hemp cigarettes". There is no evidence to support this and we believe the rumor to be false. | 5 | |||
| Love, Courtney | Heroin | LINK | 2 | |||
| Luce, Henry | Mushrooms | founder of Time magazine | letters in the Wasson archive at Harvard show both Henry and Clare Booth Luce took mushrooms with Wasson. | 2 | ||
| Lugosi, Bela | Opium, Morphine | LINK | 3 | |||
| Heroin | LINK | 2 | ||||
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| Madison, James | Cannabis (Hemp) | Rumored to have smoked hemp, but we have seen little evidence. | Conrad Chris. Hemp: Lifeline to the Future. 1994 | LINK | 4 | |
| Marley, Bob | Cannabis | 2 | ||||
| Marquat, Judge | Cannabis | LINK | 0 | |||
| McCarthy, Joseph | Opium | LINK | 0 | |||
| McCartney, Paul | Heroin, Cocaine, Cannabis, LSD | CNN.com. "McCartney tried heroin, preferred cocaine". Jun 2, 2004. | LINK | 1 | ||
| Mushrooms | 3 | |||||
| McKenna, Terence | Mushrooms, DMT, Cannabis | 2 | ||||
| Mirren, Helen | LSD | reported taking acid in her 20s | LINK | 1 | ||
| Mitchell, Joni | Cannabis | LINK | 0 | |||
| Mitchell, Wier | Peyote | LINK | 0 | |||
| Mohammed | Hashish | LINK | 0 | |||
| Monroe, James | Cannabis (Hemp) | Rumored to have smoked hemp, but we have seen little evidence. | Conrad Chris. Hemp: Lifeline to the Future. 1994 | LINK | 4 | |
| Moore, Marcia | LSD, Cannabis, Ketamine | LINK | 2 | |||
| Morrison, Jim | LSD, Mescaline, Cannabis, Cocaine | died under the influence of heroin and possibly cocaine. | 2 | |||
| Mothers of Invention | Cannabis, LSD | LINK | 0 | |||
| Mullis, Kary | LSD | Nobel prize winner in chemistry | LINK | 2 | ||
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| Nader, Ralph | Cannabis | 2 | ||||
| Nelson, Willie | Cannabis | 0 | ||||
| Nicholson, Jack | Cannabis, LSD | LINK (2) | 0 | |||
| Nicks, Stevie | Cocaine | LINK | 0 | |||
| Nightingale, Florence | Opium | 0 | ||||
| Nin, Anais | LSD | LINK | 2 | |||
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| Ouspenski, Peter | Nitrous | Wallechinsky et al. The Book of Lists. | 2 | |||
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| Paracelsus, Philippus Aureolus | Opium | LINK | 0 | |||
| Parker, Charlie | Heroin, Amphetamine | LINK | 2 | |||
| Phoenix, River | Cocaine, Heroin | died under the influence of cocaine & heroin | LINK | 2 | ||
| Picasso, Pablo | Opium | LINK | 2 | |||
| Pierce, Franklin | Cannabis (Hemp) | Rumored to have smoked hemp, but we have seen little evidence. | Conrad Chris. Hemp: Lifeline to the Future. 1994 | LINK | 4 | |
| Pilatus, Rob | ?? | member of Milli Vanilli | died under the influence | 3 | ||
| Plotinus | Opium | LINK | 0 | |||
| Poe, Edgar Allen | Opium | LINK | 0 | |||
| Pope Leo XIII | Coca Wine | High Times Encyclopedia of Recreational Drugs. Stonehill, 1978. | 1 | |||
| Porter, Cole | Cocaine | LINK | 0 | |||
| Presley, Elvis | Cocaine, Prescription Drugs | died under the influence. | LINK | 0 | ||
| Prince Harry | Cannabis | 2002 | 2 | |||
| Pryor, Richard | Cocaine | LINK | 0 | |||
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| Queen Victoria | Opium, Cannabis, Coca Wine, Chloroform | Chloroform reference in Sisters of the Extreme pg 36 | 3 | |||
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| Rather, Dan | LSD, Heroin | Lady's Home Journal. July 1980. | 0 | |||
| Rehnquist, William | Placidyl | Slate.com reports Rehnquist consumed "great quantities of the potent sedative-hypnotic Placidyl" from 1972 until 1981. | Shafer J. "Rehnquist's Drug Habit". Slate.com. Jan 5 2007. Accessed: Jan 10, 2007 | LINK | 0 | |
| Richards, Keith | Heroin | LINK | 2 | |||
| de Richelieu, Cardinal Duc | Opium | LINK | 0 | |||
| Rimbaud, Arthur | Absinthe | LINK | 2 | |||
| Roget, Peter Mark | Nitrous | Wallechinsky et al. The Book of Lists. | 2 | |||
| The Rolling Stones | LSD, Cannabis | 2 | ||||
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| Sagan, Carl | Cannabis | Daily cannabis smoker | Andrews S. "Sagan Smoked Marijuana." Washington Post. Aug 21, 1999. | LINK | 2 | |
| Sartre, Jean-Paul | amphetamines, mescaline | De Beauvoir reports Sartre used amphetamines for over 20 years. He tried mescaline in Feb, 1935. | de Beauvoir S. The prime of life. Harper & Row; 1976. | 2 | ||
| Scott, Sir Walter | Opium | LINK | 0 | |||
| Shakespeare, William | Cannabis | Media reports in 2001 suggested that a pipe containing residue from cannabis was found near Shakespeare's home in Britain. There is no evidence to link this to Shakespeare himself. | 5 | |||
| Shelly, Percy | Opium | LINK | 2 | |||
| Sklar-Weinstein, Arlene | LSD | LINK | 0 | |||
| Smith, Huston | Psilocybin | 2 | ||||
| Southey, Robert | Nitrous | Wallechinsky et al. The Book of Lists. | 2 | |||
| Star, Ringo | LSD, Mushrooms, Cannabis | 0 | ||||
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | Cocaine, Morphine | Wrote Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde during a six day cocaine binge. | LINK | 0 | ||
| Sting | Ayahuasca, Mushrooms | 2 | ||||
| Ecstasy | LINK | 2 | ||||
| Stravinsky | LSD ?? | Oscar Janigar's Files | 2 | |||
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| Taylor, Desmond | Cocaine | LINK | 0 | |||
| Taylor, Zachary | Cannabis (Hemp) | Rumored to have smoked hemp, but we have seen little evidence. | Conrad Chris. Hemp: Lifeline to the Future. 1994 | LINK | 4 | |
| Thompson, Hunter S. | Cannabis. | Claimed in fictionalized autobiography to have used LSD, mescaline, cocaine, ether, numerous others. | Thompson, HS. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. 1971 | LINK | 4 | |
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| Van Gogh, Vincent | Absinthe | LINK | 1 | |||
| Camphor | LINK | 3 | ||||
| Ventura, Jesse | Cannabis | 2 | ||||
| Verlaine, Paul Marie | Absinthe | LINK | 1 | |||
| Verne, Jules | Coca Wine | His image was used in advertising for Vin Mariani | High Times Encyclopedia of Recreational Drugs.. Stonehill, 1978. Musto, David. The American Experience with Stimulants and Opiates. 1998. |
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| Warwick, Dionne | Cannabis | Arrested for having 11 joints in her suitcase at the Miami airport. | CNN.com. "Dionne Warwick arrested for pot possession." May 12, 2002. | LINK | 1 | |
| Washington, George | Cannabis (Hemp) | Is known to have grown hemp. We have seen little evidence that he smoked it. | Conrad Chris. Hemp: Lifeline to the Future. 1994 | LINK | 4 | |
| Wasson, R. Gordon | Mushrooms | Wasson RG. "Seeking the Magic Mushroom." Life Magazine. May 13, 1957. | 1 | |||
| Watts, Allen | LSD, Cannabis, Mushrooms, Psilocybin, DMT, Mescaline | 2 | ||||
| Wedgwood, Thomas | Nitrous | Wallechinsky et al. The Book of Lists. | 2 | |||
| Weil, Andrew | Cannabis | 2 | ||||
| Peyote | 0 | |||||
| MDA | 2 | |||||
| Mushrooms | Mushroom Hunting, J Psych Drugs, 1975 | Link | 1 | |||
| Wilberforce, William | Opium | LINK | 2 | |||
| Williams, Montel | Cannabis | Medical use for Multiple Sclerosis | Montel Williams Show, Jan 13, 2004 | 1 | ||
| Wilson, Bill | LSD | Betty Eisner Interview | 2 | |||
| Psilocybin | 2 | |||||
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| Yeats, WB | Hashish | LINK | 3 | |||
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| Zola, Emile | Coca Wine | High Times Encyclopedia of Recreational Drugs. Stonehill, 1978. | 0 | |||
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