Famous Nitrous Users

Hello everybody,

I promised to send out this list I have, with well known people, using n2o (nitrous oxide) as a drug. I am sorry, but this list is somewhat Anglo-saxon-oriented, but what can you expect? The original list was published in 'The book of lists' by Wallechinsky et al. And it gives also lists of famous people using cocaine, hash, morfine, LSD, mescaline heroine and opium. If anyone is interested, well, let me know or buy the book. It is a bit old, but still as interesting as an old 'Guiness book of records'.

Thomas Wedgwood, 1771-1805, English Physicist
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, English Poet
Robert Southey, 1774-1843, English Poet
Humphrey Davy, 1778-1829, English Chemist
Peter Mark Roget, 1779-1889, Author of 'Roget's Thesaurus'
Samuel Colt, 1814-1862, American Inventor of the Colt .45 revolver
William James, 1842-1910, American Philosopher
Theodore Dreiser, 1871-1945, American Writer and Journalist
Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, English Politician (...)
Peter Ouspenski, 1878-1947, Russian descipel of Gurdjieff
Allen Ginsberg, 1926-1997, American Poet
Gregori Corso, 1930-, American Poet
Ken Kesey, 1965-, American Writer

Well, that's it. Be happy with it and I am not responsible for any mistakes, that has been made by the authors of the Book of Lists.

Jan R. Pels
Delft University of Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering
Julianalaan 136, 2628 BL Delft, The Netherlands
telephone: +31 (15) 784356, telefax: +31 (15) 784452

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