Coffee: What's it all about and Where it's at Today

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This article below was written for a journal by Dr. Andrew Weil in his early stages of psychedelic development.

But first, here is an ad from one of my pulp fiction pulp magazines of the early 1900s.

This particular one is from 1904.

Since I cannot post more than six images in one thread, I have to post the others in a second post following this one.

First the 1904 Coffee alert ad.

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In the 1700s, coffee was banned in the UK as a drink used by rebels to stir up revolution. It was feared that when people had nothing better to do than sit around a table and drink coffee up all day long, it would eventually lead to discussions of sedition and how do we get rid of the Duke today kind of thoughts.

In the 1930s to the 1940s in America, Paris and San Francisco and New York's Village, Coffee houses became famous hangouts, as did Jazz bars and nite-clubs for beat poets, revolutionaries, Beatniks, Bohemians, and of course musicians, many who often, not only drank coffee, but by the 1950s were smoking marijuana and hashish and injecting DMT into their legs or smoking it mixed with mint leaves. So eventually, coffee houses became hangouts for societies dissidents, rabble rousers and of course the general topic of discussion ranged around the social ills permeated by their governments ideology for control of the State and its citizens. They became hangouts for hippies, poets and musicians, all who soon began to use LSD and that made new thoughts enter into their minds and it caused many of them to believe in changing the way their minds were and how things were and other drugs soon followed and became fashionable with the emerging change of times.

Of course Dylan's, "These Times They Are A'changing" soon became a battle call for peaceful revolution. Civil Rights, woman's rights, voting rights, Draft dodging' and war protests and these movements began in coffee houses around college campus' across the USA and also In Europe and the UK.

Coffee helped spread the seeds of revolution and the seeds of change in this country and throughout the world.

In fact, drinking coffee, led people to use other drugs, to alter their minds and their perception of time and space and to create within those who used them, a sense of purpose in changing the way they thought and and how they perceived their concept of what the world should really become.

I write this above from my study and living the life as a true short history of these events which lead to coffee's high prices today. Weil's article gave movement to the coffee growers to get better pay. If you notice, some Starbucks and other coffee chains in America, including Bulldog News in the Seattle U-District at one time actually had sings hanging on their walls which said the growers get money from the sale of the coffee in their restaurants and shops for buying their coffee their establishments

Glad I do not have that habit.

And now the first two pages of Coffee by Dr. Andrew Weil which first appeared in the Journal of Psychedelic Drugs. Later reprinted in 1980 in The Marriage of the Sun and the Moon.

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Next Three Pages Posted Below

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The next three pages of the article by Andrew Weil.

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Continued on Next Three Pages

[Anonymous]

Very excellent article! Thanks for posting Boomer!

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The last three pages of the article by Andrew Weil.

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Hope everyone enjoyed this article.

and have a shroomy day

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[Anonymous]

I enjoyed it very much! Thanks for posting!