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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
He attended Woodstock. There he saw festivalgoers partake in LSD, hashish, marijuana and red wine. He did not see anyone use harder drugs, such as heroin and cocaine.Seated on a patch of grass not far from the stage, Weisner and his friends took several doses of Orange Sunshine, a strong type of LSD, during performances.“Drug use was ubiquitous,” Weisner told DrugRehab.com. “Everyone was tripping, smoking pot or drinking.”Jimi Hendrix closed the show. One of the most renowned guitarists in music history, he performed “Purple Haze,” “Voodoo Child” and a solo rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner.” Weisner called Hendrix’s set unequaled when compared with other performers.But, like many artists of his time, Hendrix’s health was damaged by drug abuse. In 1970, the guitarist admitted to having used marijuana, LSD and cocaine in the past. Later that year, he died of complications from barbiturate overdose.After a decline in cocaine use from the 1940s to the 1960s, snorting cocaine became more widespread in the 1970s. Musicians would use the stimulant at parties, during recording sessions or backstage before concerts.A number of musicians abused the drug because of its euphoric properties. Cocaine can cause extreme happiness, mental alertness and energy. However, it can also lead to increased body temperature, restlessness and overdose.Some of the era’s most popular musicians, from Sly Stone to Ozzy Osbourne, were cocaine users. According to one account, Osbourne’s band Black Sabbath spent $75,000 on cocaine in 1972 and had copious amounts of the drug flown in by private airplane.Studio 54: A Cocaine-Fueled Disco ClubIn April 1977, Studio 54 opened on West 54th St. in New York City. Frequented by celebrities such as Cher and Michael Jackson, the strobe-lit dance club was the epicenter of extravagant parties for 33 months.Cocaine was a popular drug of choice among patrons. The cocaine-snorting moon structure that rose above the dance floor was a symbolic representation of the drug’s pervasiveness at the club.Mark Fleischman, former owner of the venue, released a memoir in 2014 detailing the escapades at Studio 54. He wrote that celebrities would congregate in his office and snort up to 40 lines of cocaine.“Cocaine was a positive thing. It had no side effects. Or so we thought,” Kevin Haley, a Hollywood decorator who attended Studio 54, told Vanity Fair.Then in the early 1980s, thanks to a surplus of powder cocaine, crack cocaine was developed and became an epidemic in the United
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