Rants N’ Jibes

Albert Hoffman is a swiss chemist. He invented the hallucinogenic drug LSD. He died of a heart attack at his Basel home at the age of 102.

He first produced LSD in 1938 while researching the medicinal properties of a plant fungus (ergot fungus). He ingested some of it by accident and felt its hallucinogenic effects. On which, he commented saying “Everything I saw was distorted as in a warped mirror”. It was soon used as a common street drug by 1960. LSD is not addictive which makes it very different from other drugs.

The continued abuse of this drug forced countries to make it illegal. LSD is claimed by many researchers to be aiding as a psychotherapeutic drug. However, none of these claims have been officially accepted and this still remains a schedule 1 drug with no medical use.

Sean Levert (brother of Gerald Levert) was found dead in his jail cell over the weekend. Sean Levert, son of O’Jays lead singer Eddie Levert, was found dead in a Cleveland, Ohio, jail over the weekend, sources said.

Sean Levert, 39, was sent to jail last week for failing to pay about $80,000 in child support. The coroner in Cleveland said that he died after a medical emergency in jail and an autopsy will be done to determine the cause of death. He was a member of the R&B group LeVert with his late brother Gerald Levert and Marc Gordon. Gerald Levert died Nov. 10, 2006 at the age of 40.

Sean Levert, Gerald and Marc Gordon made up the music group Levert, which hit it big in the late 1980s with its popular song “Casanova”.
Sean Levert appeared in the movies Dope Case Pending (2000) and New Jack City (1991).

Richard Widmark, one of the greatest actors ever died at a ripe age of 93. His exceptionally good style was as famous as ever. Some of his great movies include “Coma” (murderous hospital administrator), “Against All Odds” (lethal L.A. power broker).The movies “Pickup on South Street” and Jules Dassin’s “Night and the City” are also greatly commendable.