In 1964, a Dutch librarian drilled a hole in his own skull to get permanently high

According to Bart Huges, the Dutch librarian attended medical school in Amsterdam "but was refused a degree due to his advocacy of marijuana use." In 1964 he published a scroll arguing that trepanation — drilling a hole in the skull — "could be used to enhance brain functionality by balancing the proportion of blood and cerebral spinal fluid." — Read the rest

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