"I like ayahuasca. And I liked LSD, and I liked peyote."
so oliver stone held a press conference for world trade center earlier this week in new york, and during the junket he was sipping psychedelic peruvian tea!
so here's stone, at the park regency, fielding questions on his 9/11 film and tripping the fuck out.
wikipedia says ayahuasca is a "brew containing a powerful hallucinogenic alkaloid." when i was in peru hiking, my guide told me a lot about these various psychedelic herbs and how you can have five-day trips just lying on the floor sweating and hallucinating. basically, from what i remember, what he said translates as "with these herbs you can really fuck yourself." the quechuan culture, however, respects the power of these herbs and they mostly are used for medicinal purposes--not press junkets.
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Good ol' Ollie...there are some great anecdotes from a book written by one of the Natural Born Killers producers (can't remember the name) about Stone and co. tripping hard while scouting locations for the film. They get pulled over by the cops and Stone gets all freaky paranoid. Good stuff.
For the purpose of clarification, the book was called "Killer Instinct" by Jane Hamsher, one of the film's producers.
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