Bill Gates Reflects On LSD, Cannabis, Risk-Taking And Influence Of Paul Allen And Jimi Hendrix
In his debut memoir “Source Code,” which hit the bookshelves on Feb. 4, Bill Gates shared several stories about his teenage experiences with cannabis, alcohol and LSD. He smoked weed in high school to “look cool” and impress the girls. “It didn’t work out,” he said, “but I tried.”
Gates laid the blame for the LSD trips, of which there were at least a half-dozen, and his cannabis consumption on his best friend, the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and Jimi Hendrix.
“Everything I did, I’m blaming it on him and Jimi Hendrix,” Gates told People Magazine.
The Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) founder said Allen introduced him to “sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll” and apparently Jimi Hendrix provided the soundtrack.
“He was far more well-versed than I was in all three, which is to say that I hadn’t tried the first two and knew …