http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20040721p2a00m0dm006001c.htmlA British national has been arrested for smuggling 65 kilograms of hashish into Japan, Tokyo police and customs house said Wednesday.
Brian Dornan, 36, a jobless man, is accused of violating the Hemp Control Law. Police are grilling him, suspecting that he is connected to a large-scale drug smuggling organization.
Justice for Nick Baker...and oh by the way
McCartney: Of Course Those Songs Were About Drugs
Washington Post - Mind altering state inducing and drug dependence causing registration requiredHe confirmed that drugs influenced some of the group's songs. "A song like 'Got to Get You Into My Life,' that's directly about pot, although everyone missed it at the time," McCartney said. " 'Day Tripper,' that's one about acid. 'Lucy in the Sky,' that's pretty obvious. There's others that make subtle hints about drugs, but, you know, it's easy to overestimate the influence of drugs on the Beatles' music."
as opposed to
If John Lennon (and Pete Shotton) were both lying, they never let on to their friends and colleagues, because everyone close to the Beatles -- including Paul McCartney, George Martin, and Peter Brown -- tells the same story. Since John Lennon is unfortunately no longer around to contribute further to this narrative, we'll leave the final word on the subject to Paul McCartney:
This one is amazing. As I was saying before, when you write a song and you mean it one way, and then someone comes up and says something about it that you didn't think of -- you can't deny it. Like "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," people came up and said, very cunningly, "Right, I get it. L-S-D," and it was when all the papers were talking about LSD, but we never thought about it.
What happened was that John's son Julian did a drawing at school and brought it home, and he has a schoolmate called Lucy, and John said what's that, and he said, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" -- so we had a nice title.
You mean after all this 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' was really about LSD and the Lennon drawing story was just made up bullshit
Well I'm shocked, just shocked....
