From The Other McCain - Fear and Loathing at Mar-a-Lago? Freaky Friday Flashback to ‘Big Ed’ Muskie
Hunter S. Thompson brought up Ibogaine in relation to the 1972 Campaign of Ed Muskie.
For reasons that were never adequately explained at the time, and which seem ridiculous in hindsight, the media pundits and Democratic Party power brokers decided in advance of the 1972 campaign that Muskie was the front-runner, the man to beat. Thompson had other ideas.
Strange coincidence that Thompson, working for Rolling Stone, was covering George McGovern at the start of the campaign.
The very idea of Rolling Stone sending a correspondent to cover the presidential campaign was weird, at the time, and Thompson’s eccentricities were notorious enough that his hunch about McGovern’s chances didn’t get much credit from other reporters on the campaign trail, and yet in the end he was vindicated — especially in regard to his contempt for the “mainstream” consensus front-runner Ed Muskie.
That is (some of) the background. Click thru for more and the news from today.
There is apparently some use of Ibogaine to treat PTSD. Whether it actually works or not is the issue. The Other McCain has the details.
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