The film is both hilarious and great whether you are on drugs or not; I've never touched a thing in my life, and Fear and Loathing is deffinatly up there in my top ten, if not five.

I've read Hells Angels by Dr. Thompson, which was excellent, and plan to move on to Fear and Loathing in it's written form very soon.

DV, check out IMDB's trivia. Some of it is pretty interesting, and they point out a few bizzarre occurances that you completely look beyond when viewing the film. (I.E. in the opening scene in Barstow, there is a dead body being stowed into an ambulance via stretcher, way off in the background.)

"Somebody told me when the bomb hits, everybody in a two mile radius will be instantly sublimated, but if you lay face down on the ground for some time, avoiding the residual ripples of heat, you might survive, permanently fucked up and twisted like you're always underwater refracted. But if you do go gas, there's nothing you can do if the air that was once you is mingled and mashed with the kicked up molecules of the enemy's former body. Big-kid-tested, motherf--ker approved."