Ginsberg, Allen

Burroughs, William, and Allen Ginsberg. The Yage Letters. San Francisco City Lights,... 

A few famous proponents of LSD during this time period included author Ken Kesey, author and philosopher Aldous Huxley, poet Allen Ginsberg, and The Beatles, a famous musical group. 

From left, Bonnie Golightly, Ram Dass (Richard Alpert), Allen Ginsberg, Albert Hofmann and Ralph Metzner gathered for a colloquium entitled "LSD—A Generation Later at the University of California, Santa Cruz in October 1977. More than 4,000 people came to hear Dr. Hofmann s talk. 

Here s what Allen Ginsberg had to say when Playboy magazine asked what LSD does ... 

Allen Ginsberg, "turned on to LSD by the U.S. Army, became the poet laureate of the psychedelic movement. 

The poet Allen Ginsberg, who first smoked pot in 1948, appeared at one of LeMar s earliest demonstrations to legalize marijuana—February 1965, outside the Women s House of Detention in Manhattan. 

Leary was sentenced to prison on drug charges in 1971, but escaped and fled to Switzerland. In 1974, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency recaptured him. While imprisoned, Leary continued to write about LSD and the counterculture. When he died of prostate cancer at the age of 76 in 1996, he had written more than 27 books and 250 articles. American poet Allen Ginsberg called Leary "a hero of American consciousness."... 

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