CIA Sued Over 1950s ‘Murder’ of Government Scientist Plied With LSD
Frank Olsen's family claim CIA threw him from a hotel window and covered up his death after he witnessed torture by agency operatives in Europe.
Browsing: LSD
‘The Substance’ Review
CANNABIS CULTURE - It’s a tough job making a film about drugs in 2012. Over the last half century no substance has been more idealized or demonized than LSD. It’s been associated with everything from ‘delivering God in a capsule’ to destroying the fabric of Western society. Spend a little time researching LSD and you’ll find that very few people sit on the fence when it comes to this immensely powerful and influential hallucinogen.
Surprise! The Media Doesn’t Understand Why People Take LSD
In medical practice, the term "drug abuse" is typically understood to describe habitual consumption with harmful consequences to the user.
Apple Genius Steve Jobs Was an Acid Freak
Steve Jobs died this week after fighting a long battle with cancer. The technological visionary who founded Apple and brought us the personal computer and the iPod was called a hippy by his close friends, and reportedly said taking LSD was "one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life".
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey’s Search for a Kool Place
CANNABIS CULTURE - Behind the scenes at The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests: footage from Ken Kesey’s wild ride on the magic bus has finally been released as a documentary film from Magnolia Pictures.
Why Prescription Ecstasy or LSD Could Happen Much Sooner Than You Think
If a growing phalanx of scientists get their way, prescriptions for psychedelic drugs could be yours within 10 years.
Can Psychedelics Make You Happier?
A raft of potentially therapeutic pharmaceuticals got left on the shelf in the backlash against the 1960s recreational drug explosion.
Owsley Stanley, Artisan of Acid, Is Dead at 76
Owsley Stanley, the prodigiously gifted applied chemist to the stars, who made LSD in quantity for the Grateful Dead, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Ken Kesey and other avatars of the psychedelic ;60s, died on Sunday in a car accident in Australia. He was 76 and lived in the bush near Cairns, in the Australian state of Queensland.
Ralph Metzner: A Father of Psychedelic Culture
CANNABIS CULTURE - A review of the book Birth of a Psychedelic Culture and an interview with its author, LSD researcher Dr. Ralph Metzner.
What’s Missing from Lois Wilson’s Hallmark Biography (and Our Culture)
CANNABIS CULTURE - Marijuana and psychedelics have played a more significant role in helping alcoholics beat addiction than Hallmark History allows.
