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Verrerogo 1 point ago +1 / -0

All true.

But Timothy Leary absolutely did call on the normal general public to drug itself. Before him, drugs were in the shadows.

You have not forgotten his famous statement, "Turn on, tune in, drop out."

Cut and paste:

"...is a counterculture-era phrase popularized by Timothy Leary in 1966. In 1967, Leary spoke at the Human Be-In, a gathering of 30,000 hippies in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and phrased the famous words, "Turn on, tune in, drop out".

That sure was not a call for medical research.

My friend who still feels the effects did not have BAD trips, they just keep coming back unbidden even now.

My dead friend, who knows.

That psychotic girl was at a minimally respectable party. Any other kind, she would not have been at. Hashish being present there was a result of the hippie drug culture, invented by Timothy Leary.

He wasn't the only one but he was Harvard. Nobody else was Harvard. Without his Harvard credentials, the whole thing might have stayed in the shadows.