How To Go Out of Your Mind: The LSD Crisis Trailer (1966)
""There is no free speech anymore. It's all bought and paid for.""28 August 1966Factual, TV Movie55 mins
Back in the 1960's a former Harvard professor stopped giving A's, B's and C's and started handing out LSD. his name was Timothy Leary and he was at the center of a controversy in North America over the growing use of psychedelic drugs. Leary ran a research center in New York state where young people took 'acid' while he took notes. The media took notice.
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