1. Garrick Liang Steven Liem Eddie Lin Alex Liu

2. Causes for Drug Use  Pleasure  Inspiration Psychedelic  Scare tactics created by parents and government did not work It actually led to the spread of drug usage

3. Demographics  Hippies Smoked copious amounts of marijuana  Teenagers The number of drug users from the 1960s to the 1970s doubled  LSD was used by musicians and authors to obtain a spiritual experience

4. LSD  Psychiatrists who worked with drugs (LSD) sampled some and liked it  Eventually, the drug spread to authors and Aldous Huxley coined the term “psychedelic” to describe LSD’s effects.  LSD was used to see things in a new light

5. Notice that LSD usage spiked in the 1960s

6. Marijuana  Started as a recreational drug used for pleasure  Musician Bob Marley was known to be high on marijuana while making music.

7. Key Figures  Timothy Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996)  A highly influential American psychologist and writer that strongly advocated trying LSD claiming that its potential within the field of psychology was boundless and its emotional, spiritual, and therapeutic benefits were undeniable.

8. More influential People  The Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane and The Beatles: Psychedelic rock musicians who promoted parts of it in the subculture.

9. Key Events  CIA: In its MK ULTRA project, the CIA tested the effect of LSD as well as other psychedelic drugs on volunteers called the Merry Pranksters.

10. More Key Figures  Ken Keasey (September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001):  He was one of the Merry Pranksters that participated in the LSD trials of the CIA.  He wrote numerous accounts on his experience and popularized almost all the drugs of the time. Wrote the book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest about his time in the hospital.

11. Ken Keasey

12. Key Events  The MK Ultra project conducted by the CIA  The Woodstock Festival had a lot of drugged participants, marijuana and LSD were pervasive during the event  The iconoclast Beatles wrote about their fascination with drugs  Jimmy Hendrix’s “Purple Haze” is about marijuana  “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,” by the Beatles, is about LSD

13.  A preacher of the use of LSD, named Ken Keasey traveled around the US in a psychedelic bus, giving LSD to anyone and everyone who would take it  Claimed to find “revelation within” and “put in touch with surroundings”