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None of this comes as news to San Francisco fixture Mark McCloud.

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“Scientists are rediscovering what many see as the substances’ astonishing therapeutic potential.”

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Psilocybin, MDMA, and LSD “have been steadily making their way back into the lab,” notes Scientific American. “Once dismissed as the dangerous dalliances of the counterculture,” writes Nature, psychedelic drugs are “gaining mainstream acceptance” in clinical treatment. But it has since returned with newfound respectability. government, repressing what the government had itself helped bring into being. Whatever uses it might have had in psychiatric settings - and there were many known at the time - LSD was made illegal in 1968 by the U.S. Not long afterward, Grateful Dead soundman Owsley “Bear” Stanley synthesized “the purest form of LSD ever to hit the street,” writes Rolling Stone, and became the country’s biggest supplier, the “king of acid.” Kesey administered the drug in “Acid Tests” to find out who could handle it (and who couldn’t) after he stole the substance from Army doctors, who themselves administered it as part of the CIA’s MKUltra experiments. When Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters kicked off Haight-Ashbury’s counterculture in the 1960s, LSD was the key ingredient in their potent mix of drugs, the Hell’s Angels, the Beat poets, and their local band The Warlocks (soon to become The Grateful Dead).








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