Bonus - America's Drug War: Turn On Tune In Drop Out
In this public release of a bonus episode originally released on Patreon in December 2019, Jaye discusses the life of Dr. Timothy Leary, the "Godfather of LSD." How did someone so apolitical (in the height of an extremely political era!) make political enemies, and what made President Richard Nixon call him "the most dangerous man in America?"
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Source Links:
https://www.history.com/topics/crime/history-of-lsd
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-we-know-about-cias-midcentury-mind-control-project-180962836/
https://psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/timothy-leary
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/06/26/acid-redux
https://www.biography.com/scientist/timothy-leary
https://web.archive.org/web/20120509165407/
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/books/review/25sante.html?pagewanted=all
https://www.npr.org/2018/01/05/575392333/nixons-manhunt-for-the-high-priest-of-lsd-in-the-most-dangerous-man-in-america
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/president-richard-nixon-and-lsd-guru-timothy-leary-crazy-in-their-own-ways/2018/01/12/76220fa4-ebf2-11e7-b698-91d4e35920a3_story.html
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1966/3/12/leary-gets-30-years-on-marijuana/
https://weburbanist.com/2010/10/24/legend-of-a-mind-a-psychedelic-celebration-of-timothy-leary/
https://web.archive.org/web/20180217141920/https://boingboing.net/2017/08/30/interview-with-timothy-leary-a.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20180216204642/ http://www.nytimes.com/1974/09/19/archives/leary-scored-as-cop-informant-by-his-son-and-2-close-friends.html
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