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America's Drug War: Turn On Tune In Drop Out

BonusReleased Tuesday, 27th July 2021
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America's Drug War: Turn On Tune In Drop Out

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America's Drug War: Turn On Tune In Drop Out

America's Drug War: Turn On Tune In Drop Out

BonusTuesday, 27th July 2021
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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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