♪ >> ken keasey took classes of writing at stanford university, and he writes the great novel "one flewebrity. >> while i was at stanford, i was given the opportunity to go to the stanford hospital and take part in the lsd experiments. >> keasey had volunteered to do tests for lsd, a government-sponsored test. >> lsd was isolated in a pharmaceutical company in switzerland. >> are you happy? >> yes. >> you have tears in your eyes. >> oh. >> is that a beautiful experience would you say? >> i would say yes. >> some people think it's when keasey discovers lsd that the counterculture in california is born, because more and more people then want to try to experience what keasey experienced, and he becomes a promoter of it. ♪ >> keasey created a drug commune at la honda, which is an hour from san francisco. great artists love smashing traditions, and at his best, keasey was doing that. everybody would have this communal lsd trip together. tom wolf would write "the electric kool-aid acid test" about it. >> people were constantly slipping drugs into my food. i'd wonder what happened. they though