the fourth person in this movement for lsd was ken kesey. he can also be described as an oregon author and a political libertarian with anarchist tendencies. he was very proud of the fact that his ancestors had in pioneers in the west. he thought of himself as a rugged western pioneer. he had been in the creative writing program at stanford university. he worked at the nearby va hospital and eventually he too was put into the lsd experiment there. kesey in college was a champion wrestler in top physical condition and almost made the u.s. olympic team. he was an athlete. he was disciplined and self-willed. as a writer, he had a good vocabulary for description. unlike most users of lsd, he had retained a capacity of describing what was going on while he was stoned. he could, at times, even write while he was stoned, which no one else seemed to be able to do. the doctors at the va hospital were very fascinated with him as a test case. they never had anyone who was able to do this. after his first book, "one flew over the cuckoo's nest," which w

like huxley and ginsberg, kesey understood but rejected. he believed that a crackdown sd wasn't that -- was inevitable. he said you need to flood the country so fast with lsd that the authorities could not crack down on it. in 1965, he began to stages test -- to stage his acid test in san francisco. at the acid test, who were lured there by the music, the participants were given a chance to take lsd at the concert. the jefferson airplane showed up, their name stood for free trip. in 1965 and 1960 six the san francisco ban, the grateful dead, janis joplin, the big brother rose to prominence while lsd was no longer distributed for free. many arrived already stoned. lsd became rampant in the bay area and 1966 until the state of california and the u.s. government banned it in october of 1966. it remained available but riskier after that. you never knew about the safety of it. all of this would lead to the summer of love in san francisco in 1967. 50 years ago. about 75,000 young people, some of them high school students, some of them college stu

kesey and college was a champion wrestler and almost made the u.s. olympic.team team. he was disciplined and self-willed. as a writer yet a good vocabulary for description. d, hee most users of ls had a capacity of describing what was going on while he was stoned. you could at times even write while he was stoned, which noah nelson was able to do. the doctors at the va hospital were very fascinated with him as a test case. book, "one flew " whiche cuckoo's nest, was probably when under the lsd, he bought a house and begin to experiment on his own. kesey almost immediately grasp that if you will have a drug as powerful as lsd you need a music to go with it. he hires a musician, a young folksinger name jerry garcia who invented the music or it garcia tried classical music, did not work. jazz, did not work, full music, did not work. then he came up with rock. this is how jerry garcia ends up founding the grateful dead. it was experiments with mixing lsd and music together up at his house. -- huxley and innsbruck, sey understoodke but rejected. he said you need to flood th