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ACID DREAMS, THE COMPLETE SOCIAL HISTORY OF LSD:  THE CIA, THE SIXTIES, AND BEYOND

Ken Kesey first turned on to LSD through a government-funded drug program at Stanford. (UPI/Bettmann Newsphotos)

Kesey and the Pranksters hosted a series of acid tests on the West Coast.

Thousands "freaked freely" at the three-day Trips Festival in Francisco, January 1966. (Eugene Anthony)

Allen Ginsberg, poet laureate of the acid subculture, shown testifying at Senate hearings on drug abuse.  Ginsberg stated that there had been a "journalistic exaggeration" of the dangers of LSD. (AP/Wide World Photos)

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