Who Turned on Whom From Dr. Albert Hofmann to You How Western Civilization Got High Again, One Head at a Time by PETER STAFFORD AND BRUCE EISNER First published in High Times Magazine, OCTOBER 1977 Republished in The High Times Reader, Nation Books, 2004 LSD often turns its users into “instant messiahs” with an urge to turn on friends, relatives, acquaintances, and perfect strangers. Marijuana, too, is a sort of friendship ambassador from the vegetable kingdom, telling us to declare peace on the world. And during the Forties and Fifties, as acid and grass slowly spread (Tom among an enlightened few to Read more »
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Timothy Leary’s Ultimate Trip — Leary Interviewed by Bruce Eisner
Timothy Leary's Ultimate Trip — an Interview –by Bruce EisnerThursday, June 08, 1995
Note: We humbly apologize for not crediting David Banton for his transcription of Ram Dass' “Brave World or Island?” published in the last Island Views. We thank David for the transcript that follows.
My car pulled up to the large ranch house on a cul-de-sac in the Beverly Hills neighborhood — a house that I have visited scores of times in the past 12 years — since Timothy Leary had moved there from Laurel Canyon in 1984. In the past year, Leary has put up a web site offering a Read more »
By Bruce Eisner
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Why We Get High April 16, 2004 - Interview with an Alchemist: Bear Owsley Interview August 28, 2004
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LSD and Aldous Huxley’s Island: Setting Sail for a Better Country February 9, 2006 -
LSD Purity — From High Times 1977 — Updated Graphics January 25, 2008
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Mystery of Time March 7, 2012 -
Albert Hofmann in America October 1988 January 29, 2012 -
Who Turned on Whom January 28, 2012 -
A Summer of New Beginnings August 30, 2011
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