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On October 6, 1966, the state of California declared LSD a controlled substance, which made the drug illegal.
In response to the criminalization of psychedelics, San Francisco hippies staged a gathering in the Golden Gate Park panhandle, called the Love Pageant Rally, attracting an estimated 700 – 800 people.
As explained by Allan Cohen, co-founder of the San Francisco Oracle, the purpose of the rally was twofold: to draw attention to the fact that LSD had just been made illegal — and to demonstrate that people who used LSD were not criminals, nor were they mentally ill.
According to Cohen, those who took LSD " were not guilty of using illegal substances ... We were celebrating transcendental consciousness, the beauty of the universe, the beauty of being.
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