The use of psychedelic agents in Western therapy began in the 1950s, after the widespread distribution of LSD to researchers by its manufacturer, Sandoz Laboratories.

This was particularly true in San Francisco, due in part to the first major underground LSD factory, established there by Owsley Stanley.

* Owsley Stanley, LSD advocate, attended the military academy

The band is said to have been named after a street brand of LSD and promoted by renowned LSD chemist and former Grateful Dead patron, Owsley Stanley.

Sound engineer ( and infamous LSD chemist ) Owsley Stanley regularly recorded concerts at major San Francisco venues during this period, and his archive includes many QMS live performances from 1966 – 67, which were released on his Bear Recordings label in 2008-2009.

" Underground chemist " Owsley Stanley provided massive amounts of his " White Lightning " LSD, specially produced for the event, to the gathered masses.

* Owsley Stanley ( 1935 – 2011 ), also known as Owsley or Bear, " underground " LSD chemist and early Grateful Dead soundman

* Augustus Stanley, 1889 ; 38th Governor of Kentucky ; Grandfather of famous LSD chemist Owsley Stanley

Owsley associated with other early LSD producers, Tim Scully and Nicholas Sand.

* Purple Haze, a large run of high quality LSD produced in 1966 by Owsley Stanley

#* Inspired by an autumn 1966 newspaper headline (" LSD Millionaire ") about the Dead's benefactor and soundman Owsley Stanley.

From 1964, the Merry Pranksters, a loose group that developed around novelist Ken Kesey, sponsored the Acid Tests, a series of events based around the taking of LSD ( supplied by Stanley ), accompanied by light shows, film projection and discordant, improvised music known as the psychedelic symphony.

In 1964, Fellini experimented with LSD 25 under the supervision of Emilio Servadio, his psychoanalyst during production of La strada.

In an interview with Frederick Chapman, a Harvard graduate and Fulbright scholar who met Baba during a year of study in India, Baba stated that LSD is " harmful physically, mentally and spiritually ", and warned that " the continued use of LSD leads to madness or death.

Among Olson's concerns were the development of assassination materials used by the CIA, the CIA's use of biological warfare materials in covert operations, experimentation with biological weapons in populated areas, collaboration with former Nazi scientists under Operation Paperclip, LSD mind-control research, the use of biological weapons ( including anthrax ) during the Korean War, and the use of psychoactive drugs during " terminal " interrogations under a program code-named Project ARTICHOKE.

The Merry Pranksters were known for using marijuana, amphetamines, and LSD, and during their journey they " turned on " many people to these drugs.

It is during dinner that Mel discovers that Richard and Mary had to let Mel be adopted because they were in jail for making and distributing LSD in the late 1960s.

Lennon's marriage with Cynthia Powell was failing, and he was using increasing quantities of drugs, especially the powerful psychedelic LSD, as well as cannabis, which he had smoked during his time in Spain.

Psychochemical weapons are psychoactive drugs, such as BZ, LSD, Kolokol-1, EA-3167, and methamphetamine designed to have a disorienting effect when used during combat or interrogation.

It has been reported that Luce, during the 1960s tried LSD and reported that he had talked to God under its influence.

The British pound derived from the Roman libra, which is why the pound ( mass ) is often initialised to ' lb '; along with the French livre and the Italian lira, when, during Middle Ages the European countries adopted the LSD system.

For a while during his teens Chapman regularly smoked marijuana and ingested LSD.

In conjunction with the claim brought before the courts by the war children in 1999, a motion was filed in September 2000 to national headlines alleging 10 war children had unknowingly and involuntarily been subjected to medical experiments with LSD during the 1950s and 1960s.

The strobe light was popularized on the club scene during the 1960s when it was used to reproduce and enhance the effects of LSD trips.

He served as a war correspondent during the 1960s in Vietnam and Biafra, and gained a reputation for risk-taking when he took LSD in 1966 as an experiment for an article in The London Evening Standard and had a bad trip ".. this drug needs police, the Home Office and a dictator to stamp it out ..."

A structure designed by LSD is proportioned to sustain all actions likely to occur during its design life, and to remain fit for use, with an appropriate level of reliability for each limit state.

While many users of lower doses of 2C-E have reported that the compound produces mainly closed-eye visuals, users of higher doses have compared its open-eye visuals with those produced by LSD ; a significant proportion of these comparisons have favored the visual effects of 2C-E in terms both of their geometric complexity and in the variety of colors seen during an experience.

This causes an expanding shock wave which absorbs laser energy at the shock front ( a laser sustained detonation wave or LSD wave ); expansion of the hot plasma behind the shock front during and after the pulse transmits momentum to the craft.

Lysergic acid diethylamide was sometimes called “ pounds, shillings and pence ” during the 1960s, because of the abbreviation LSD.

* Adam Stern from Youth Brigade and Royal Crown Revue filled in for Fat Mike on bass ; Mark Mortenson from Screw 32 filled in for Dave Raun on drums ; Grant McIntire also from Screw 32 filled in for Joey Cape on Guitar ; and Barry d ' live Ward from Rich Kids on LSD and Crosstops filled in for Chris Shiflett on guitar during the 1996 Tour.

The Ramblers offense is seen, from behind, wearing nothing but helmets, during a scene in which a security guard is hallucinating due to the effects of LSD.

Written by band-members Brian Wilson ( who conceived the song during an LSD trip ) and Mike Love, the song features contrasting verse-chorus form.

After being introduced to cannabis by Dylan, members of The Beatles began experimenting with LSD in 1965.

The tradition of hippie music festivals began in the United States in 1965 with Ken Kesey's Acid Tests, where the Grateful Dead played tripping on LSD and initiated psychedelic jamming.

Sandoz halted LSD production in August 1965 after growing governmental protests at its proliferation among the general populace.

Ken Kesey was also said to have experimented with LSD with Ringo Starr in 1965 and in fact influenced the set up for his future performances with The Beatles in the UK.

In 1965, Sandoz laboratories stopped its still legal shipments of LSD to the United States for research and psychiatric use, after a request from the U. S. government concerned about its use.

On March 27, 1965, Beatles John Lennon and George Harrison ( and their wives ) were dosed with LSD without their permission by their dentist, Dr. John Riley.

On August 24, 1965 The Beatles except Paul McCartney, took their second trip on LSD.

After restricting its manufacture and distribution in 1965, the US government fully criminalized LSD in 1968, after which the European nations which hosted psychedelic research followed suit.

Lennon described it as " an ' acidy ' song " with lyrics inspired by actor Peter Fonda's comments during an LSD trip in 1965 with members of The Beatles and The Byrds.

It was where Harrison, Lennon and their wives retreated during their first LSD experience in 1965, and in May 1968 it was where many of the demo recordings for the White Album were made, on Harrison's Ampex four-track reel-to-reel tape recorder.