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Psychedelic Icons: Ken Kesey

Ken Kesey was the West Coast counterpart to Timothy Leary: both were drug fans who announced their enthusiasm for LSD in the years before the psychedelic heyday of the late 1960s. Kesey took LSD for the first time in 1959 when he studied Creative Writing at Stanford University. He volunteered for the CIA-supported experiments on hallucinogenic drugs at the Menlo Park Hospital. Kesey found the effects of LSD amazing, even in the sterile environme…
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Ken Kesey was the West Coast counterpart to Timothy Leary: both were drug fans who announced their enthusiasm for LSD in the years before the psychedelic heyday of the late 1960s. Kesey took LSD for the first time in 1959 when he studied Creative Writing at Stanford University. He volunteered for the CIA-supported experiments on hallucinogenic drugs at the Menlo Park Hospital. Kesey found the effects of LSD amazing, even in the sterile environme…

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lucys-magazin.com broke the news in on Friday, September 5, 2025.
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