Who Were the Merry Pranksters?

The Merry Pranksters (the funny Schelme) was a group of LSD adventurers who had a significant influence on the psychedelic culture and the emergence of the hippie movement. At the same time as Timothy Leary and his friends experimented with LSD at his estate in Millbrook, New York, the Merry Pranksters founded their own psychedelic community on the other side of the country. The Californian Pranksters had a completely different lifestyle than th…