LSD (Drug)

  • Eldridge Cleaver on the drug culture

    Eldridge Cleaver speaks about the drug culture in the United States and about Timothy Leary. Announcement about the Cleaver’s relationship with the Black Panther Party and Timothy Leary and his wife. Commentary on Timothy Leary as a “secular god who the revolutionary movement in the United States revolves around.” Cleaver says Leary is wedded to…

  • One billion seconds later: the social history of LSD-25 (Part 1 of 2)

    This is the first half of a documentary on the hallucinogenic drug LSD, from its discovery at Sandoz Laboratories in 1943, through the halls of academe, to Golden Gate Park and beyond, told with the help of Michael Horowitz, director of the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library. Albert Hofmann, Timothy Leary, Baba Ram Dass (Richard…

  • One billion seconds later: the social history of LSD-25 (Part 2 of 2)

    The second half of the documentary on the history and uses of Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Voices heard in this documentary include Albert Hofmann, Timothy Leary, Baba Ram Dass (Richard Alpert), Ken Kesey, John Lilly, Frederick Meyers, and Huston Smith. Produced by Adi Gevins; engineering by Stan Johnston, Lois Hanson, Andres Alegria; historical narrative written…