Posts Tagged with "Leary"

“Born Illegal”: Shulgin, Anthony Reed, and 2C-I

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

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Anyone who’s read Life After Death for Beginners knows how complicated I think the relationship is between psychedelic compounds, homo sapiens’ taste for consciousness-expanding, and the US Government. Neither the conventional view of drugs as unmitigated evil, nor the countercultural belief that use of them is a human right, addresses the fact that since 1950 [...]

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Fri Doc: Timothy Leary, the Man Who Turned On America

Friday, March 5, 2010

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Fri Doc: Timothy Leary, the Man Who Turned On America

This Friday’s documentary, originally aired by the BBC in the late 90s (?), tells the strange, dramatic, and ultimately quite sad story of acid guru Timothy Leary. The question with Leary—and perhaps with all such larger-than-life characters—is this: what was behind the surface we all saw? What was inside him? What made him different from [...]

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