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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... anley.html

"He left the military after 18 months and, having been mesmerised by a performance of the visiting Bolshoi company in 1958, studied ballet. He worked briefly as a professional dancer before returning to electronics, taking jobs in jet propulsion laboratories and at a television station. In 1963 he enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley, lasting only a year. Before leaving, however, he discovered the recipe for LSD in the Journal of Organic Chemistry in the university library. "

Only in the 60's...!!!

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LSD wasn't actually illegal in Califirnia until 1967. Cannabis was an imprisonable offence at the time. That is just one reason why Owsley's acid was so special and spread like a drop of rain in a piece of blotting paper.

For those into total nostalgia for The Grateful Dead and many of the things that happened as a (partial) consequence of Mr Owsley's experiments I strongly recommed Tom Wolfe's 'Electric Cool Aid Acid Trip' the story of the Merry Pranksters.
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The first track of 'Dick's Picks 4' - probably my favourite CD - begins with the words
"Hey Bear, turn on Mickey's microphone"

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... y-20110330

It's all receding into the past isn't it ?
Makes our game of constructing time machines even more valid :!:
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