This summer will be a special one for all Deadheads. All roads lead to San Francisco as the city marks the 60th anniversary ...

According to Robby Krieger, this is the best Doors song to listen to while tripping on acid, perfectly reflecting Jim ...

After the daring prison escape, the Learys fled to Algiers, where they stayed with the Black Panthers, who were also on the ...

They changed names before playing the San Jose gig at one of Ken Kesey’s “acid tests” where LSD was as much a part of the scene as the music and lights. The rest, as they say, is history.

Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey (author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest), and Robert Hunter (a songwriter associated with the Grateful Dead) were all documented research subjects.

Back in 1968 the story of Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters and their attempts to spread the gospel of LSD was not exactly breaking news – it had not, as the saying goes, been torn from the screaming ...

Yes, we are still talking about lysergic acid diethylamide — LSD, Acid, Blotter, Barrel, Blue Cheer . . . OK, that’ll do. Today we continue telling the story of how a small group of writers ...

Before we continue with our mind-opening discussion of LSD that we began last week, I want to give a shout out to Lentz’s Physical Therapy and Fitness Center in Mecosta, Michigan. First, I fi… ...

If you’re an old-head hippie, still fighting the good fight against the establishment, then you know all about Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters and their electric Kool-Aid bus trip across America.

It almost didn’t happen. That night, Ken Kesey and his friends the Merry Pranksters held an event called the Acid Test Graduation, which was originally supposed to feature the Dead. As the band ...

First developed in the 1940s, LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) was a powerful, if not completely understood, mind-altering drug. When Kesey was given LSD, it was the subject of numerous ongoing tests.

First developed in the 1940s, LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) was a powerful, if not completely understood, mind-altering drug. When Kesey was given LSD, it was the subject of numerous ongoing tests.