Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Housewife’s LSD trip, 1956: Harvard Psychedelic Club

From Good Shit:



Author Don Lattin posts this wonderful archival video clip, and explains:

Here’s some rare footage of an experimental LSD session that I came across doing research for my next book, a group biography of British writer Aldous Huxley, philosopher Gerald Heard, and Bill Wilson, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. It’s from a television program, circa 1956, about mental health issues. The researcher, Dr. Sidney Cohen, was dosing volunteers at the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Los Angeles

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