Owsley Stanley obituary

Prolific LSD producer and supplier to the bands and stars of 1960s countercultureThe American psychologist Timothy Leary's famous invitation to "tune in, turn on and drop out" changed a generation. The key element was "turn on" and it was Owsley Stanley who provided the means to do just that. Stanley, who has died aged 76, produced millions of doses of "acid", the psychedelic drug LSD, which fuelled the 1967 Summer of Love in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, and spread around the world....

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