Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) / quote 158 of 171
LSD and the Summer of Love
The decade’s radical movements that were influenced by LSD helped with the expansion of women’s and minority rights, with the most effective anti-war movement in American history, and with new genres of literature and music. The cultural, psychedelic, and geographical locus was San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. The high point59 of this movement was January 14, 1967’s “Human Be-In” featuring the controversial psychedelic professor Timothy Leary and the poet Allen Ginsberg in Golden Gate Park. This was followed by the Summer of Love, when the LSD-inspired psychedelic counter-culture achieved critical mass.