LSD, the mind-altering drug that had its heyday in the late 1960s, is becoming the drug of choice for some people who weren't even born then. Suncoast police agencies report a steady increase ...

In contrast to today, when psychedelics are imagined to be medicines, party favors, or Indigenous sacraments, many LSD users in the 1960s imagined their favorite substance as a kind of media.

In the 1960s and 1970s, many musicians experimented with LSD and other psychedelics, including the Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, and the Beatles, often integrating the experience into their music.

From the mid-1960s, the controversy over increasing non-medical use of LSD grew to a fever pitch, and the drug was increasingly criminalized through legislation passed between 1965 and 1970.

CCHR says that the mainstream use of LSD in psychiatric practice should not be allowed to proceed and that psychiatrists of West’s ilk should never again be permitted to conduct mind-control ...

Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered the hallucinogenic drug LSD, has died aged 102, the organisation that republished his book on the mind-altering substance said.

Last year, the 65-year-old Cleveland resident heard about Cleveland Clinic Lutheran Hospital’s first psychedelic trial using LSD, a hallucinogen used recreationally in the 1960s, for people with ...

The Trip showcases LSD's impact on a heartbroken man, exploring 1960s counterculture and influencing the New Hollywood era. The film's success led to the creation of Easy Rider, reflecting the ...

By the 1960s, LSD started popping up on university campuses around America. Word spread and it became popular with everyone from hippies to Hollywood stars, often taken in uncontrolled settings.

The Beatles were one thread in a larger tapestry of societal change. They didn’t invent LSD. They were merely one of the thousands of people who started trying it recreationally in the mid-1960s.

During the 1960s and early 1970s, psychedelic drugs and marijuana surged in popularity and their influence was evident in the music being created then.