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Did the Merry Pranksters spike people with LSD?

Did the Merry Pranksters spike people with LSD?

The Sixties psychedelic counterculture was not big on the whole 'informed consent' thing

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Dec 22, 2022
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A woman having a bad trip in 1996, captured by Lawrence Schiller, who photographed the Pranksters early party. She told Schiller: ‘I experienced the desire to die, but not actual death…very strongly the desire to rip my skin off and pull my hair out and pull my face off.’

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