Discussion: Timothy Leary, His Life and Legacy | North Beach

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The High Priest of LSD who coined the phrase “turn on, tune in, drop out” and was once described as “the most dangerous in America” according Pres. Nixon is the subject of an evening of discussion.

THAT should make for lively discussion, huh?

Half a century has passed since Timothy Leary, a clinical psychologist at Harvard University, swallowed a handful of magic mushrooms on his summer vacation in Mexico in August of 1960. Leary returned to Harvard that fall convinced that psychedelic drugs would revolutionize psychology and change the world.

At this special event, join Peter Conners, Don Lattin, and Nicholas Schou, three California authors with recent books on the psychedelic sixties will read from their works and discuss the legacy of the Timothy Leary.

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