The Role Of LSD In The 1960s

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The people who were questioning society and the government needed to find a new light to look upon things due to the problems that arose during the 60s, like the JFK assassination. Drug use was portrayed as hip rather than destructive. Their solution was to explore different types of drugs. In the early 60's new methods of producing drugs became cheaper and therefore more prominent. The most common was LSD, a chemical discovered in 1943 by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann. LSD let people look at things with the different angle their psychedelic trance allowed them. LSD was originally available in tablet form, but once it was declared illegal they started looking for new ways to use it such as; liquid acid, via oral, in the eyeball, or mucous

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