Editing LSD (section)

===Counterculture===
By the mid-1960s, the youth [[counterculture]]s in California, particularly in San Francisco, had widely adopted the use of hallucinogenic drugs, including LSD. The first major underground LSD factory was established by [[Owsley Stanley]].<ref name=DeRogatispp8-9>{{cite book |vauthors=DeRogatis J |title=Turn On Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock |location=Milwaukie, Michigan |publisher=Hal Leonard |date=2003 |isbn=0-634-05548-8 |pages=8–9}}</ref> Around this time, the [[Merry Pranksters]], associated with novelist [[Ken Kesey]], organized the [[Acid Tests]], events in San Francisco involving LSD consumption, accompanied by light shows and improvised music.<ref name=pc41>{{cite web |url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19800/m1/ |title=Show 41 – The Acid Test: Psychedelics and a sub-culture emerge in San Francisco. [Part 1&#93; : UNT Digital Library | vauthors = Gilliland J |year=1969 |author-link=John Gilliland |website=[[Pop Chronicles]] |publisher=Digital.library.unt.edu |format=audio |access-date=May 6, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111109144934/http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19800/m1/ |archive-date=November 9, 2011}}</ref><ref name=Hicks2000p60>{{cite book | vauthors = Hicks M | title = Sixties Rock: Garage, Psychedelic, and Other Satisfactions Music in American Life | location = Chicago, IL | publisher = University of Illinois Press | date = 2000 | isbn = 0-252-06915-3 | page = 60 }}</ref> Their activities, including cross-country trips in a psychedelically decorated bus and interactions with major figures of the beat movement, were later documented in [[Tom Wolfe]]'s ''[[The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test]]'' (1968).<ref name=Mann2009p87>{{cite book | vauthors = Mann J | title = Turn on and Tune in: Psychedelics, Narcotics and Euphoriants | publisher = Royal Society of Chemistry | date = 2009 | isbn = 978-1-84755-909-8 | page = 87 }}</ref>

In San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, the Psychedelic Shop was opened in January 1966 by brothers Ron and Jay Thelin to promote the safe use of LSD. This shop played a significant role in popularizing LSD in the area and establishing [[Haight-Ashbury]] as the epicenter of the hippie counterculture. The Thelins also organized the [[Love Pageant Rally]] in Golden Gate Park in October 1966, protesting against California's ban on LSD.<ref>{{Cite web|title=OBITUARY — Ron Thelin |url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/OBITUARY-Ron-Thelin-2989153.php |vauthors=Taylor M |date=1996-03-22 |website=SFGate |access-date=2020-05-13 |url-status=live |archive-date=August 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210828153344/https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/OBITUARY-Ron-Thelin-2989153.php}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Davis JC |title=The business of getting high: head shops, countercultural capitalism, and the marijuana legalization movement. |journal=The Sixties |date=January 2015 |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=27–49 |doi=10.1080/17541328.2015.1058480 |hdl=11603/7422 |s2cid=142795620 |hdl-access=free}}</ref>

A similar movement developed in London, led by British academic [[Michael Hollingshead]], who first tried LSD in America in 1961. After experiencing LSD and interacting with notable figures such as [[Aldous Huxley]], [[Timothy Leary]], and [[Richard Alpert]], Hollingshead played a key role in the famous LSD research at Millbrook before moving to New York City for his experiments. In 1965, he returned to the UK and founded the World Psychedelic Center in Chelsea, London.<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Conners P |title=White Hand Society - The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg |publisher=City Lights Books |year=2010 |isbn=9780872865358 |page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780872865358/page/148 148] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780872865358/page/148 }}</ref>