What a trip! (Pun intended)

[onager]

Found hanging around on YouTube - from January 1967, the Dragnet episode: "The LSD Story"

A real classic, for us geezers as well as those too young to remember when LSD was going to be the basis of a New Religion. Well, that didn't exactly work out...

On-topic: in the opening, Jack Webb opines that we may find the Meaning Of Life in various churches, synagogues, etc. But the writer was fair-minded enough to throw in a shot of Griffith Observatory, hinting that secular types are welcome too.

Note that at the beginning of the episode, LSD was still perfectly legal in California.

Also don't miss the shots of the Sunset Strip, including the club Pandora's Box. Pandora's was the flashpoint of the Sunset Strip "curfew riots" in 1966. An opportunist named Stephen Stills saw the riots, ran home and wrote the song "For What It's Worth (Stop, Hey, What's That Sound)."

You may also recognize one of the "LSD girls" in this episode - Heather Menzies, from "The Sound of Music."

Otherwise it's classic Dragnet stuff, with good old Jack Webb walking around, as usual, like he has the entire California Criminal Code rammed up his butt:

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[Warpy]

1. Too funny! I remember seeing that one when it first aired

visiting friends in a den of hippie iniquity and much of the dialogue was drowned out by gales of laughter. It's just too bad that the old white guys of the time were so utterly clueless and so determined to save America's youth from a deadly drug. That last bit was sarcasm.

More horrors have come from the war on drugs than would ever have come from the drugs, themselves. Moralists who are intent on banishing access to sin always manage to create hell on earth. You've noticed that, I'm sure.

[edgineered]

2. Same time period as Ram Dass, linked below

Ram Dass tells of how he gave acid to the Maharaji (on a CD series), seeing this post reminded me of them; a quick search found this site.

http://www.ramdass.org/ram-dass-gives-maharaji-the-yogi-medicine/

[Gelliebeans]

3. Very cool vid

I just mentioned GP observatory in another thread and hallucinogenic.

[progressoid]

4. Definitely a trip....down memory lane.

I always think of Carrie Fisher's story about her LSD use and Cary Grant.

Starts at about 3:10 :

[Gelliebeans]

5. Thanks for that!

Like the comment about googling herself.