The jailbreak of Timothy Leary, the counterculture's acid king

The jailbreak of Timothy Leary, the counterculture's acid king

Between the 1960s and ’70s, Timothy Leary was arrested a total of 36 times. From the 1960s, Leary was an outspoken advocate for the use of psychedelic drugs, namely LSD, and he had his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and his title as a clinical psychologist at Harvard University, to his credit. After being introduced to psychedelic mushrooms in Mexico in August of 1960, he began a research program, the Har…