> Psychedelics were strongly associated with hippies, the antiwar movement, and the counterculture -- that (and not anything Leary said or did) is the real reas

> Psychedelics were strongly associated with hippies, the antiwar movement, and the counterculture -- that (and not anything Leary said or did) is the real reason they were made illegal. I sometimes wonder if what was going on at the time had some effect on that decision - the cold war (among others) was going strong back then and I think the spread of the hippy mentality/lifestyle would have been a genuine threat to the US's ability to win that showdown. Now that the USSR is broken up might be the chance for try number two, but now we have China to be concerned with. That said, this mainstreaming of psychedelics seems to be unfolding almost completely without government resistance, which seems surreal to me.