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...Lysergic acid diethylamide was entirely legal in California until October 1966, and the mind-expanding drug made popular in these parts by ex-Prof. Timothy Leary fueled the "Hashberry" from start to finish. Publicly-advertised acid tests--group tripping experiences organized by novelist Ken ("One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest") Kesey and his Merry Pranksters--spread the wonder drug from the province of a few enlightened intellectuals to the grasp of any who wanted to know...
...mass availability and use of the drug, further spread through the various acid factories established by master chemist Owsley Stanley, are the key to understanding what the Haight was all about, and where the not quite normative views of reality actually came from...
...life. Perry, to no one's surprise, is a former hippie himself, but he avoids the temptation to show the Haight as the 20th century's paradise lost. The rivalries between factions and artists, the frequent incomprehensibility of hippie philosophy, and the dependence on acid to keep the dream alive are tellingly recounted in this lucid work of historical journalism...
Then I looked at the contents label for this "baby shampoo:" water, amphoteric-19, polysorbate 20, PEG-150 distearate, sorbatan laurate, boric acid, fragrance and... benzyl alcohol...
Recycling systems also show promise. Companies in California, for example, found that "pickling acid," which is needed in metal-processing plants to remove scale, could be mixed with zinc sulfate and used as a soil additive in citrus orchards, or mixed with air-filtered dust from scrap-steel plants to permit profitable recovery of zinc-iron compounds. Others have found that spent fluid from the manufacture of semiconductors could be used to refine old crankcase oil, helping to eliminate two disposal problems for the price...