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...following the city hall murders of Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, San Francisco and its environs had developed a reputation that would give heartburn to a Chamber of Commerce. First there was the 1967 Summer of Love, with its easy exchange of drugs and sex in Haight-Ashbury. Then in 1973 came the racially motivated Zebra killings; Agnos, who was seriously wounded after leaving a neighborhood political meeting, was one of the gunman's 18 randomly chosen victims. Next followed the kidnaping of Newspaper Heiress Patty Hearst and the 1978 mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, to which...
...this some obsucre tribal ritual? Performance art? Haight-Ashbury, circa...
Slowly the dark side emerged. San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the communal temple of flower power, became a seedy slum of strung-out addicts. Heroin sent urban crime soaring as addicts stole to sustain their habits. For many college students, LSD became a bad trip...
Since tiny quantities of synthetic drugs can supply a user's habit for days, "one clandestine lab can spit out as many drugs as a foreign country," says David Smith, director of the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic. Last year California lawmen raided 235 illegal drug factories, but they say that for every lab hit, three others were missed...
Most non-Deadheads don't know about all this musical experimentation. They--read: I--have come to associate the band almost entirely with drugs. That's not to say that such an association is inaccurate. As part of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury subculture in the late '60s, The Dead were typical of the bands on the psychedelic scene. The Acid Tests, in which the band participated in 1965, typify the Dead's connection with drugs. At the tests, different bands would get together, trip on acid, and play. In Gans and Simon's book, Garcia said, "The freedom...