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title: "Metro Reading : “Timothy Leary and the Baby Boomers did not usher in the first…"
date: 2024-01-22T16:29:24.000Z
author: Ricardo Mendes
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# Metro Reading : “Timothy Leary and the Baby Boomers did not usher in the first…

Metro Reading : “Timothy Leary and the Baby Boomers did not usher in the first psychedelic era,” Breen writes. “They ended it.”

Book Review :

When America First Dropped Acid
[Well before the hippies arrived, LSD and other hallucinogens were poised to enter the American mainstream.](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/29/tripping-on-utopia-margaret-mead-the-cold-war-and-the-troubled-birth-of-psychedelic-science-benjamin-breen-book-review)