Psychedelic Pioneer Peggy Mellon Hitchcock Dies at 90 hightimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hightimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The energetic scion of a storied wealthy family, Peggy Mellon Hitchcock funded Timothy Leary’s psychedelic adventures and famously helped him find the spot to do so, at her brothers’ estate in Millbrook, N.Y.
She was an enthusiastic supporter of the counterculture. And when she suggested that her brothers rent Mr. Leary a mansion, she made psychedelic history.