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The spirit of the Grateful Dead was alive and well as Dead and Company's final tour hit Phoenix, Bob Weir leading his bandmates in a stellar setlist.

But if they believe he is their -- path to power, their path to their reactionary agenda, like repealing reproductive freedom, they will embrace it even if it means the end of our constitutional democracy. to me, that's unforgivable. but you can't look away from the proof. >> here is the acid test for me. i will ask you this question. you don't have a say in who will be the republican nominee. you could have interests or views. even if it were the case that he was the weakest candidate in a general election, versus other folks in that field, do you still think -- do you still hope he does not ...

Each year on Bicycle Day, we celebrate Albert Hofmann's discovery of the profound and mystical effects of LSD.

Psychedelic rock, style of rock music popular in the late 1960s that was largely inspired by hallucinogens, or so-called “mind-expanding” drugs such as marijuana and LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide; “acid”), and that reflected drug-induced states through the use of feedback, electronics, and intense volume. Emerging in 1966, psychedelic rock became the soundtrack of the wider cultural exploration of the hippie movement. Initially centred on the West Coast of the United States, where the early Grateful Dead was the house band at novelist Ken Kesey’s Acid Test multimedia “happenings...

Music, putting on costumes, doing all kinds of acts, and stuff like that. and then kerouac sat on the couch drinking a big tall budweiser. he was obviously not an enthusiastic guy. those beats, they had done their thing, you know? i really felt like the torch had been passed from those guys to the psychedelic generation. >> kesey in many ways was very messianic, and he started feeling that acid would allow you to see a larger truth. and they started saying, let's get as many people to try lsd as you can. >> and so we started renting halls. we called the thing the acid test, and the band, of co...