Mind-Altering Drugs

Visions of a utopian society took shape in the Haight-Ashbury district in the mid 1960s. More

By the mid-1960s, as North Beach became commercialized, baby boomers drawn to a Bohemian lifestyle began moving into a low-rent neighborhood across town, the Haight-Ashbury district. Many began experimenting with communal living in the large Victorian houses of the Haight, and visions of a utopian society began taking shape, enhanced by a mind-altering new drug called LSD, or acid.

AIR DATE 6/14/17