#71: Douglas George - The First To Mass Distribute LSD in America | The Psychedelic Series (1/5)

Today, we sit down and hear from Douglas George, who was one of the first producers and distributors of LSD in the US. Coming from humble beginnings in Iowa, George attended college as a physicist in Riverside before deciding he wanted to change the way that people thought about existence. Developing an interest in hallucinogenic drugs, George pushed aside his physics backgrounds and focused on producing a compound that was new to the world. Living in Hermosa Beach in Southern California, he tapped into the counterculture wave of the psychedelic experience by traveling up and down the coast handing out his own LSD. George did everything in the vain of scientific discovery as well as opening the public’s mind about the reality they lived in. Meeting Owsley Stanley in the early 1960s, George’s LSD was one of the main causes of the famed counterculture movement that sprouted up in San Francisco.

George’s motivations were always scientific, but that didn’t stop him from meeting and interacting with some of the icons of the Counterculture Movement on his journey. A journey that took him to new horizons, brought existential discoveries, and changed his brain in a way he never could have imagined.

Links From the Episode

Paul Bindrim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bindrim

Owsley Stanley:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley

The Psychedelic Timeline: https://psychedelictimes.com/psychedelic-timeline/

Methedrine (Methamphetamine): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methamphetamine

LSD Dendrite Connection <Psychedelics Promote Structural and Functional Neural Plasticity - NCBI (08/08/2018)>: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6082376/

Grateful Dead: https://www.dead.net/

Alan Watts: https://alanwatts.org/

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