Free speech and censorship were certainly hot tops in 1965, and matters between the police and free speech advocates came to a head in August of that year when the San Francisco Recreation and Park Commission canceled the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s permit to stage performances in city parks after denouncing the group’s most recent show as indecent, obscene and offensive to both children and adults.But the Mime Troupe, led by R.G. Davis, decided to put the play on anyway. His arrest was the lightning moment in the history of the San Francisco Mime Troupe that served to build an audience for direct action as a form of guerilla theater. The Mime Troupe's resistance and confrontational style, their uniting theater to revolution, and their refusal to be canceled, eventually led to their successful challenges in city court and in the court of public opinion.

This issue focuses on the preparation of various psychedelics; the Neo-American Church; the Church of the Awakening; The Information Center in Cambridge, Mass., and the attempted formation of an LSD LOAN FUND to be sued as a bail fund to keep psychedelic activits out of jail, and to help finance active project to make psychedelics, and training in their use, available.In the fall of 1966 Lisa Bieberman, one of Timothy Leary’s followers, started publishing a more-or-less bi-monthly “Psychedelic Information Center BULLETIN.” The later issues espouse conclusions about drug use (“marijuana inflates one’s self-conceit; but LSD undermines it.”), the status of various laws and legal cases concerning drug usage and possession, the results of clinical trials of psychotropic agents, the psychological repercussions of using LSD (flashbacks), the physiological repercussions of using LSD (chromosome damage), the religious use of LSD, and in the final issue, 5 years later, Lisa’s realization that she did not understand LSD and that she did not plan to “take psychedelics any more because I am afraid of them.”