CHRONOLOGICAL COLLECTION CATALOGUE

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1965.12.001  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information CenterBULLETIN No. 3December 1965Lisa Bieberman”
This issue focuses on the preparation of various psychedelics,notes on recent changes to drug laws, a request for volunteers for a nationwide Psychedelic Telephone Directory, and a coupon entitling the bearer to 2 free 300mcg doses of LSD-25 when present3d in person at the P.I.C.. “Offer expires 12/21/65.”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 early issues focused primarily on various recipes to prepare psychedelic agents from various plants. 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.”
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1965.12.002  Handbill:  “STRIKE An injury to one Free Speech MovementUC Berekely CA”
In addition to the antiwar movement, the Free Speech movement at UC Berkeley was another watershed occurrence. Images on TV of thousands of college students yelling obscenities at the top of their lungs for no other reason than they thought that nobody had a right to tell them that they couldn’t, helped fuel an anti-establishment philosophy that spread across the educational system and then, beyond.
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1965.12.003  Handbill:  “MASS PICKETProtest The Admin’s unilateralFree Speech MovementUC Berkeley CA”
In addition to the antiwar movement, the Free Speech movement at UC Berkeley was another watershed occurrence. Images on TV of thousands of college students yelling obscenities at the top of their lungs for no other reason than they thought that nobody had a right to tell them that they couldn’t helped fuel an anti-establishment philosophy that spread across the educational system and then, beyond.
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1965.12.004  Handbill:  “SUPPORT THE STRIKE!“Twelve police charged JackStop ExpulsionFree Speech MovementUC Berkeley CA”
In addition to the antiwar movement, the Free Speech movement at UC Berkeley was another watershed occurrence. Images on TV of thousands of college students yelling obscenities at the top of their lungs for no other reason than they thought that nobody had a right to tell them that they couldn’t helped fuel an anti-establishment philosophy that spread across the educational system and then, beyond.