Addressed to Carol Tinker, 250 Scott S.F. Postmarked May 4, 1966Art Fair Awards, Creative Arts Program Continues, Montessori Head Start, Intercultural House Tour, Hamilton Youth Center, Need for affordable housing and relocating from urban renewal projects, police power and individual freedom.“A moonlight walk in the Haight-Ashbury is a trip to Fantasia. Peculiar old facades lull the imagination into doll-like reveries. Performers in the nightly moth dance of the whatnicks on Haight live up to the set design as they act out their disillusionment with modern times.No less fantastic, but in another sense, is the over-reaction to these charades by elements of our more conventional population. They, who have played their lives by the rules, resent this invasion by the blasphemy and are confused by the obvious caricature of the values and institutions around which they have fashioned their lives.“And who is to remain wholly sane while his political and moral heritage is credited with the miserable condition of minorities, daily napalm showers on civilians, and exploitation of farm workers?”

Addressed to Mr. R Rexroth, 250 Scott St, San Francisco, California, 94117Art Fair Awards, Creative Arts Program Continues, Montessori Head Start, Intercultural House Tour, Hamilton Youth Center, Need for affordable housing and relocating from urban renewal projects, police power and individual freedom.“A moonlight walk in the Haight-Ashbury is a trip to Fantasia. Peculiar old facades lull the imagination into doll-like reveries. Performers in the nightly moth dance of the whatnicks on Haight live up to the set design as they act out their disillusionment with modern times.No less fantastic, but in another sense, is the over-reaction to these charades by elements of our more conventional population. They, who have played their lives by the rules, resent this invasion by the blasphemy and are confused by the obvious caricature of the values and institutions around which they have fashioned their lives.“And who is to remain wholly sane while his political and moral heritage is credited with the miserable condition of minorities, daily napalm showers on civilians, and exploitation of farm workers?”

This issue focuses on general news of the psychedelic movement, inclding: News of the June 13-19 conference in San Francisco, Washington DC news, Legal test cases progressing through the courts, Gene Davis’ psychedelic ranch in California, and a review of some states’ laws.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.”