The following persons met at 429 Ashbury St on Thursday evening, Dec 15, 1966 to discuss organization, action and purpose of the Town Hall and its possible organization. PURPOSE: To promote an atmosphere of idealism, cooperation, trust, mutual understanding and imagination so as to draw the Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood together forming a place where all people may live, work, think believe, feel dream, hope and plan in true human dignity respecting the rights of each individual person and further show their humanity by their considered vigorous action on whatever problems may confront the community at any given time.

Published twice monthly (with exceptions) by the Committee for Nonviolent Action and the New York Workshop in Nonviolence, both with offices a 5 Beekman St, room 1033, New York, N.Y.Sentencing of Draft Card burners, Stop Escalation of the war in Vietnam, Port Chicago vigil, Reviews of anti-war books, and an article titled, “Black Power and the Yellow Submarine”

This issue focuses on general news of the psychedelic movement, inclding: “An all-day rally of psychedelic people will be held at Golden Gate park on January 14; Tim Leary, Allen Gionsberg and others will be there. For more information contact Michael Bowen”; Timothy Leary court battles, The Bruin Humanist Forum, Request for volunteers for the 1967 Psychedelic Phone Directory; and a list of proposed psychedelic New Year’s Resolutions.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.”