This issue focuses on general news of the psychedelic movement, inclding: a tentative schedule of John Aiken’s “Church of the Awakening” spring tour; notices of a symposium on the religious significance of psychedelic drugs and of a series of programs on LSD and the psychedelic movement; f formula for preparing morning glory sees, myths within the psychedelic movement, such as smoking bananas, and interpretation of federal drug stautes.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.”

The early issues focused primarily on various recipes to prepare psychedelic agents from various plants.

Addressed to Carol Tinker, 250 Scott S.F. 94117 Postmarked Apr 5, 1967President’s Message….”Events of Holy Week appeared to get profane as city agencies and eager journalists vied for public favor in decrying the hippy culture of the neighborhood. Our Council can be proud of the immediate reaction of its board in coming together and developing a state (middle pages of the issue of HAIL) supportable by conservatives, liberals and others holding strong convictions about civil liberties and civil rights. Many Council members understandable wince at the manners and dress of the new community. But none, I am certain, would take away the right of any individual to conduct his or her life in an unconventional manner. The unequal and selective enforcement of standards cannot be justified. Which segment of our population, we may ask, will next invoke bureaucratic displeasure?Open House Haight-Ashbury, Buena Vista Park used for successful Easter Egg Hunt,