CHRONOLOGICAL COLLECTION CATALOGUE

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1968.12.001  Handbill:  “Free City Puppets Free Workshop”
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1968.12.002  Handbill:  “Psychedelic Information CenterBULLETIN No. 21December, 1968Lisa Bieberman”
This issue focuses on the author’s attendance at a conference on “Creativity and Psychoactive Agents,” where one of the presenters rejects the religious hypothesis about LSD, because of the misery he has seen in such places as Haight-Ashbury, where its use has become demonic, with people turning to black magic or living in caves. The author states that she too “observed the demonic aspect of the LSD scene” and that “If LSD is meant to open a man to God, then the demonic is exactly what one would expect from its perversion. I have seen the misery. It is terrible to behold.” This issue is printed on light green paper.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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1968.12.003  Legal Size:  “PUNCH & JUDY FREE FOREVER DAILY Free City Puppets”