History's Mysteries Getting High: A History of LSD (Season 6, Episode 14)
TV Episode | Documentary, History, Mystery

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History's Mysteries

Getting High: A History of LSD (Season 6, Episode 14)

TV Episode | Documentary, History, Mystery

In the 1960s, LSD exploded into the popular consciousness - and inside the brains of the countless trippers who tried the revolutionary drug. Thirty years later its role in the cultural upheavals of that tumultuous time is still debated.

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2000 (United States)

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12 cast members

Name	Known for
David Ackroyd Self - Narrator Self - Narrator See fewer	The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978)
Allen Cohen Self Self See fewer	It Was 20 Years Ago Today (1987)
Albert Hofmann Self (archive footage) (as Albert Hoffman) Self (archive footage) (as Albert Hoffman) See fewer	A Bicycle Trip (2008)
Oscar Janiger Self Self See fewer	Frankie & Alice (2010)
Arthur Kent Self - Host Self - Host See fewer	Black Night in June (2019)
Ken Kesey Self Self See fewer	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Timothy Leary Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Roadside Prophets (1992)
Martin A. Lee Self Self See fewer	The Substance: Albert Hofmann's LSD (2011)
Ralph Metzner Self Self See fewer	Ram Dass, Fierce Grace (2001)
Grace Slick Self Self See fewer	American Hustle (2013)
Jay Stevens Self Self See fewer	Drug-Taking and the Arts (1993)
Mark Weiman Self Self See fewer	History's Mysteries (1998)