To put it simply: No.
Mild Expansion: Naive question, but good food for thought.
Thoughts of this Middle-Aged Stoner:
There were so many more factors catalyzing that part of history than just Sandoz LSD. As we have today, an unpopular war, but with a DRAFT. Various civil rights' revolutions. Various technologies such as oral contraception.
The social and cultural revolutions witnessed during the 60's & 70's did not stem from a select in-group dosing in the 50's and all of youth trying to dose in the 60's & 70's. Sandoz acid was one of many important factors. I honestly think the main thing was what happened in the Western world after World War II ended. The men came back from the war and knew that home and family were most important. The women had been working in the factories and not all were ready to return to the kitchen. People started having access to technology, (including information) and materialism like never before. People started having babies like never before. 20 years after WWII ended, it is 1965 and those Baby-Boomers are in their early to late teen years . . .
1965 . . . the same year the US's involvement in Vietnam really cranked up in earnest. Now, the draft from WWII had never been dropped. But, in 1969 the brutal lottery system was instituted and people like YOU (if you are male & you probably are if you are reading this) were getting letters saying you HAD to go to a country you couldn't point to on a map and risk your life trying to kill people you didn't know for a cause you didn't support.
So, uparalleled levels of materialism, births, education/information and technology (birth control pills, psychedelics, the space program, etc.) set young minds afire and made them hunger for youthful adventure. Meanwhile, there's that fucking draft letter if you are male, that fucking high school counselor trying to cop a feel of your newly developed tit and laughing when you say you want to be a chemist if you are female, war without end being brutally shown without editing on nightly TV, and your parents and the overall society saying in no uncertain words that you must plug into the values and dress of the WWII generation.
I think a collective WHAT THE FUCK!!?!! kind of phenomenon happened in the collective unconscious, across the morphic fields of youth, whatever. Now it is mid to late 1960's and young people are beginning to hear about reefer, LSD and perhaps other paths to mind expansion. The young people try it, as young people frequently like to try things defined as dangerous by overall society. LSD works its magic.
Now, the stage had ALREADY BEEN set. Many, many other factors had acted as catalyzers. The LSD was more like taking a small but growing fire and dropping a huge load of napalm on it. Direct and powerful fuel for something that had been catalyzed previously. Remember that in the 50's and early 60's only very select groups of scientists, artists, Hollywood types and rich psychoanalysis patients had access to LSD.
Peace & Love,
Pandora
Mild Expansion: Naive question, but good food for thought.
Thoughts of this Middle-Aged Stoner:
There were so many more factors catalyzing that part of history than just Sandoz LSD. As we have today, an unpopular war, but with a DRAFT. Various civil rights' revolutions. Various technologies such as oral contraception.
The social and cultural revolutions witnessed during the 60's & 70's did not stem from a select in-group dosing in the 50's and all of youth trying to dose in the 60's & 70's. Sandoz acid was one of many important factors. I honestly think the main thing was what happened in the Western world after World War II ended. The men came back from the war and knew that home and family were most important. The women had been working in the factories and not all were ready to return to the kitchen. People started having access to technology, (including information) and materialism like never before. People started having babies like never before. 20 years after WWII ended, it is 1965 and those Baby-Boomers are in their early to late teen years . . .
1965 . . . the same year the US's involvement in Vietnam really cranked up in earnest. Now, the draft from WWII had never been dropped. But, in 1969 the brutal lottery system was instituted and people like YOU (if you are male & you probably are if you are reading this) were getting letters saying you HAD to go to a country you couldn't point to on a map and risk your life trying to kill people you didn't know for a cause you didn't support.
So, uparalleled levels of materialism, births, education/information and technology (birth control pills, psychedelics, the space program, etc.) set young minds afire and made them hunger for youthful adventure. Meanwhile, there's that fucking draft letter if you are male, that fucking high school counselor trying to cop a feel of your newly developed tit and laughing when you say you want to be a chemist if you are female, war without end being brutally shown without editing on nightly TV, and your parents and the overall society saying in no uncertain words that you must plug into the values and dress of the WWII generation.
I think a collective WHAT THE FUCK!!?!! kind of phenomenon happened in the collective unconscious, across the morphic fields of youth, whatever. Now it is mid to late 1960's and young people are beginning to hear about reefer, LSD and perhaps other paths to mind expansion. The young people try it, as young people frequently like to try things defined as dangerous by overall society. LSD works its magic.
Now, the stage had ALREADY BEEN set. Many, many other factors had acted as catalyzers. The LSD was more like taking a small but growing fire and dropping a huge load of napalm on it. Direct and powerful fuel for something that had been catalyzed previously. Remember that in the 50's and early 60's only very select groups of scientists, artists, Hollywood types and rich psychoanalysis patients had access to LSD.
Peace & Love,
Pandora
