Counterculture figure Owsley Stanley, who provided millions of LSD trips, dies in Australia
March 14, 2011 Leave a comment
Counterculture figure Owsley Stanley, who provided millions of LSD trips, dies in Australia
By ROD McGUIRK, Sunday, March 13, 9:39 PM
CANBERRA, Australia — Owsley “Bear” Stanley, a 1960s counterculture icon who worked with The Grateful Dead and was a prolific LSD producer, died in a car crash in Australia, his family said Monday. He was 76.
Lyrics sung by The Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa reference Stanley and his brushes with the law, underlining his influence.
Stanley produced an estimated pound (half a kilogram) of pure LSD, or roughly 5 million “trips” of normal potency of the hallucinogenic drug, after enrolling in 1963 at the University of California at Berkeley and becoming involved in the drug scene that underpinned the hippie movement, according to the BookRags.com website.
