Acid Dreams: Where Government and The Drug Culture Collide

"Ultimately, the question arises as to the extent to which the acid craze was orchestrated by the US government as a means of social control. Perhaps it is true that the younger generation of the 1960s was so busy with drugs and mysticism that the new left never did reach its full potential. While the authors acknowledge the role of the state in introducing the drug to the masses they note that the evidence for it deliberately doing so is lacking."