The author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo'
s Nest." Major influence in psychedelic drug use on the west coast such as Timothy Leary was on the east. He and his band of Merry Pranksters experimented with drugs such as
LSD and cannabis beginning in the early sixties, predating much of the later era
hype. In I believe 1964, they undertook a cross-country road trip in a psychedelic, day-glo, hand-painted old school
bus. All along the way, they "turned on" many
people to the mind-expanding effects of
LSD. They lived communally at Kesey's cabin in La Honda, and hosted parties called Acid Tests where the house band, an early incarnation of the Grateful Dead, played. Here, they served "Electric
Kool-Aid," which was Kool-Aid spiked with acid. in short, Ken Kesey is one of my idols.
