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What if the psychedelic revolution had succeeded?
What if at some point between say 1965 and 1975 the regular use of psychedelic drugs had exponentially spread to 2/3 or more of the US population? What would've happened to society? culture? politics? the economy? US foreign policy? the environment? etc
And what about in other countries. If the US started to seriously trip out, Canada, Western Europe, Latin America, Japan, Australia, etc probably wouldn't have been very far behind. Would the Cold War
melt away?
I guess a "successful" psychedelic revolution would be defined as a very solid majority of the US electorate considering themselves regular users of cannabis, hallucinogens, and other psychedelics. Additionally, the War on Drugs would be replaced with some kind of legislation granting or even promoting the use of mind expanding drugs. Then again, if over half the country was flying high, Congress may have ceased to function...
Was there any serious possibility of anything like this happening? I wasn't around then.
I know Timothy Leary ran for governor of California, but there was no possibility of that actually working. I'm assuming a really successful psychedelic revolution would have had to just spread on its own without a real leader or anything, kind of like a spreading
fungus...
Could it have happened? What might the results have been?
One thought of mine would be the "bad trip" result for the country: A civil war between the pro and anti psychedelic factions. how such a war would be fought sounds crazy to me. would it be a fair fight or just a massacre? psychedelic militants vs "good Christians?"
Could it still happen?