Firing Line (TV Series)

The World of LSD (1967)

Timothy Leary: Self - Guest

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• Timothy Leary : The people who are using marijuana today tend to be the highly-educated. They come from the best colleges. There is no LSD or marijuana problem at Podunk Junior College in Arkansas. It's at Harvard, Princeton, and even at Yale that fifty to seventy percent of the undergraduates are seriously experimenting with the most important thing that can be experimented with: Their own consciousness.

  William Buckley : Are you confusing adjustment with education? Why did you mention the difference between Podunk College and Yale University? What makes you think they're better adjusted at Yale than at Podunk?

  Timothy Leary : [falls silent]