“Humboldt Hustle” is dark, bitter, and realistic drug crime fiction written in the vein of Irvine Welsh, Charles Bukowski, and Hunter Thompson, but it reads more like fun, fast-paced exposé on a day-in-the-life of members of criminal subcultures, like Elmore Leonard or Carl Hiaasen or Mario Puzo. It was inspired to be written by the […]

1967 in San Francisco, during the height of the Summer of Love, tablets bearing the name “STP” (supposedly for Serenity, Tranquility and Peace) emerged on the streets of the Haight-Ashbury District in San Francisco. These pills contained 20mg of DOM, 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine, not LSD. (At the time, LSD was often sold in pill form, or “tabulated,” […]

The Human Be In was an event at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park Polo Fields on January 14, that lead up to The Summer of Love, in 1967. It was a response to a new California law banning the use of the psychedelic drug LSD that had come into effect on October 6, 1966. The […]

This is from a recording of Dr. Tim Leary speaking to the youth of 1966: “If you’re over the age of 40, I’m not sure you should listen to this record,” starts out in his signature soft-spoken, monotone voice. “I don’t like to get people mad.” Especially people who have guns and put others in […]