In the summer of 1964, novelist Ken Kesey (author of "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"), poet Allen Ginsberg, and Grateful Dead lyricist, Robert Hunter; had beensubjects of an MK-ULTRA(CIA) test of the effects of LSD, conducted at Stanford University in California. Shortly thereafter, Kesey launched a year long cross country trip in a day-glow painted school bus filled with friends called the "Merry Pranksters." They distributed thousands of doses of LSD along the way, which had been supplied to them by Ronald Stark, a CIA operative. The hallucinogenic drug, LSD (Lysergic acid dithalymide), was first developed in federal government labs, even though its discovery is attributed to Leary and Owsley, who both worked for the government initially. More information is available in the book, "Drugging America," by Rodney Stitch, a former federal investigator.
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