Documentary about the potentially dangerous and unpredictable drug LSD. Various experts discuss how LSD is made and the hazards involved in using it while avid users explain why they enjoy taking it.
Production
Gloriously unhinged editing cuts between lab coats and lava lamps.
Acting
Sal Mineo's narrator voice: Oscar nominee reads 'drugs are bad' script.
Director
Max Miller
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released at peak Summer of Love, this was conservative America's answer to Haight-Ashbury—part of a wave of 'educational' scare films funded by nervous institutions.
Sal Mineo was secretly struggling with his own substance issues during recording; his detached, almost sedated delivery may not have been acting.
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