Pubdate: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 Source: New York Times (NY) Copyright: 2011 The New York Times Company Contact: http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/help/lettertoeditor.html Website: http://www.nytimes.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/298 Author: Cory Franklin Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v11/n182/a09.html A LEGACY OF LSD To the Editor: Re "Electric Kool-Aid Marketing Trip" (Op-Ed, March 19): Michael Walker has written an encomium to Augustus Owsley Stanley III, the "LSD millionaire" who figured out how to manufacture the drug in industrial doses in San Francisco in the mid-1960s. Without question, Mr. Stanley was a key figure in the Sixties counterculture and played a large role in the music, art and "Summer of Love" ethos associated with LSD. But virtually every obituary of Mr. Stanley has romanticized his legacy. Consider how many bad trips, suicides and ruined lives that legacy was also responsible for. Cory Franklin Wilmette, Ill., March 19, 2011 - --- MAP posted-by: Richard R Smith Jr.