The late, great Carrie Fisher was famously outspoken about her drug use, but one story she never mentioned to the public was her experience with Owsley Acid, a type of LSD. This story was brought to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Illustration by BORIS SÉMÉNIAKO On Dec. 21, 1967 — the winter solstice, when the sun’s annual perambulations through the ...

Owsley Stanley was known as the foremost underground LSD chemist of the 1960s. But he was also an exacting pioneer of live concert sound, a man who helped invent both monitor systems and high-fidelity ...

RICHMOND — For years, longtime residents of Point Richmond, the tiny enclave at the foot of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, had heard the stories about “The King of Acid” who briefly lived in the city ...

In 2007, writer Robert Greenfield interviewed Berkeley-dropout-turned-acid-cooker Owsley Stanley III – whose pure, potent LSD was favored by Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters and the Grateful Dead – for ...

Ken Kesey, the late author and psychedelic ranger, once told a High Times interviewer that “Acid ended the Vietnam War….Acid was a blessed thing, a powerful thing.” While he obviously didn’t mean the ...

Owsley “Bear” Stanley was the self-taught master chemist who produced much of the acid used to popularize the psychedelic chemical in California in the mid-60s, which was partly chronicled in Tom ...

Way out in the western hills of Sonoma County where no one can hear it, Owsley “Bear” Stanley’s personal speaker system is cranking Doc and Merle Watson’s version of “Tennessee Stud,” recorded by Bear ...

Owsley “Bear” Stanley will go down in counterculture history as the legendary ’60s acid king who manufactured high-quality LSD for a generation of trippers, but his more lasting legacy may be as a ...

When I showed up at the IJ on Tuesday afternoon to help cover election night, I had a message on my phone from rock writer Robert Greenfield, author of “Bear: The Life and Times of Augustus Owsley ...