Leary's work had value, whatever your take on his style, his autobiography 'Flashbacks' is a great read, especially his jailbreak.
And your problem with Mr Hendrix is? Not many can be master of their instrument and write a decent song.
The goverments of the world were against psychedelic medical drug testing as soon as they realised that, far from being useable as a mind control substance/weapon, it had the opposite result of freeing people from their mental paradigms, not something authority could ever tolerate.
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