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SSS 2008-03-03

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Psych, I'm Christopher Intagliata, got a minute? While at Stanford in the mid-1960s, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest author Ken Kesey started adding a peculiar ingredient to his home-cooked venison stew--LSD. N

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