LSD, JFK, CIA?

[Doug Millison]

What evidence can you provide that knowledge of LSD use in the U.S. was so
common in 1966 that housewives across the country would know about it?
None, because it's not so. Only a few tens of thousands of people had been
exposed to LSD through officially sanctioned research programs, and by 1966
perhaps 10 times that many might have experimented with it outside those
programs (by siphoning off the official stocks -- clandestine manufacture
was just beginning at that time).  So, generously, perhaps a million people
had taken LSD in 1966. What was the U.S. population at that time?  Where was
the mass media coverage of this phenomenon?  There's a reason why it was
called the hippie "sub-culture"  -- because it wasn't mainstream, it was
underground.  And precisely because mainstream America knew little or
nothing of what they were doing, especially with regard to LSD's potential,
mainstream Americans were all the more prepared to accept government
propaganda that demonized LSD when the government outlawed it.  Pynchon
writes poignantly about the threat that LSD posed to the State, in Vineland.