Cary Grant & LSD

[David Morris]

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/03/his-girl-lsd-the-cary-grant-experience.html

Cary Grant was the first mainstream celebrity to espouse the virtues
of psychedelic drugs. Whereas novelist Aldous Huxley's famous 1954
treatise The Doors of Perception recounted his remarkable experiences
with mescaline, Huxley was hardly mainstream - a darling of
intellectual circles to be sure, but a far cry from a matinee idol.
Grant was one of the biggest stars Hollywood had to offer when he
jumped headlong into Huxley's Heaven and Hell. His endorsement of
subconscious exploration, arguably, created more interest in LSD than
Dr. Timothy Leary who was largely preaching to the converted. Grant on
the other hand was the fantasy of countless Midwestern women. He
convinced wholesome movie starlets like Esther Williams and Dyan
Cannon to blow their minds. When Ladies Home Journal and Good
Housekeeping interviewed him, the topic of conversation wasn't Cary's
favorite recipe or "the problem with youth today." Instead, Cary Grant
was telling happy homemakers that LSD was the greatest thing in the
world.