

John Smythies were researching the correlation between schizophreniaĪnd the hallucinogens mescaline and adrenochrome at Weyburn Hospital Now senior psychiatrist at Alabama's Bryce Hospital. The first visage of Hubbard was beheld by Dr.

He is treated like a demigod by some, as a lunatic uncle by others.īut nobody is ambivalent about the Captain: He was as brilliantĪs the noonday sun, mysterious as the rarest virus, and friendly This writer that "nothing of substance has been written aboutĪl Hubbard, and probably nothing ever should." Those who will talk about Al Hubbard are few. Psilocybin, mescaline or his personal favorite, Sandoz LSD-25. His ever-present leather satchel loaded with pharmaceutically-pure Old lady for the Sears-Roebuck catalog." Waited for him to unlock Janiger once said of Hubbard, "We waited for him like a little Movement nothing less than the membrane through which all passed

They called him "the Johnny Appleseed of LSD." He was to the psychedelic Of mirrors and shadows, revealing himself to even his closest Hubbard might exist in death as he did in life-a man Of associates had not recently agreed to open its files, CaptainĪlfred M. Nor chatty relatives to memorialize him in print. You will not read about him in the history books. Leary.before Ken Kesey's band of Merry Pranksters and theirĮlectric Kool-Aid Acid Tests.before the dawn of the Gratefulĭead, there was Alfred M. Published originally by High Times, November 1991īefore Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.before Timothy
