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>> Don: I'm Don Des Jarlais Baker College, I graduated in 1967 and to contribute
to the memories of Rice history, I'd like to talk about drug use
on the Rice campus during the middle and late '60s.
I did my senior honors thesis as a behavioral scientist at Rice
on drug use on campus those days.
That was when Timothy Leary visited the Rice campus, it was when Ken Kesey
and the Merry Pranksters came by and visited the Rice campus.
There was a real underground, very safe, very consciousness expanding use
of psychedelic drugs at the time on the Rice campus.
It apparently has gone away but during 1966, 1967, there was a small group of people at Rice
who were very much into consciousness expanding and the safer use of drugs
so that I think it's important for Rice's history to note that Rice did not totally miss
out on the drug use of the 1960s.
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