...I think she'll know...
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When the men on the chessboard Get up and tell you where to go And you've just had some kind of mushroom And your mind is moving low Go ask Alice I think she'll know
Lyrics from White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane
This is the best summary I could come up with:
"I just saw this cover … it was this girl with this sort of half-shadowed face and then it had these eight words, which have been luring people to that book for 50 years: 'Go Ask Alice, a real diary by Anonymous,'" author and journalist Rick Emerson says.
After her first accidental acid trip — Alice unknowingly accepts a glass of Coke that is spiked with LSD — she starts hanging with the hip crowd and experimenting with more drugs and dabbling in risky sex.
By the mid-60s, the family had settled in a sprawling mansion in Provo, Utah — home of the Mormon Church's largest missionary training centre, Brigham Young University, and buzzing with business opportunities.
Toxicology reports found no traces of drugs in Diane's system, but Linkletter became convinced she'd been experiencing "LSD flashback" — a rare phenomenon where months or years after taking acid, users suddenly find themselves hallucinating again.
He even spent a night at the White House with Mr Nixon, comparing notes on their shared nemesis Timothy Leary, a psychologist who described psychedelics as "God's greatest gift to man".
Jay's Journal follows the story of a "sweet, bright high school student" who falls in with the wrong crowd and starts dating a "dangerous girl", dabbling in drugs and experimenting with devil worship.
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