The Final Taboo
Timothy Leary
Jonathan
May 24, 2026June 1980
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This item is from the Leary Audio collection compiled by M. Horowitz Leary Audio #18 The Final Taboo Huntington Beach, CA, June, 1980
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A long, energetic monologue argues that drugs have evolved through generations, from botanicals to psychedelics to more precise 1980s compounds, and frames them as tools for inner exploration and cultural change. It also links drug policy, counterculture, economics, prison, and space travel into a broader vision of human freedom, mobility, and self-transformation.
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