The Original "Captain Trips", Alfred Hubbard... Psychedelic Pioneer. In the 1950s he traveled the world Turning On "the Best People" with LSD hoping to change the Course of History.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Matthew_Hubbard
He believed that a major cultural benefit could be achieved by providing a Psychedelic Experience to The Right People... Captains of Industry, Movie Stars, Politicians, Artists, Musicians, Architects, High Ranking Church Figures, Intelligence Agents, Scientists and Authors. Then they would remake society using what they had learned. He provided LSD to about 6,000 people and gave them guided trips...

https://erowid.org/chemicals/lsd/lsd_media1.shtml
A group of Politicians Wives ALSO believed that the could make the world a better place if they Turned On the Best and the Brightest...It is said that Mary Pinchot Meyer gave LSD the President Kennedy... and then he came to the realization that the War in Vietnam was a bad idea and should be stopped. Then the Defense Contractor Corporations had JFK Assassinated in order to Make a Profit on the War...

Hubbard concluded that the "Set and Setting" had a major influence on the Quality of the Trip. Later Timothy Leary repeated this "Set and Setting" theory. The SET refers to your current Mindset... For Example: If you are currently going thru a messy divorce it would interfere with having a wonderful trip as your Mindset would be obsessed with your problems OR if you were employed by the Department of Defense designing Biological Weapons... You might become upset and anxious when LSD revealed that your entire life was evil... Like what happened to Dr.Frank Olson. The Setting referred to location and what was happening there... A trip would be  vastly different if you were at home, in a doctors office or at a Grateful Dead Concert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra 

http://all.net/journal/deception/MKULTRA/www.parascope.com/ds/mkultra0.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_Dreams_(book)

https://www.amazon.com/Search-Manchurian-Candidate-Behavioral-Sciences/dp/0393307948

https://erowid.org/culture/characters/hubbard_al/hubbard_al.shtml 


Before Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band...before Timothy Leary...before Ken Kesey's band of Merry Pranksters and their Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests...before the dawn of the Grateful Dead, there was Alfred M. Hubbard: the Original Captain Trips.
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Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics: Great Book: "How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence"

https://www.amazon.com/Change-Your-Mind-Consciousness-Transcendence/dp/1594204225

How to Change Your Mind is a singular adventure into the experience of various altered states of consciousness, along with a deep dive into both the latest brain science and the thriving underground community of psychedelic therapists. Pollan introduces us to Silicon Valley professionals who take micro-doses of LSD to inspire creativity and innovation, seekers hoping for a mystical or religious experience, and terminal cancer patients who have had their fear of death diminished by a single psychedelic experience. Pollan also sifts the historical record to separate the truth about these mysterious drugs from the myths that have surrounded them since the 1960s.

A deeply researched and deeply personal exploration of human consciousness, Pollan’s “mental travelogue” is not just about psychedelic drugs but also how, in a world that offers us both struggle and beauty, we can do our best to be fully present and find meaning in our lives. In conversation with Alix Spiegel, co-host of “Invisibilia” and a reporter for NPR’s Science Desk.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?445699-2/michael-pollan-discusses-how-change-mind 

Alfred Matthew Hubbard (July 24, 1901–August 31, 1982) was an early proponent for the drug LSD during the 1950s. He is reputed to have been the "Johnny Appleseed of LSD" and the first person to emphasize LSD's potential as a visionary or transcendental drug.^[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Matthew_Hubbard