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Professors at Harvard led the attack on the wayward lecturer, warning that experimental drugs like LSD should be administered by physicians  in controlled medical settings, not by psychologists at late-night parties. Leary  responded that "control of the mind through drugs, which we call internal politics, will be the leading civil rights issue in the coming decades." He claimed, "LSD use is a sacramental ritual." In  1963, he was fired from Harvard.   

Professors at Harvard led the attack on the wayward lecturer, warning that experimental drugs like LSD should be administered by physicians  in controlled medical settings, not by psychologists at late-night parties. Leary  responded that "control of the mind through drugs, which we call internal politics, will be the leading civil rights issue in the coming decades." He claimed, "LSD use is a sacramental ritual." In  1963, he was fired from Harvard.   

Harvard's action made him immensely popular in the dropout world, despite repeated reports of "bad trips" and psychological damage to drug users.  Despite repeated arrests he avoided prison until until 1970. He escaped from a California prison but in 1973 was apprehended trying to enter Afghanistan; he turned to prison until paroled in 1976. Leary continued his advocacy lectures across the country from his base in Hollywood.   

Harvard's action made him immensely popular in the dropout world, despite repeated reports of "bad trips" and psychological damage to drug users.  Despite repeated arrests he avoided prison until until 1970. He escaped from a California prison but in 1973 was apprehended trying to enter Afghanistan; he turned to prison until paroled in 1976. Leary continued his advocacy lectures across the country from his base in Hollywood.  He married five times, twice to one woman. The first of his spouses committed suicide, as did his only daughter.

He died of cancer, but remains an iconic hero to the surviving addicts he introduced to dangerous drugs.

He died of cancer, but remains an iconic hero to the surviving addicts he introduced to dangerous drugs.