The View From the Castle: The next Smithsonian symposium will take up the mass use of drugs, and try to set it into an explanatory framework

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Summary

Number four of the Smithsonian Institution's revived symposia, which was scheduled for November 16-19, 1970, was to discuss the present-day quest for social identity and the mass phenomenon drug usage in the United States. Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley also mentions information about "the psychedelic mystique" developed by Professor Nathan Adler of Berkley.

Subject

  • Adler, Nathan
  • Henry, Joseph 1797-1878
  • University of California (1868-1952)

Category

Smithsonian Institution History Bibliography

Notes

Ripley introduces his essay with a brief semi-anecdotal perspective of his younger days.

Contained within

Smithsonian Vol. 1, no. 6 (Journal)

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

September 1970

Topic

  • Drug abuse
  • Congresses and conventions
  • Meetings
  • Youth Culture
  • Castle View

Physical description

p. 4

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