A prophecy of a declaration of independence ...
Subtitle: the first translation of this prophesy into political action will take place October 6, 1966 ... the date that the California law prohibiting the posession of L.S.D. comes into effect ... we will gather in a love-pageant rally -- to affirm our identity, community, and innocence from influence of the fear addiction of the general public as symbolized in the law ... bring the color gold, bring photos of personal saints and gurus and heroes of the underground, bring children, flowers, flutes, drums, feathers, bands, beads, banners, flags, incense, chimes, gongs, cymbals, symbols, costumes, bring joy
Publisher: publisher not identified
Published: 1966
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Subjects: Counterculture; History; LSD (Drug); Hippies; Narcotic laws; Social history; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Description: Broadside announcing a rally in the 'panhandle' of Golden Gate Park on October 6, 1966 in reaction to the California law banning LSD and that similar rallies would also be held that day in New York, Los Angeles, London and Amsterdam. The event was envisioned by San Francisco Oracle editors Allen Cohen and Michael Bowen as an alternative to protest and as a celebration of the psychedelic life. The Grateful Dead (performing their new song "Alice D. Millionaire"), Janis Joplin, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Wildflower played for approximately 800 people, and the event's success helped prepare the way for the Human Be-In on January 14, 1967.
Notes: Printed in green; "declaration" and illustration of a marijuana leaf within double line borders.

"When in the flow of human events it becomes necessary for the people to cease to recognize the obsolete social patterns which have isolated man from his consciousness and to create with the youthful energies of the world revolutionary communities of harmonious relations to which the wo-billion-year-old life process entitles them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind should declare the causes which impell them to this creation. We hold these experiences to be self-evident, that all is equal, that the creation endows us with certain inalienable rights, that among these are: the freedom of body, the pursuit of joy, and the expansion of consciousness and that to secure these rights, we the citizens of the earth declare our love and compassion for all conflicting hate-carrying men and women of the world ..."

Purchased in 2018 with the Harmand Teplow Class of 1920 Book Fund.

Signed typescript letter from Jack Towle, one of the founding members of the original Family Dog, to his mother defending his use of LSD ("I am very cautious in most everything I do, so you need have no fears on that account") and encouraging her to give it a try. Addressed from 1836 Pine St., San Francisco.