In the 1930's, Albert Hoffman synthesized a new drug called Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, or LSD for short. When he made it, he didn't understand what it was but he felt it call to him despite the drug not showing any significant results on the animals it was tested on. He took what he thought was a small dose, which was about two hundred and fifty gamma, or micrograms, and he had a bad trip because he was in his lab with a lot of people talking to him and machines beeping and such. He didn't enjoy his trip, but he wasn't discouraged and decided that the environment a drug is taken is very important so his wife burned nice smelling candles, put flowers in vases, and opened the windows so fresh air and sunlight would come in. Albert and one of his colleagues once again tried the drug, this time in a more relaxed setting, and he put on sunglasses, laid down on a couch and read a book. He realized his drug had a lot of potential because of the things he experienced.

After LSD's potential became obvious, psychologist jumped on it and immediately realized its benefits to psychotherapy. The defenses that patients may put up were more easily torn down and progress that was typical of four to six months could be done in a day. It was seen as the holy grail of psychology and was loved. But, after one Harvard psychologist Timothy Leary began to gain traction as a leader of the counter culture movement and spread the drug around to people around him, old Americans felt their way of life was threatened so the government, more importantly Nixon, called for the "silent majority" to stand up for what they thought was right (which was racism, gender norms, war, etc.), and LSD was banned.

The counter culture movement was a snowball rolling down a hill, and despite the governments best efforts, drugs like LSD are still popular today. Because of the movement, people became more liberal and people realized that every race, gender, and class was the same and that it was all bullshit. One day, LSD will be legal, though it may not be this generation that makes it happen. The fact that America voted for Trump shows that empathetic and higher order thinking are not the norm for close-minded people who's opinions are based more on fallacies and things taught by parents then by scientific proof. One day, we will all be able to hold and hand realize how equal we truly are. But until that day, the most we can do is be smart about our personal counter-culture actions and hope they become the norm.