Timothy Leary
Biography
Leary was a psychologist and psychedelic evangelist who became one of the most visible figures of the 1960s counterculture, arguing for expanded consciousness and challenging mainstream drug laws and norms after departing Harvard University.
His public campaign collided repeatedly with the criminal legal system. He was arrested and convicted on marijuana charges in the mid-1960s, with one key conviction later undone by the Supreme Court of the United States, and he was sentenced again in 1970 on a subsequent marijuana case. While imprisoned, he escaped custody with help from underground allies, including the drug-smuggling network known as the Brotherhood of Eternal Love. He was captured abroad in Afghanistan in 1972, extradited back to the U.S., and later released from prison in the mid-1970s.
