TIL that after psychologist Timothy Leary was sentenced to prison, he had to take a test that he himself created. He used his knowledge to be assigned to a lower-security prison and escaped.
TIL that after psychologist Timothy Leary was sentenced to prison, he had to take a test that he himself created. He used his knowledge to be assigned to a lower-security prison and escaped.
On January 21, 1970, Leary received a ten-year sentence for his 1968 offense, with a further ten added later while in custody for a prior arrest in 1965, for a total of 20 years to be served consecutively. On his arrival in prison, he was given psychological tests used to assign inmates to appropriate work details. Having designed some of these tests himself (including the "Leary Interpersonal Behavior Inventory"), Leary answered them in such a way that he seemed to be a very conforming, conventional person with a great interest in forestry and gardening.[108] As a result, he was assigned to work as a gardener in a lower-security prison from which he escaped in September 1970, saying that his nonviolent escape was a humorous prank and leaving a challenging note for the authorities to find after he was gone
10 years in jail for having 2 joint butts.
My boomer mom is all up in her suburban town councils business because she's afraid there is going to be a "marijuana shop" that goes in across the highway from her neighborhood in the strip mall that's being developed.
Anti-drug propaganda really did a number on that generation
It's fascinating how some of that generation have turned out. My parents are in their mid 70's and are on an edibles kick right now since they "are to old to be smoking". Their neighbor is the same age and has bought into the whole war on drugs and just about every other bit of propaganda authoritarians have put out in the last 50 years. The neighbor is a good source of daily excitement and stories that my parents like to tell us when we see them.
The really fucked up part about that situation is the "strip mall across the highway from her neighborhood" part.
Car-dependent urban design has really done a number on every generation since the Silent Generation.
The war on drugs eh? What a farce.
Drugs definitely won.
Pretty sure everyone but the drug dealers and police unions lost.
10 FUCKING YEARS for possession of marijuana??!?!
I know!
What a light sentence.
Fuckin Reagan.
This is the wildest wikipedia article I've ever seen thanks for posting.
may i introduce you to this man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshie_Shiratori?useskin=vector, man escaped prison 4 times and the last time was from a room designed to solely keep him in prison
Man that wiki page is a trip, what a crazy life.
Yeah, I kept saying the same thing to myself. This dude lived 100 lives.
Quite a cool story!
Now that's a crazy ass life.
And some say potheads never accomplish anything.
"His website team, led by Chris Graves, updated his website on a daily basis as a proto-blog. The website noted his daily intake of various illicit and legal chemical substances, with a predilection for nitrous oxide, LSD and other psychedelic drugs. He was also noted for his trademark "Leary Biscuit", a cannabis edible consisting of a snack cracker with cheese and a small marijuana bud, briefly microwaved."
A man of vision.
Wondering if his test was eventually retracted from legal usage?
Leary and Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy did a series of debates.
Crazy