Not to suggest that the release of LSD into public black markets was intentional, but there are certainly many questions as to how the drug leaked out, as well as the complex 'recipes' which allowed drug dealers to create the drug for their own distribution.  The 'Summer of Love' of 1967 on our West Coast would perhaps have had a more drastic impact on American culture if not for the regrettable fact that LSD was a primary fuel source of those young persons who made up the contingent of 'hippies', a demographic group that was apparently more competent and effective prior to the easy access to hallucinogenic substances.  The effects of even a few experiences with LSD or other powerful synthetics can impair an individual's ability to be supremely productive as an activist within society on any consistent basis.