Owsley describes his ice age theory and the principles he discovered behind it on his website and in fragmented talks and chats that all helped fuel the public image of him in his later years as a slightly whacked out acid crank–or genius, or both.

Once practically everything a person did was subject to Machiavellian limitations and description. Not only were you burned at the stake for your beliefs, but you couldn’t say much about just about anything–or assemble for any reason.

The Supreme Court has never ever examined the Constitutionality of outlawing anything like that, which is personal behaviour. Drugs can’t be controlled in any way by making them illegal. You want people to not use drugs? Well it seems pretty silly to make selling drugs the most lucrative job you can get.