Seemed to be a bit too pro-LSD

No, I disagree. I think that the first two episodes ("Break on Through" and "Feed Your Head") showed how the use of LSD and other psychedelic substances influenced everything. The counterculture of the 60's beleived in the good of LSD. Break on Through" and "Feed Your Head" shows us what the 60's counterculture beleived in at the time.

In the end of "Feed Your Head" they talked about Charles Manson, and how he used LSD to mold people into killers. These chemicals that were supposed to open the mind and create community were used for pure evil.

In "Feed Your Head" Ray Manzarek said it best about LSD, "There's a maddness in human beings...and sometimes LSD will bring that out. And what we learned is that LSD isn't the ultimate panacea."

[deleted]

Millions more people become sick or die as a result of alcohol than LSD or other illicit drugs. I doubt anybody here would argue that "Barfly" or even many episodes of "The Simpsons" are "pro-alcohol." LSD was legal until 1966, some people suffered irreparable damage after one trip, some people died, some people like Syd Barret destroyed themselves by eating acid tabs like candy. Millions more experimented with LSD and suffered no ill effects. And as for the punks, they may not have needed drugs to gain insight but a lot of them loved heroin, a highly addictive and far more toxic drug. I don't think "The Drug Years" took a "pro" stance on anything, just gave a pretty clear picture of which way American popular culture was headed at that time.

You don't need alcohol or caffeine either. Nor do you "need" music or art for that matter. If everyone only sought the bare necessities for survival, then we'd all be living in subsistence and there would be little joy in life.

Seems like some people are always upset whenever an illegal drug isn't portrayed as the scourge on the human race. If you don't like certain drugs, don't take them. I don't like alcohol, so I don't drink. But I don't have a problem with people who like to drink socially/responsibly. Nor do I feel the need to see alcohol demonized in the media.

It's sad that some people are actually so swept up in the "War on Drugs" rhetoric that they can't stand seeing the truth being told. It's that kind of irrational hatred that caused people like Billie Holiday to be persecuted for their drug use. It's a good thing drug prohibition wasn't around in the 1700's or Benjamin Franklin would have been thrown in jail for using Opium.

Btw, Nancy Reagan was a pill-popping hypocrite. Her drugs of choice just happened to be prescription tranquilizers like benzodiazepines.