Long before touching down in San Francisco, LSD was primed to become a psychiatric wonder drug in Saskatoon

All summers have their own record album, or at least they used to, and in 1967 the record that changed everything was simply called The Doors. I first heard it on a weekend in July when, with some friends, I drove to the Lake of the Woods district east of Winnipeg, climbed into a cramped tin boat with about ten people, blundered past nameless islands in the dark, and somehow found the cottage that someone's parents had entrusted to their son for the weekend. ("Just use your judgment, dear.")

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