A Return Trip to Timothy Leary’s Psychedelic, Day-Glo Zihuatanejo, Mexico

“Even with the rise of interest in therapeutic psychedelic drugs, most visitors in Zihuatanejo come for sun and sand, whale watching and to participate in the popular baby sea turtle releases. They are likely unaware of resort city’s storied past with Leary and his 1960s experiments in consciousness expansion…” Nina Burleigh checks out Hotel Catalina Beach Resort on the Pacific Coast in Zihuatanejo, Mexico— the historic site of the first known Western psychedelic retreat in the summers of 1962 and 1963.

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A Return Trip to Timothy Leary’s Psychedelic, Day-Glo Zihuatanejo, Mexico | Via NYTimesA Return Trip to Timothy Leary’s Psychedelic, Day-Glo Mexico—Via NYTimes