"The LSD Story" is an episode of the American television series Dragnet that appeared on the NBC network on January 12, 1967.
A call comes into the Los Angeles Police Department juvenile narcotics division with a complaint of a person painted like an Indian and chewing the bark off a tree.
When detectives Joe Friday and Bill Gannon arrive at MacArthur Park, they find a boy with his head buried in the ground.
He continues to act erratically, so Captain Richey tells the detectives to bring the sugar cubes to the crime lab for analysis.
At the scientific investigation division, forensic chemist Ray Murray states that the drug is lysergic acid diethylamide tartrate, commonly known as LSD-25, that it was developed by a Swiss biochemist named Albert Hofmann, and it causes hallucinations, severe nausea along with aches and pains as well as anxiety and depression.
The father threatens to get his attorney involved and wants to take the boy home, so Captain Richey tells the detectives to book Benjie under the generic law; In danger of leading an idle, dissolute or immoral life, section 601 of the welfare and institutions code.
Two days later, Friday and Gannon join Sergeants Zappey and Carr in questioning two juveniles, Sandra Quillen and Edna Mae Dixon, who are high on LSD.
Sergeant Zappey relates that a bus on Sunset Strip will drive people up to Hollywood Hills to take the Acid Test for a dollar.
They get the address and find several people high on acid including a painter eating paint off a paintbrush who tells them Benjie left.
Friday calls in for officers to arrest the partygoers and finds out a drugstore has recently sold 3,000 empty pill capsules.
"At the inquest, the coroner's jury ruled that the 18-year-old suspect had administered himself an overdose of lysergic acid diethylamide in combination with various barbiturates and had thus taken his own life."
It was also cutting edge in dealing with the issue of LSD in 1967 ... For some, this represented a hard hit back against the emerging counterculture ... Friday re-emerged as the rock solid hero we needed in a time when everything was shifting.