Jay Stevens
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Jay Karl Stevens (November 11, 1953 – February 19, 2025) was a freelance writer and social historian. Stevens was born and raised into a family of farmers in Springfield, Vermont. He attended school there as a child and then Kimball Union Academy in New Hampshire, going on to the University of Vermont after graduation.
He is the author of Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream (1987), which has been described as a "classic" by historian David Farber and "the quintessential work on the history of LSD in America" by Kristin Robinson. Historian of science and medicine Benjamin Breen also recommends the book for those wishing to learn more about the history of LSD.
Stevens is also the co-author of Drumming at the Edge of Magic with Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart and ethnomusicologist Fredric Lieberman. He founded Applied Orphics, a digital marketing and distribution company, and Rap Lab, a program bringing at-risk teenagers and professional musicians and poets together. Prior to his death, he was living at his family farm in Weathersfield Bow, Vermont, where he produced maple syrup.
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