From the second half of the 1950s, Beat Generation writers like William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg[17] wrote about and took drugs, including cannabis and Benzedrine, raising awareness and helping to popularise their use.[18] In the same period Lysergic acid diethylamide, better known as LSD, or acid (at the time a legal drug), began to be used in the US and UK as an experimental