Peter Stafford

Peter Stafford (born 1939, Oakland, California; died July 20, 2007, Santa Cruz, California) was an American writer and author of the Psychedelics Encyclopedia (ISBN 0-914171-51-8). Stafford is also co-author with Bonnie Golightly of LSD: The Problem-solving Psychedelic, as well as other books on psychedics. He was the editor of Crawdaddy! from 1969 to 1970. Stafford attended Reed College and graduated from the University of Washington.

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In 1961 while at Reed College, Stafford experimented with the Native American sacred cactus Peyote. He moved to the East Village in New York in 1964, where he spent the next 10 years.

In 1974, Stafford moved to Santa Cruz, California, with the intention of reconnecting with his father, whom he had not seen since early childhood.

Stafford died on July 20, 2007, apparently from a complete heart block and injuries sustained falling from a ladder in his home.[1]

Selected works

• LSD in Action. (1969). ISBN 0-283-35511-5
• Psychedelic Baby Reaches Puberty. (1971). [2]
• Psychedelic Encyclopedia'. (1993). ISBN 978-0914171515