Many years later, Owsley explained the Dead’s fairly ingenious plan to get Graham high by saying, “Nobody injected anything. We had been trying to hit him for years and we knew he wouldn’t touch anything that was opened or in a cup. He had to open his own. We saw what kind of soda he liked and made sure that every can he was likely to find was already fixed. “When you picked up a soft drink out of a cooler, it was always covered with beads of condensation. So a drop or two was put on the lid of every can in the room. They were all still sealed. The drop was in the little ridge around the
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