Gallery: Inside the LSD Museum That the DEA Somehow Hasn't Torn to the Ground
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"Dr. D."
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"Bosch." This print shows 1,000 hits, originally issued in 2008.
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"Creatures."
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"Pink Flamingos." 40 hits from 1987.
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"Eye of Horus." Nine hits from 1982.
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"Green Jungle," from 1985.
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"Nose and Lips."
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"Surfing Shiva."
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"Tetragrammaton," a four-way hit that was originally issued in 1977.
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"World Cup."
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"Yes," from 1980. McCloud says this was the "pinnacle of blotter design inspired by the love of Yoko Ono and John \[Lennon\]."
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