Peter Stafford 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 psychedelics. He was the editor of Crawdaddy!

Crawdaddy!

Crawdaddy! was the first U.S. magazine of rock and roll music criticism. Created in 1966 by college student Paul Williams in response to the increasing sophistication and cultural influence of popular music, Crawdaddy! was self-described as "the first magazine to take rock and roll...

 from 1969 to 1970. Stafford attended Reed College

Reed College

Reed College is a private, independent, liberal arts college located in southeast Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus located in Portland's Eastmoreland neighborhood, featuring architecture based on the Tudor-Gothic style, and a forested canyon wilderness...

 and graduated from the University of Washington

University of Washington

University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...

.

Stafford was born in Oakland, California

Oakland, California

Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...

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

Santa Cruz, California

Santa Cruz is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California in the US. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, Santa Cruz had a total population of 59,946...

, apparently from a complete heart block and injuries sustained falling from a ladder in his home.http://www.bruceeisner.com/new_culture/2007/07/peter-stafford-.html

Selected works

• LSD in Action. (1969). ISBN 0-283-35511-5
• Psychedelic Baby Reaches Puberty. (1971). http://www.erowid.org/library/books/psychedelic_baby.shtml
• Psychedelic Encyclopedia'. (1993). ISBN 978-0914171515

External links

• LSD: The Problem-Solving Psychedelic - Drug Library
• Psychedelics Encyclopedia - Erowid reviews
• Peter Stafford Papers (ca. 1960-1971)- Columbia University Libraries
• Psychedelics 101 - Peter's website