Psychedelic cults sought tax-exempt chartered religion status

Evidence

Leary also noted that his League for Spiritual Discovery would be seeking tax-free status and thus “play the American social game of other religions.” Ondine could scarcely have been more glib. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 926

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s counterculture-as-market theme and general claim about how scenes-institutionalize into recognized forms — ties to later chapters’ market analysis.