Poet Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) attended the first Acid Test organized by Ken Kesey (1935-2001) on 27 November 1965. At the Acid Test on 12 February 1966, Wavy Gravy (b. 1936) dubbed the punch "electric Kool-Aid", inspiring the title of "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" (1968), by Tom Wolfe (1930-2018). Kool-Aid (actually Flavor-Aid) was laced with cyanide at the Jonestown Massacre in Guyana on 18 November 1978. The first use of "to drink the Kool-Aid" in the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1981: "We are all being put in the place of the citizens of Jonestown, being told by our leaders to drink the Kool Aid of nuclear power"—written by Ginsberg. (Andrew Shields, #111words, 26 March 2026)