What Leary took down with him was....

[Kire]

...the central illlusion of a whole lifestyle that he helped create. A generation of permanant cripples who never understood the mystic fallacy of the acid culture a desperate assumption that somebody or at least some force, was tending the light at the end of the tunnel. There was only one road back to L.A. - Route 15. Then onto the Hollywood Freeway, into obscurity. Just another freak, in the freak kingdom.