Remembering "Mickey Mouse Acid" LSD stickers of the 1980s

By Ethan Persoff

One of the most effective urban legends of the 1980s, the "Blue Star Tattoo Legend," led to millions of grade school children across the world to be on the look-out for strangers handing out lick-and-stick fake tattoos of Mickey Mouse. The stickers were said to be laced with LSD. As a child, growing up in a suburb of Denver, this was my first introducti…