Editing Donovan (section)

====Arrest====
On 10{{nbsp}}June 1966,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hitchens |first1=Peter |author1-link=Peter Hitchens |title=The War We Never Fought: The British Establishment's Surrender to Drugs |date=2012 |publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]] |location=London |isbn=978-1-4411-7331-7 |page=102 |url=https://archive.org/details/warweneverfought0000hitc |url-access=registration |via=the [[Internet Archive]]}}</ref> Donovan became the first high-profile British pop star to be arrested for possession of [[cannabis (drug)|cannabis]].<ref name="Hurdy Gurdy Man"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Shea |first1=Stuart |last2=Rodriguez |first2=Robert |title=Fab Four FAQ: Everything Left to Know About the Beatles{{nbsp}}... and More! |date=2007 |publisher=[[Hal Leonard]] |location=New York City |page=67 |isbn=978-1-4234-2138-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/fabfourfaqeveryt0000shea/ |url-access=registration |via=the [[Internet Archive]]}}</ref> Donovan's drug use was mostly restricted to cannabis, with occasional use of [[LSD]] and [[mescaline]].{{citation needed|date=December 2019}} His LSD use is thought to be referenced indirectly in some of his lyrics.<ref name="Hurdy Gurdy Man"/> Public attention was drawn to his marijuana use by the TV documentary ''A Boy Called Donovan'' in early 1966, which showed the singer and friends smoking cannabis at a party thrown by the film crew. Donovan's arrest proved to be the first in a long series involving the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. In early 1967, Donovan was subject of an exposé in the ''[[News of the World]]''.<ref>{{cite book|title=Pop Music and the Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N-ViwZnnR3oC&q=donovan+1967+news+of+the+world&pg=PA117 |access-date=19 February 2013|isbn = 9781566399661|last1 = Jones|first1 = Steve|year = 2002| publisher=Temple University Press }}</ref>

According to Donovan, the article was based on an interview by an ex-girlfriend of his friend Gypsy Dave. The article was the first in a three-part series, ''Drugs & Pop Stars – Facts That Will Shock You.'' It was quickly shown some claims were false. A ''News of the World'' reporter claimed to have spent an evening with [[Mick Jagger]], who allegedly discussed his drug use and offered drugs to companions. He had mistaken Brian Jones for Jagger, and Jagger sued the newspaper for libel. Among other supposed revelations were claims that Donovan and stars including members of [[The Who]], [[Cream (band)|Cream]], [[The Rolling Stones]] and [[The Moody Blues]] regularly smoked marijuana, used other drugs and held parties where the recently banned hallucinogen LSD was used, specifically naming the Who's [[Pete Townshend]] and Cream's [[Ginger Baker]].

It emerged later that the ''News of the World'' reporters were passing information to the police. In the late 1990s, ''The Guardian'' said ''News of the World'' reporters had alerted police to the party at [[Keith Richards]]'s home, which was raided on 12 February 1967. Although Donovan's was not as sensational as the later arrests of Jagger and Richards, he was refused entry to the US until late 1967. He could not appear at the [[Monterey Pop Festival|Monterey International Pop Festival]] in June that year.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Season of "Season of the Witch"|date=16 May 2012 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/05/season-of-the-witch.html|publisher=www.newyorker.com|access-date=19 February 2013}}</ref>