Writers of all stripes often use drugs and alcohol to excess. Your argument that Kesey's contributions are invalidated by his drug use is irrelevant. I'm sure many authors that you respect and revere were also rampant drug users. Ayn Rand took amphetamines, F. Scott Fitzgerald was an alcoholic, Rush Limbaugh was addicted to opiates. I don't disagree that Kesey's contributions are vastly overstated ESPECIALLY in this community (who seem to continually forget that he lived in Springfield, not Eugene) but if you are going to attack a writer, attack him on the content of his writings, not his bloodstream.