This belief was only strengthened in 1967 with Jefferson Airplane’s release of the psychedelic song, White Rabbit, in which the lyrics include “One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small / And the ones that mother gives you, don’t do anything at all”.^[14] The song proved enormously popular and inspired several artists to pursue the link between Alice and recreational drugs, such that Carrol’s character was essentially the mascot of drug culture in the 1960s.^[14] So strong was the association that author Scott Parker points out that Alice had become a slang term for LSD.

The novel’s weird whimsy has led many to question whether Carroll was under the influence while writing the text, and despite the drug-driven elements of the narrative, no evidence has been found to support the claim.