This article appears to be a misleading write-up of the "California: Designing Freedom" exhibit, the central premise of which is that "California has pioneered tools of personal liberation, from LSD to surfboards and iPhones."

That being said, there is an actual causal relationship between LSD and HyperCard: "Inspired by a mind-expanding LSD journey in 1985, I designed the HyperCard authoring system that enabled non-programmers to make their own interactive media."¹ — Bill Atkinson

For more, see the Mondo 2000 article, "The Psychedelic Inspiration For Hypercard".²

¹ https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...

² http://www.mondo2000.com/2018/06/18/the-inspiration-for-hype...