I don't care what they smoked themselves, but does anyone here know by chance, or at least is able to estimate, how many people (especially children) did the Beatles order to take drugs? And how many of them obeyed?

Yuyutsu,
They didn’t order anyone to do anything but by their example they influenced the mentally vulnerable, read fans, not all of course but a number, the order of magnitude of which we will never know; but drug pushers they certainly were by example.

Hi Issy,

You said you were a 'flower child' living in a hippy commune eating lentals and smokeing dope all day, making free love at night. Do you listen to 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds' LSD for short?

Well well, one (but not the only) reason they could not influence me to take drugs was because my English was not good enough at the time to understand them. Let alone thinking of these words as initials for a chemical substance, I knew the word 'Sky', I don't think I new 'Diamonds', nor that 'Lucy' was a girl's name, actually I thought that 'Diamonds' could be the name of a boy, and from the structure of the sentence I must have thought that 'Lucy' was some verb...

As the song goes, "old Satan's mad and I am glad [keep away from the Eden tree] - he lost the soul he thought he had [keep away from the Eden tree]"

Herr Goebbels,
More lies, as usual.