LSD
Reportage & memoirThe long pause
Hofmann made LSD, then watched what the world did with it. His own account.
Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD - The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
Reportage & memoirThe long pauseHistory, culture & policy
What it is
Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain trace LSD through American public life, from CIA interrogation research in the 1950s, through the counterculture, to the drug policy that followed. Their compound is LSD. The political story they tell is the one that put both LSD and psilocybin in Schedule I, which makes the book useful background to the legal record this publication keeps. This is investigative journalism, and the intelligence chapters rest in part on documents released under freedom of information law.
The record
- Author
- Martin A. Lee, Bruce Shlain
- Published
- 1985
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- ISBN
- 9780802130624
- Kind
- Reportage & memoir
- Subject
- History, culture & policy
- Era
- The long pause
- Links checked
- 04 Sep 2026, and they resolved.
Where to find it
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