Acid Dreams - The Complete Social History of LSD, the CIA, the Sixties & Beyond

I personally have little, if no interest directly in man made chemical substances such as LSD, but, when you add the CIA to the topic, things get quite interesting. Enjoy. ~ Dunamis

Acid Dreams - The Complete Social History of LSD, The CIA, the Sixties and Beyond (1994)
By Martin A. Lee

From Publishers Weekly
This fascinating study examines how the CIA tested LSD on unwitting residents of Greenwich Village and San Francisco. Of particular interest are profiles of Timothy Leary, LSD chemist Ronald Stark and others.
(Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.)

From Amazon
Acid Dreams is the complete social history of LSD and the counterculture it helped to define in the sixties. Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain's exhaustively researched and astonishing account-part of it gleaned from secret government files-tells how the CIA became obsessed with LSD as an espionage weapon during the early l950s and launched a massive covert research program, in which countless unwitting citizens were used as guinea pigs.

Though the CIA was intent on keeping the drug to itself, it ultimately couldn't prevent it from spreading into the popular culture; here LSD had a profound impact and helped spawn a political and social upheaval that changed the face of America. From the clandestine operations of the government to the escapades of Timothy Leary, Abbie Hoffman, Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, Allen Ginsberg, and many others, Acid Dreams provides an important and entertaining account that goes to the heart of a turbulent period in our history.

What the critics say
"Engaging throughout . . . at once entertaining and disturbing."
- Andrew Weil, M.D., The Nation -

"Marvelously detailed . . . loaded with startling revelations."
- Los Angeles Daily News -

"An engrossing account of a period... when a tiny psychoactive molecule affected every aspect of Western life."
- William S. Burroughs -

"An important historical synthesis of the spread and effects of a drug that served as a central metaphor for an era."
- John Sayles -

# Paperback: 384 pages
# Publisher: Grove Press; Revised edition (January 21, 1994)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0802130623
# ISBN-13: 978-0802130624

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