Acid Dreams
The Complete Social History of LSD
by Martin A. Lee
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appears in Psychedelics, Politics, and Psychology.
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 1950s and launched a massive cov...
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