Psychedelics

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Ronin Publishing, May 1, 2009 - Social Science - 144 pages
Provides a framework for understanding the enormous amount of information available on psychoactive substances. Stafford relays the history, botany, chemistry, physical and mental effects, forms, sources, and preparations of LSD—the most potent and representative of class of drugs called psychedelics. Stafford claims that psychedelics offer surprising benefits to society and he explores the record of promising studies that were truncated in the 1960s, along with a commentary of developments since that time.
 

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INTRODUCTIONS
9
PSYCHEDELIC ROOTS
21
ERGOT DISCOVERED
27
HOFMANN DISCOVERS LSD
34
MILITARY INVOLVED
41
5 POP CULTURE
48
BIRTH OF THE COUNTERCULTURE
60
HYSTERIA
67
LSD RESEARCH
122
PERSONAL GROWTH
126
ACID THERAPY
130
CREATIVITY
138
BEYOND LSD
145
PLANT SOURCES
151
PURITY TESTS
160
TRENDS the mysterious powers of these substances
163

TRIPPING
75
EXPANDED CONSCIOUSNESS
85
TRIP GUIDES
93
CHEMISTRY
102
THE MIND
109
PSYCHOTHERAPY
117
PROFILES
172
INDEX
183
BOOKS OF INTEREST
188
PETER STAFFORD
191
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