Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD, the CIA, the Sixties and Beyond
- ISBN-10
- 0330484818
- ISBN-13
- 9780330484817
- Series
- Acid Dreams
- Category
- Drug abuse
- Pages
- 345
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Authors
- Martin A. Lee, Bruce Shlain
Description
A social history of LSD and the counterculture it helped to define in the Sixties. This 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 how the drug then spread into the popular culture.
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Other editions
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- 2007-12-01
- 384 pages
- Ebook
- Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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