A Return Trip: LSD Gets a Second Look




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Summary: “Turn on, tune in, drop out.” The author of this mid-1960s catchphrase, Timothy Leary—a Harvard professor-turned-enthusiast of psychedelic drugs—had high hopes for a world with hallucinogens. Leary even imagined that psychedelics like LSD and MDMA might help bring peace to a Vietnam War–weary world. The era was the heyday for hallucinogenic drug research conducted in […]