Psychedelics: The Uses and Implications of Hallucinogenic Drugs

This book is a broad and serious inquiry into this much-discussed topic. It will enlighten and surprise the uninitiated as well as the frequent user. It includes first-hand reports of the nature of the experience; recent scientific theories; the use of psychedelics in primitive and non-western cultures; and the sociology of drugs in our own society. There are also sections on the potential creative uses of psychedelics from the enhancement of religious experience to the treatment of alcoholics and the design of mental hospitals. The contributors include noted scientists psychologists sociologists and religious leaders. All of the help to throw some light on a subject which in spite of the interest it generates has produced a great deal of mis-information. Government restrictions have in fact brought the progress of much-needed research almost ot a hald. Psychedelics is a plea for--and an invitation to--enlightenment.