Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered
A Drug Policy Classic Reprint from the Lindesmith Center
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385
Pub Date :
June 1997
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The Lindesmith Center
ISBN :
0964156857
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- Review by JF, 2001 Jun 24
After nearly 20 years, Grinspoon and Bakalar's Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered remains a valuable reference work on the subject of entheogenic drugs. After too long a period out of print, it has been republished by the Lindesmith Center, the first in a series of reprints of classic works on drug policy for which I, for one, have high hopes.. . . (more)
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Two of the world's leading experts on drug use provide the general reader with a comprehensive survey of psychedelic drugs and the scientific and intellectual issues they raise. The authors review the chemistry of psychedelics, their effects, and the history of human experience with them as well as assessing the potential value of the drugs.BLURBS #
An exceptionally well-balanced scientific discussion of every aspect of psychedelic drugs . . . It is a courageous book which simultaneously succeeds both for the popular and scientific audiences.-- Carl Sagan
Our social policy has all but ignored the extraordinary potential of psychedelic drugs for therapeutic use and inner development. This book has played and will continue to play a significant role in bringing the weight of scientific reason to bear on re-opening the research opportunities that are a necessary prerequisite for rectifying this situation.
-- Ram Dass
I don't recall ever seeing a single book treat in so scholarly yet lucid a fashion all the historical, social, and scientific aspects of drugs with accuracy, balance, and throughtful reflection.
-- Solomon H. Snyder, M.D.