Hallucinogens

It''s been forty years since Timothy Leary sat beside a swimming pool in Cuernavaca Mexico ingested several grams of the genus Stropharia cubensis and experienced a dazzling display of visions that led him to herald the dawning of a New Age. And yet from the counterculture movement of the 1960s through the War on Drugs to this very day the world at large has viewed hallucinogens not as a gift but as a threat to society. . In Hallucinogens Charles Grob surveys recent writings from such important thinkers as Terence McKenna Huston Smith and Andrew Weil illustrating that a reevaluation of the social worth of hallucinogens-used intelligently-is greatly in order.