Hallucinogens Paperback by Charles S. Grob

Product Details

• Publisher: Tarcher (2002-07-08)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 320 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781585421664
• Item Weight: 362.88 grams
• Dimensions: 23.37 x 15.47 x 2.29 cm

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.

About the Author

 Charles S. Grob, M.D., is a professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine.