Acid: A New Secret History Of LSD (Rev); Author: Black, David; Introduction: Thomas, Kenn; Paperback

Author: Black, David; Introduction: Thomas, Kenn
Rev Edition; Paperback; Facsimiles, Portraits
220 pages
Published: November 2001
Vision Paperbacks / Satin Publications Ltd
ISBN: 190125030X

Acid investigates the people who turned tripping into a popular recreational pastime. These people were connected to the CIA, the Weathermen, the Red Brigades and the Mafia.Now with morethan 25,000 words of new material, David Black brings hallucinogenic history back up-to-date. Acid reveals how scientists and how the CIA used acid for extensive mind control and sex experiments in their attempt to infiltrate counter-culture and radical groups. America's acid godfather was the shadowy and elusive Ron Stark. But who was he working for? And is he dead -- or alive?The secret history of LSD. Provides startling evidence that scientists, psychiatrists and the CIA helped promote LSD and make it part of popular culture. The secret history of LSD. Provides startling evidence that scientists, psychiatrists and the CIA helped promote LSD and make it part of popular culture.This text explores the emergence of LSD and chronicles how the drug found favour with many psychologists, including doctors at a mental institute who believed it could be used to treat mental illness.