From the introduction: The 60’s were an era of pharmaceutical revolution that swept the campuses and progressive outposts of American culture (the revolution came to the streets two decades later with the rise of the crack epidemic). Before the war on drugs, emergent psychoactive chemicals like lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and dimethoxy-4-methylamphetime (DOM) were considered a possible road to self-knowledge or even enlightenment.