Contents

Preface: The Politics of Ecstasy

Introduction: Set and Setting

1. Playing the Science Game: Psychedelic Therapy Meets the Scientific Method

2. Take LSD and See: Acid-Dropping Scientists and the Credibility of Personal Experience

3. The Chemical Key: Unlocking the Black Box of the Psychedelic Experience

4. Who Controls Your Cortex? Moral Panic and the Politicization of Psychedelic Drugs

5. Turn On, Tune In, and Go to the Bake Sale: Tensions between Mainstream Science and the Psychedelic Counterculture

Conclusion: Why? Why Not? Some Final Words on the Ghost of Timothy Leary in the Psychedelic Renaissance

Acknowledgments

Appendix: Methods

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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