Includes some great early articles on the most powerful mind-changing chemical in history by counter-culture heroes Aldous Huxley, William Burroughs, Humphry Osmond, Timothy Leary and Alan Watts. This book appeared at a time when it seemed we might actually use empirical science to evolve tolerant and educated legal policies and avert some of the ugly ignorance witnessed over the last forty years of reactive culture wars. The book's editor, David Solomon, was later busted for distribution of LSD and did a stint in British prisons.