Acid: The Secret History of Lsd

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Summary: Trippy
Review: Steamshovel Press editor Kenn Thomas wrote the foreword to this new, updated and US-marketed edition of David Black's 1997 history. The angle on psychedelic history taken by Black that makes the volume unique is an expanded look at the life of Ronald Stark, a transnational doper that helped usher the burgeoning interest in LSD into the hands of the mafia. It also connects it all up to the assassination of Aldo Moro in Italy, and hence to the current political climate (the "strategy of tension", against not just psychedelic libertarians but anyone critical of the status quo. This new edition includes as an appendix "An Open Letter from the Friends of Timothy Leary", circulated after the FBI tried to smear Leary with selected release of FOIPA files, plus another appendix on the "Manson-Stark Conspiracy Theory."