Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science”
Explore 1 Public acceptance of psychedelics was surprisingly widespread during the 1950s When I began researching Tripping on Utopia in 2018, I was aware that many midcentury scientists and psychiatrists had shown a keen interest in the promise of psychedelics. But what I didn’t realize was how remarkably broad-based this interest was. As I …