Book “Un viaje alucinógeno” — Norman Ohler

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Berlin, 1945. Narcotics control officer Arthur J. Giuliani arrives in a city in ruins where more and more people are turning to psychoactive substances to survive. Norman Ohler returns with a provocative story about the birth of the psychedelic era after the Second World War.

Features

• Author: Norman Ohler (trans. Héctor Piquer Minguijón)
• Subject: history, Cold War, psychedelic drugs
• Pages: 272
• Publisher: Crítica
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 9788491996972

What it’s about

In 1943 Albert Hofmann accidentally discovered LSD at the Sandoz laboratories in Basel. Ohler investigates the often murky relationship between scientific research, governments and drug culture, with figures ranging from Hofmann to the CIA and from Richard Nixon to Elvis Presley, by way of Aldous Huxley, John Lennon and Timothy Leary.

Who it’s for

For those who enjoyed “El gran delirio” and want to follow the trail of drugs through recent history, and for readers interested in counterculture and the Cold War.

From the laboratories of Basel to the Cold War: the trip of LSD.