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UC-Santa Cruz: Historian Benjamin Breen Explores the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science in Acclaimed New Book, Tripping On Utopia
January 19, 2024
SANTA CRUZ, California, Jan. 19 -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus issued the following news on Jan. 18, 2024:

By Dan White

Famed anthropologist Margaret Mead and her third husband Gregory Bateson believed that LSD and other psychedelic substances could enlighten the world and help save humanity from nuclear conflagration during the Cold War.

But their dreams about the potentials of psychedelic research collided with seamier realities, inclu . . .

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