New Series: Reefer Madness – 1895 to the Present – Introduction

“Medicine in the hands of the foolhardy is poison, as poison becomes medicine in the hands of the wise.”  – Giacomo Casanova, History of My Life, circa 1789 (1)  “The process of going outside, going beyond learned modes of experience (particularly the learned modes of space-time-verbalization-identity), is called ecstasis. The ecstatic experience. Ex-stasis. . . . Those who are concerned with conformity and adjustment like to call the ecstatic state psychotic.” – Timothy Leary, Richard…