Award Winning Novelist And Screenwriter Norman Ohler Releases Tripped

In TRIPPED: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age (Mariner Books; on sale April 9), Norman Ohler, New York Times bestselling author of Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich, returns with a provocative new history of drugs and postwar America, exposing the hidden connections between the Nazis and the early days of drugs in the United States. Based on extensive archival research on both sides of the Atlantic, TRIPPED examines how fascist experiments into psychedelics covertly influenced CIA research and secretly shaped America’s War on Drugs. As Ohler reveals, “When most people think of LSD, they don’t think of the Nazis, and yet that unseen hand played a role in framing our laws around this class of drug and in limiting our ability to use psychedelics for medical research.” In fact, Ohler was inspired to explore this topic as a result of his own mother’s medical condition. His father wanted to know why he couldn’t just get LSD at the pharmacy for his wife if it was supposed to help treat her Alzheimer’s disease. It was this question-why can’t patients in need of psychedelic therapy access it?-that launched Ohler on his investigation for TRIPPED. Unlike cannabis which is on the precipice of global legalization, psychedelic substances containing promising healing potential are still bound up with taboos. With TRIPPED, Ohler aims to alleviate the fear and disinformation around these drugs by educating readers on the untold story behind them.

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