{"product_id":"wonder-drug-lsd-in-the-land-of-living-skies-9781771135597","title":"Wonder Drug: LSD in the Land of Living Skies","description":"\u003cp\u003eCould it be that the most remote frontiers of twenty-first-century exploration lie inside the human mind? Illustrated in kaleidoscopic full colour, \u003cem\u003eWonder Drug\u003c\/em\u003e is the graphic history of a controversial and little-known medical research project carried out in the Canadian prairies--one that championed LSD as a way to model schizophrenia and cure ailments from alcoholism to depression.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning the decades from the 1950s to present day, this captivating story follows Anglo-Canadian psychiatrist Dr. Humphry Osmond down the rabbit hole of psychedelic research, conducted both in the lab and in his living room. Lurching from dazzling imagery to fanged delusions, and studded with a cast of radical personalities such as Aldous Huxley, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, and Kay Parley, \u003cem\u003eWonder Drug\u003c\/em\u003e is a trip like no other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Osmond and his colleagues grapple with professional isolation, a growing moral panic, and the burgeoning War on Drugs, their growing body of findings are maligned and misunderstood--but the promise of pharmapolitical revolution is still on the horizon, and the radical research in Weyburn, Saskatchewan may yet be realized.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoldring, Hugh D. a.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eHugh Goldring is a writer from Ottawa, Ontario, Algonquin territory. As one half of Petroglyph Studios, he works full time writing comics with social justice themes in partnership with scholars, unions, activists and NGOs. He is part of the Ad Astra Comix publishing collective which published his first graphic novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Beast: Making a Living on a Dying Planet\u003c\/em\u003e. He was active in the Occupy movement and has been involved in several Food Not Bombs chapters. He has spent the last 5 years traveling across the United States, visiting with anti-fascists, migrant rights activists and anti-capitalists, trying vainly to make sense of it all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBurton, Nicole Marie:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003enicole marie burton is a comic artist and children's book illustrator living in Ottawa, Ontario. Her published works include \u003cem\u003eThe Boy Who Walked Backwards, The Beast: Making a Living on a Dying Planet, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eEnemy Alien: A True Story of Life Behind Barbed Wire, \u003c\/em\u003e and Coal Mountain, part of the comics anthology \u003cem\u003eDrawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working Class Struggle. \u003c\/em\u003eShe is a founding member of the Ad Astra Comix publishing collective.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDyck, Erika:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eErika Dyck is a Canadian historian. She is a professor of history and Canada Research Chair in the History of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. In 2014, she was inducted to the New College of Scholars, Artists and Scientists at the Royal Society of Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Between the Lines","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50449629970706,"sku":"9781771135597","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f7777e15-4531-400e-9927-f7112b3d2806.jpg?v=1729746077","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/wonder-drug-lsd-in-the-land-of-living-skies-9781771135597","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}