Jay... believes that drug experimentation facilitated the birth of “the modern mind”. But there’s no rigorous analysis of what this might mean ... Nevertheless, the author’s central point, that the history of experimentation is more venerable and complex than many assume, is clearly right and not something you get taught at school.
Jay...demonstrate[s] that humanity’s relationship to mind-altering substances runs deep and long ... , Jay’s sharp and playful intervention places psychoactive substances at the center of both the fin de siècle psychological revolutions and the rise of the 20th century’s conservative scientific paradigm.
