Out of print for more than half a century LSD A Journey into the Asked the Answered and the Unknown is now available in a commemorative edition with candid commentary a new introduction by counterculture journalist Jessica Hundley and a photographic portrait of a generation.In the midst of a raging national controversy around the indiscriminate use of LSD two authorities Richard Alpert PhD AKA Ram Dass and psychoanalyst Sidney Cohen MD amp8211 spoke out on the dangers merits legal regulations and control of the revolutionary psychedelic drug. Their book was illustrated with a groundbreaking photo essay by journalist Lawrence Schiller whose cover story for Life magazine introduced America to the sweeping new LSD epidemic and was a precursor to the federal criminalization of the drug.As the first national photojournalist to capture the American acid scene from the inside Schiller began with a single in Berkeley California and built a large network of young receptive subjects who allowed him to document their private experiences with LSD. At first his s were few and difficult. Many of them were afraid and said no. There were others however who were trying to exercise their rebellion amp8220and someamp8230had a sort of missionary quality. They not only wanted to tell about their experiences they seemed as though they had to.amp8221Schillers reporting expanded to include Timothy Leary then on trial in Laredo Texas and the Merry Pranksters who stopped by his studio for stroboscopic photos after the Hollywood Acid Test. The deeper he went into the story the more questions he had. Questions like amp8220Is the LSD state reality or illusionamp8221 and amp8220Can you understandamp8230without having had amp8220the experienceamp8221 Figuring others did as well he asked Alpert and Cohen to answer them for readersfrom their two opposing points of view. The unexpected result is perhaps one of the most deeply informative documents on psychedelics ever published. It sold close to a