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Jansen achieves a good blend of informative writing and anecodote to overview the history of the development and use of this drug. He artfully describes the pharmaceutical and counter-culture contexts in which it became prominent, its effects, and its health consequences. Refreshingly, he doesn't moralise about the use of recreational drugs. Particularly memorable were accounts of two of the prominent characters in the history of "psychedelic" ketamine use: John Lilly, and Marcia Moore. There is
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