Berlin 1945. Following the fall of the Third Reich drug use-long kept under control by the
Nazis' strict anti-drug laws-is rampant throughout the city. Split into four sectors Berlin's
drug policies are being enforced under the individual jurisdictions of each allied power-the
Soviet Union Britain France and the US. In the American zone Arthur J. Giuliani of the
nascent Federal Bureau of Narcotics is tasked with learning about the Nazis' anti-drug laws and
bringing home anything that might prove useful to the United States. Five years later Harvard
professor Dr. Henry Beecher began work with the US government to uncover the research behind
the Nazis psychedelics program. Begun as an attempt to find a truth serum and experiment with
mind control the Nazi study initially involved mescaline but quickly expanded to include LSD.
Originally created for medical purposes by Swiss pharmaceutical Sandoz the Nazis coopted the
drug for their mind control military research-research that following the war the US was
desperate to acquire. This research birthed MKUltra the CIA's notorious brainwashing and
psychological torture program during the 1950s and 1960s and ultimately shaped US drug policy
regarding psychedelics for over half a century. Based on extensive archival research on both
sides of the Atlantic TRIPPED is a wild unconventional postwar history a spiritual sequel to
Norman Ohler's NEW YORK TIMES bestseller BLITZED. Revealing the close relationship and hidden
connections between the Nazis and the early days of drugs in America Ohler shares how this
secret history held back therapeutic research of psychedelic drugs for decades and eventually
became part of the foundation of America's War on Drugs--
