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 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.