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Nature 455, 870 (16 October 2008) | doi:10.1038/455870a; Published online 15 October 2008

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BOOK REVIEWEDAlbion Dreaming: A Popular History of LSD in Britain

by Andy Roberts

Marshall Cavendish: 2008. 288 pp. £18.99

LSD — lysergic acid diethylamide — is an evocative acronym: it strikes a rational fear into governments and an irrational one into the media. Those who have taken the drug are in awe of its transformative power; to those who have not, it is a dangerous unknown.