When a small bottle arrives in her mailbox de ''Lewis Carroll'', Ayelet Waldman est at rock bottom. Her mood storms have become unbearable; she has tried almost every possible medication; her husband et children sont suffering avec her. So she opens le vial, puts two drops on her tongue et joins an underground but increasingly vocal group de scientists et citizens who sont successfully using therapeutic microdoses de LSD. As Waldman charts her expérience over le cours de a month - bursts de productivity, sleepless nights, a newfound sense de equality - she also explores le history et mythology de LSD, le groundbreaking recherche on le drug et le Byzantine policies cela control cela.

Drawing on her expérience as a federal public defender et a mother de teenagers, as well as her recherche into le therapeutic value de psychedelics, Waldman has produced a book cela est eye-opening, often hilarious, et utterly captivating.