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Mike Jay

Mike Jay

Mike Jay’s books include Emperors of Dreams: Drugs in the Nineteenth Century, This Way Madness Lies: The Asylum and Beyond, and Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic. His most recent book, Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, was published in paperback in April. (May 2024)

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