(Ebook) Psychoactive Drugs. Four Classic Texts (1976-1982) by Michael Starks ISBN 9781532328824, 1532328826

(Ebook) Psychoactive Drugs. Four Classic Texts (1976-1982) by Michael Starks ISBN 9781532328824, 1532328826

These books were written some 40 years ago, when the world was relatively simple. No cel phones, no internet, no PC's, no home VCR, CD or DVD--not even decent copy machines most places. As the psychedelic 60's helped my mind to expand far beyond the physiology department at Berkeley, I immersed myself in media of all kinds and was especially fascinated by early films dealing with psychoactive drugs. It was laborious in the extreme to do library research and I spent thousands of hours in the Berkeley University Library poring through books. I saw many of the films in the film book on late night television and kept notes on file cards. I was especially interested in the older films and they were the hardest to find info about and often impossible to see--many had vanished. I purchased some from catalogs of 16mm films.I researched many different topics simultaneously and the wrote these four books which were quite popular and even groundbreaking at the time. Even now they are in print but since they are also widely available free on the net I decided to collect them together and provide a preface. I hope they are of use to historians of the subjects.