CONTENTS

Epigraph

Introduction: Everything You’re About to Read Is True

PART ONE: THEN AND NOW

1. Madness on Two Continents

2. Schizophrenia, (Mis)Understood

3. Getting High in the 1970s

4. The First Real Proof

5. Medical Marijuana Wins

PART TWO: PROOF

6. A Round-the-World Search for Evidence

7. An Unlikely Theory Gains Traction

8. Study After Study After Study

9. Stories from the Front Lines

10. An Epidemic Arrives

PART THREE: THE RED TIDE

11. Laboratory Studies, Real-World Facts

12. Axes and Knives

13. One Bad Trip

14. Myths, Spreading

Epilogue: What Now?

Acknowledgments

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