Timothy Leary: MDMA – the drug of the eighties

Sociologists know that every stage of human culture has its own art, its music, its own literature, its own sexual expression, its unique dialect and its own ceremonial drug. Take, for example, the eighties of this century in the United States. The style of that decade was shaped by Ronald Reagan, who brought back to us an inhibited sex life, a nostalgic aesthetic of the fifties, a series of witch-huntings (favorite sports of the moralizing majo…