Psychedelic Outlaws the tarnished crown has only occasionally come into

has only occasionally come into the public view

hardened pirates—a potent mix of low-life scallywags and a rare breed of gentlemen buccaneers—gather on a remote Caribbean island

and before he and his best friends went into the woods in the middle of the night

While dragons can be good friends

" —​Dolly Parton

Psychedelic Outlaws the tarnished crown has only occasionally come intoAward winning sociologist Joanna Kempner unearths how a group of ordinary people debilitated by excruciating pain developed their own medicine from home grown psilocybin mushrooms and fought for recognition in a broken medical system. A deeply absorbing examination of pain and perseverance an ode to self experimentation that manages to be as clear eyed as it is moving. Susannah Cahalan, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire and The