Part 1: Ancient potions. The Oracle of Delphi was huffing fumes ; Pharoah Ramesses II wanted ganja ; Alexander the Great was a sloppy drunk ; Qin Shi Huangdi's recipe for immortality backfired ; St. John the Revelator was tripping on shrooms ; Marcus Aurelius's sleepy-time medicine
Part 2: Medieval highs. The Hashashin, the devout killer potheads ; William Shakespeare was a stoner
Part 3: Colonial chaos. George Washington's terrible teeth ; Andrew Jackson was a mean, crazy, racist, murderous drunk ; Andrew Johnson was blackout drunk
Part 4: Victorian decadence. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's trip wore off ; Queen Victoria was the biggest drug dealer of all time ; The pope who loved cocaine wine ; Friedrich Nietzsche thought he was Jesus ; Vincent van Gogh ate yellow paint ; Sigmund Freud was wrong about cocaine
Part 5: Wartime fogginess. Adolf Hitler was tweaked out of his mind ; Bill W. took LSD to see God ; Jean-Paul Sartre's really long bad trip ; Richard Nixon wanted to nuke everyone ; John F. Kennedy was on all sorts of drugs ; Audie Murphy was the real-life Captain America
Part 6: Showbiz blues. Howard Hughes, the drug-addled billionaire ; Judy Garland was drugged by grown-ups ; Andy Warhol was really fond of meth ; Philip K. Dick wrote amphetamine-fueled science fiction ; Johnny Cash was battling demons ; Elvis Presley was a narc
Part 7: Counterculture mayhem. Albert Hofmann invented LSD by accident ; Aldous Huxley's shortcut to enlightenment ; How the CIA accidentally created the Unabomber ; Ken Kesey and the electric Kool-Aid acid test ; Timothy Leary was the most dangerous man in America ; Alexander Shulgin, the DEA employee who invented 230 psychedelics ; Sgt. Pothead's loaded hard-drug band (a.k.a. the Beatles)
Part 8: Modern mystics. Carl Sagan got astronomically high ; Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter while tripping on acid ; John McAfee was the world's biggest troll ; Steve Jobs loved LSD and soaking his feet in the toilet.
