From Psychiatric Clinics to Magical Center: LSD in the Netherlands

Dutch psychedelic history had its own characteristics. In psychiatry, LSD therapy was used for the management of the traumas of World War II; in Dutch society, overlapping groups of activists and psychedelics users were involved in a playful transformation of society into a “Magical Center”; and in economics, the Netherlands became a key player in the illegal production and distribution of LSD worldwide.