Everything we know about drugs-from acid to epidemics to DARE and saliva-turns out to be wrong . . .

Stock
up on munchies, line up your water bottles, and join us for an evening with journalist Ryan Grim
as he takes us on a cross-country tour of illicit drug use in the
U.S.-from the agony (the huge DEA bust of an acid lab in an abandoned
missile silo in Kansas) to the ecstasy (hallucinogens at raves and
music festivals). Along the way, Grim discovers some surprising truths.
Did anti-drug campaigns actually encourage more drug use? Did acid
really disappear in the early 2000s? And did meth peak years ago?

Did
our Founding Fathers-or, better yet, their wives-get high just as much
as we do? Not since Eric Schlosser took readers underground to
marijuana's black market in Reefer Madness has a reporter trained such
a keen eye on drugs and culture. Grim weaves a story based on solid
reporting and wide-ranging research. This Is Your Country on Drugs
explores our country's long and twisted relationship with drugs-but
also asks readers to reflect on what it means to be an American.

Ryan
Grim is the senior congressional correspondent for Huffingtonpost.com, and has written and reported widely for Politico, Slate, Rolling Stone, Harper's, and the Washington Post.