Bob Fried of WBAI in New York City leads a 1996 panel discussion with Allen Ginsberg and various experts on how psychedelics, halluncinogens and other related drugs are treated in contemporary society, including the use and abuse of such drugs. Panelists are Dr. Donald B. Luria from the New York County Medical Society Subcommittee on Narcotics, Dr. Ralph Metzner, editor of the Psychedelic Review and the poet Allen Ginsberg.