I picked up the High Times Reader thinking it would be interesting to read about a freer more adventurous time. This is a collection of mostly interviews and essays from the 60s and 70s. The understanding of addiction just wasn’t there. The total hedonism of experimentation and staying as high as you can all the time regardless of consequences is hard to grasp now and seems naive. The legal and cultural issues that occupied everyone then just seem tiresome and sad in the age of corona. ( )