Berlin 1945. Following the fall of the Third Reich, drug use is rampant throughout the city. Arthur J. Giuliani of the nascent Federal Bureau of Narcotics is tasked with learning about the Nazis' anti-drug laws. Harvard professor Dr. Henry Beecher began work with the US government to uncover the research behind the Nazis psychedelics program. Revealing the close relationship and hidden connections between the Nazis and the early days of drugs in America, Ohler shares how this secret history held back therapeutic research of psychedelic drugs for decades and eventually became part of the foundation of America's War on Drugs.