“No Direction Home” by Norman Spinrad—there’s very precise knowledge about psychoactive drugs, and people are high on calibrated doses of one thing or another all the time, starting in early childhood.
More Spinrad: Child of Fortune—this might be a utopia, but it’s a fairly loose one. Everyone spends a year wandering around selling bad jewelry to adults who remember their own wanderjahr while having adventures and finding out what they want to do.
“No Direction Home” by Norman Spinrad—there’s very precise knowledge about psychoactive drugs, and people are high on calibrated doses of one thing or another all the time, starting in early childhood.
More Spinrad: Child of Fortune—this might be a utopia, but it’s a fairly loose one. Everyone spends a year wandering around selling bad jewelry to adults who remember their own wanderjahr while having adventures and finding out what they want to do.