Word: alpert
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...expert on psilocybin and other "consciousness expanding" drugs (LSD, mescaline) yesterday criticized Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert for raising a "false issue of scientific or academic freedom" in their charges that research on these drugs is being blocked at Harvard and other universities...
However Leary and Alpert did not join Dean Monro in warning undergraduates to steer clear of the drugs. When asked whether he thought Monro's warning was out of place, Leary stated: "We understand Dean Monro's desire to pacify worries about undergraduate activity, but we believe he is ill-informed about the effects of these drugs...
Leary said that he and Alpert were continuing their psilocybin investigations, under medical supervision, with their own independent research association...
...hope," said Alpert, "to establish guidelines to make us and the rest of the University comfortable about the project...
...Alpert commented that because he and Leary had not planned much research using the drug this spring, the controversy in the Center did not seriously delay their work. Although the two have continued using psilocybin in prisons, they have been unable to work with the drugs in University research since colleagues first questioned the administration, attitude, and usefulness of the project in March. Since then, the UHS has taken possession of most of the pills...