Word: alpert
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...Faculty committee will be named this week to "advise and oversee" future research in psilocybin, according to Richard Alpert, assistant professor of Clinical Psychology. His work with the consciousness-expanding drug was sharply criticized by his colleagues two months...
State officials have already agreed to let the psilocybin research continue and have directed only that a physician be present to administer the drug. He need not remain for the rest of the experiment. Previously, Alpert and his partner, Timothy Leary, lecturer on, Clinical Psychology, maintained that it was sufficient to have a physician on call during the experiments...
...Alpert said last week that he expects to announce the members of the committee in a few days. He, Dr. John P. Spiegel, associate clinical professor of Psychiatry, and other members of the Center probably will serve on the committee along with representatives from the Health Services and other areas of the Faculty...
Medical supervision is necessary because psilocybin is still classified as an "unknown" drug and thus falls under the provisions of the Commonwealth's harmful drug law. Alpert and Leary are attempting to gather evidence that psilocybin is not dangerous...
State investigators will drop the issue of the legality of psilocybin research carried on by Alpert and Leary without direct medical supervision for the past two years...