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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...
...Massachusetts Mental Health Center, said that he and his colleagues had been doing work with psilocybin for at least eight years, but that this research, along with projects at other medical centers, had been "poisoned" by the public controversy arising from the experiments conduced by Leary and Alpert...
...reason for this, according to Klerman, was that Leary and Alpert failed to observe the rules of scientific investigation in their work with psilocybin...
There was no reaction from University officials to the charges leveled by Leary and Alpert. However, a highly reliable source reported yesterday that the FBI and the Food and Drug Administration had contacted University officials after the warning about drug usage was issued...
Klerman said there was nothing new in the claim of Alpert and Leary that the experience of taking psilocybin creates a setting in which a person can see himself in a new light, and that, as a consequence, the drug can have a lasting effect on maturation, creativity or personality orientation...