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Last fall a committee of the Laboratory of Social Relations failed to come to an agreement with Alpert on controls for the drug research, and the Laboratory and Alpert agreed the research could not continue at Harvard. Yesterday's decision was not related to the methods of Alpert's investigation, but solely to his unauthorized use of at least one undergraduate as a research subject...
Robert F. Bales, Director of the Laboratory, said last night that Alpert was unwilling to relinquish drugs he intended for his personal use, claiming he had a citizen's right to possess them. In view of this the Laboratory felt it was impossible to establish "proper control of the drugs...
Bales said Alpert's colleagues were "subjected to unpleasant pressures" while the investigations were being discussed. Many members of the department felt Alpert was not conducting his work with a scientific approach...
Less than a week later, however, the Deputy Commissioner of the State Health Department expressed the opinion that "psilocybin falls into the classification of drugs that must be administered by a physician." Alpert disagreed with the opinion...
...publicity attendant on the drug Investigations had attracted the attention of the Massachusetts Food and Drugs Division, which, in April 1962, launched an inquiry into Alpert's and Leary's work. On April 16, this agency decided that the research could continue only if physicians were present while the drugs were administered. Subsequently a Faculty committee was named to "advise and oversee" future studies of psilocybin. This group met informally several times, but exercised very little supervision. At the end of the spring term of 1962, the drug issue seemed settled. It wasn...