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...Klerman explained that the relative 'safely of psilocybin and similar drugs exists only in carefully controlled experiments. The incidence of harmful effects would be higher in cases where persons took the drugs without supervision he said...
...Klerman Describes Effects...
...Klerman divided the effects caused by psilocybin, LSD, and mescaline into immediate and long-range. Among the immediate effects are changes in the subjects pulse, skin temperature, reflexes, etc., "considerable" [mental] confusion, and an alteration in "the person's capacity to perceive the world...
...main dangers of the immediate effects, according to Klerman are that the subject could hurt himself by for example misjudging distances, and that the physiological changes induced by the drugs might accentuate a chronic illness, like a liver condition...
...Klerman Identified the persistence of a psychotic or schizophrenic state is a harmful long-range effect that could result from taking the drugs...