Word: lsd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mescaline, psilocybin, and LSD, the synthetic hallucinogens now on the market, are nowhere more hungrily consumed than in Harvard Square; nowhere are the philosophical and legal issues surrounding their use more hotly debated. Three major approaches to the debate are all represented in the current Harvard Review. We have the true believers, the scientists and the armchair commentators--and they give us a timely, lively and thorough discussion...
Claiming that existing legislation prevents the Food and Drug Administration from making proper provision for the use of such drugs as psilocybin, mescaline and LSD, Alpert said that society must make it possible for drugs to be used for "growth and education." In fact, he questioned whether consciousness expanding drugs ought to be classified as drugs. "Perhaps they should be called mental vitamins or mental health foods," he suggested...
...LSD & Life...
...obvious from your article [March 29] on psychedelic drugs that your writers have never had the opportunity personally to experience the effects of psilocybin, mescaline or LSD. The major critics of drug research at Harvard are also all men who have never had an individual experience with the drugs...
...overwhelming majority of the subjects who have taken LSD, mescaline or psilocybin through Drs. Leary and Alpert report that their lives have been changed for the better. I have taken these drugs a number of times myself. I feel a reverence for the experiences they have induced, just as I feel a reverence for my most cherished, naturally occurring profound experiences...