Word: lsd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LSD-25 (short for D-lysergic acid diethylamide), by far the most potent, is a chemical relative of the ergot drugs, synthesized in 1943 by Swiss Chemist Albert Hofmann. As Discoverer Hofmann found, and countless psychiatrists have since confirmed, a dose of LSD-25 can be so small as to be almost invisible and still destroy a man's mental equilibrium, at least temporarily. As little as four-millionths of an ounce is sometimes enough to throw an emotionally wobbly individual into a mental hospital. One victim, ill for months, was a psychologist who was trying out LSD himself...
...setting to experiences with psilocybin: a questionnaire study," dittoed, 1962). After a period in which no ill effects were reported, Leary dropped the requirement of an examination, and simply presented volunteers with the possible dangers and previous results. No physiological disasters, such as struck the Oklahoma elephant full of LSD-25, have been reported (although the newness of psilocybin, and the difficulty of obtaining fit from the Swiss supplier, may in part account for this). The evidence, even from the Harvard Medical School, is that physiologically, psilocybin is slightly more dangerous than an aspirin...
...drugs, while it may have aroused the curiosity of those who had been indifferent. If the University is to guide its students, it must do so by providing information about the dangers, on the same rational bases that it expects its faculty to operate. The dangers of mescaline and LSD are real; those of psilocybin even greater because unknown, and the University is absolutely correct in condemning irresponsible and unguided playing. But a more informative warning is needed...
...director of the Boston District of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration confirmed yesterday that F.D.A. inspectors were investigating the possible illegal sale in Cambridge of psilocybin, LSD, and mescaline, three hallucination-producing drugs...
Under F.D.A. regulations, psilocybin, LSD, and mescaline are classified as drugs under investigation or experimentation. They cannot be sold publicly, and are available only to doctors, clinical psychiatrists, or other qualified researchers...