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...three recent CRIMSON articles (widely reprinted in the national press) Harvard administrators have stated, that consciousness-expanding drugs (LSD, mescaline, psilocybin) are "a serious hazard to the mental health and stability even of apparently normal people." While these statements are conservative from the administrative point of view, they are reckless and inaccurate from the scientific. The published facts and the philosophical-political implications deserve thoughtful review. To understand the importance of this issue, it is necessary to realize that more is involved than the more handlings of drugs. What is in question is the freedom or control of consciousness...
...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...
...Oklahoma, two psychiatrists and a zoologist pumped an elephant full of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), a psychotomimetic drug. According to the latest issue of Science, they chose the subject for the experiment "because of his remarkable intelligence, his extended life span, his capacity for highly organized group relationships, and his extraordinary psychobiology in general. His fate was horrible and brief...
...throughout. The eyes were closed and showed a spasm of the orbicularis occuli; the eyeballs were turned sharply to the left, with markedly dilated pupils. The mouth was open, but breathing was extremely labored and stertorous..." But why go on? "He died 1 hour and 40 minutes after the LSD had been injected," the three authors reported...
Some people can't resist giving drugs to everything they meet, as it known. But to give LSD to elephants is just too much. "It appears that the elephant is highly sensitive to the effects of LSD." Yes. What's left if the beast who naturally never forgets should have his consciousness freed...