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...Prodigal returned: Timothy Leary, 52, the former Harvard lecturer and proponent of high living (via LSD and other drugs) who sneaked out of a California prison in 1970 and has been trying to find a more tolerant homeland ever since. Tossed out of Afghanistan, Leary was collared by U.S. narcs who hustled him back to Los Angeles. Tagging along was his British traveling companion Joanna Harcourt-Smith, 26, who announced: "I'm here to free him. Love is what it takes." Said Leary in more practical tones, "I'm going to get a lawyer...
...would be unfortunate if the firing of Richard Alpert led to the suppression of legitimate research into the effects of hallucinogenic compounds. Such drugs as mescaline, psilocybin, and LSD may be of real value in scientific studies of the mind and in the treatment of mental disorders. But it would have been equally unfortunate if Dr. Alpert had been allowed to continue his activities under the aegis of a University that he has misinformed about his purposes...
After evaluating 220 of the 300-odd specimens available, the council rated 31% unacceptable, 53% usable only with careful guidance, and just 16% "scientifically and conceptually acceptable." One film, Drugs and the Nervous System, was singled out for "misleading statements," such as a claim that LSD causes permanent brain damage. Another, "LSD: Insight or Insanity," was described as drawing on "rare, infrequent and experimental" results to depict the dangers of LSD use. According to Richard M. Earle, president of the council, the majority of the films exaggerate drug problems in ways that are "so inaccurate, so unscientific, so psychologically unsound...
According to Noyes, that kind of experience is not unlike the mystical states of consciousness sometimes brought on by LSD. He suggests, therefore, that one way for scientists to find out more about what it is like to die is to study what happens to people when they take drugs...
They warned that Harvard people were likely to be freaks and "remember, seven out of every ten girls who took LSD for the first time didn't like it." The Yale man, on the other hand, was given the ultimate compliment. He was described as "cool...