Word: pscilocybin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DRUGS BEGAN TO ASSUME a new importance in society in the early Sixties, when they suddenly became the property of the respectable middle class. At Harvard, two denizens of William James Hall, Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, were using the "mind-expanding" drug pscilocybin in experiments on students. Andrew L. Weil '64, now Andrew E. Weil M.D., was The Crimson's drug expert at the time even though he was also a Poonie--and did the bright, relentless, comprehensible reporting which led to the eventual banning of the experiments and termination of Leary and Alpert...
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