Word: psilocybin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until Timothy Leary came along, psychology researchers at Harvard could do pretty much anything they wanted with their human subjects and still be left in peace. Even with Leary and his colleague Richard Alpert hosting psilocybin parties in private homes, with state and national agencies investigating the legality of the drug tests, and with reports of at least one former subject hospitalized at McLean's with a nervous breakdown-- even then, Harvard didn't do much. The Crimson reported in the spring of 1962 that University officials had known about the research on hallucinogens for at least two years...
Certainly, sensitivity to ethical problems in research has grown enormously during the decade since HEW required committee review. If a Leary came to Harvard wanting to experiment with psilocybin or LSD, the CUHS--if it knew of the tests--would certainly interfere, and few would mourn the assault on Leary's academic freedom. "The Committee has raised everyone's consciousness during the last few years," Bales says...
...earth wouldn't take any more. A billion love bugs spawned from the pools of standing water and made paste on every windshield that ventured out in the country. The water was good for every growing thing, and one of the most fabulous crops was the fabulous blue ring psilocybin mushrooms that some longhairs were collecting in the woods...
Leary, a former lecturer on Clinical Psychology, was fired by Harvard in 1963. Alpert was fired the same year for giving conscious-expanding drugs to an undergraduate. Leary worked closely with Alpert in his studies of psilocybin and mescaline...
...Division, which, in April 1962, launched an inquiry into Alpert's and Leary's work. On April 16, this agency decided that the research could continue only if physicians were present while the drugs were administered. Subsequently a Faculty committee was named to "advise and oversee" future studies of psilocybin. This group met informally several times, but exercised very little supervision. At the end of the spring term of 1962, the drug issue seemed settled. It wasn...