Word: psilocybin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...RECENT HECTIC discussions of psilocybin, a drug that alters perception, have fused...[several] separate issues. For the benefit of those who have been confused, the following list details these questions...
...fetched evidence from criminal cases his office has dealt with. The point was, it seemed, simple citations can lead to bigger things. One example: a bicycle obscured an auto license plate. The car was stopped, and it yielded eleven bags of a "brown mushroom substance I can't pronounce (psilocybin), although I know it's a dangerous drug," some marijuana and pills. Large cases or little, the marshal said, you have to be on your toes. Mothers used to come down to the saloons and leave their children outside on the benches until all hours. McNeely now enforces...
Schultes' work with narcotics has led to developments such as mescaline, which causes a "beautifully colored visual hallucination," he says, and psilocybin, which is extracted from a mushroom plant native to Mexico. Both drugs have been used in psychiatry...
...Boston's newest medical building on Emerson Place last week, they were settling into plush offices with the name "International Federation for Internal Freedom." They sounded as euphoric as any of their subjects under the influence of psilocybin, their favorite "consciousness-expanding" drug. Said Leary: "This is much more important than Harvard...
What we are remembering this weekend is a controversy in the history of Harvard which filled the pages of The Crimson and preoccupied the national news media for months 20 years ago Drs. Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, both psychologist and members of the Harvard. Faculty, had discovered psilocybin, a consciousness altering substance in the "magic mushroom," and were busy persuading graduates and un dergraduates to take it--in some in stances as part of a course for credit They arranged sessions--called "drug trips" by their opposition--for groups as diverse as prisoners in the Concord Reformatory and worshippers...