Word: psilocybin
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...research of Leary and Alpert into the effects of psilocybin, a hallucinogenic drug, first became a subject of public controversy last spring. At that time other members of the Center for Research in Personality questioned the propriety of the research methods of Leary and Alpert...
...Psilocybin is a chemical synthesis of the active component in a Mexican mushroom which is used in Indian magic rites...
...evidence of the unscientific nature of the experiments, one source reported that Leary and Alpert organized group psilocybin parties, at which even the group leader had taken the drug...
Other members of the Center charged that the research was not being carried on in properly scientific fashion. After an investigation, the Massachusetts Public Health Department ruled that psilocybin could only be administered in the presence of a medical doctor. The University ruled that no undergraduates could be employed in the experiments...
...weeks ago, Dean Monro reopened the controversy with a warning to undergraduates to steer clear of psilocybin and other "consciousness-expanding drugs" because they pose a "serious hazard to the mental health and stability of even apparently normal people...