Word: psilocybin
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...Klerman explained that the relative 'safely of psilocybin and similar drugs exists only in carefully controlled experiments. The incidence of harmful effects would be higher in cases where persons took the drugs without supervision he said...
Interviewed by telephone, Dr. Gerald K. Klerman, a psychiatrist and assistant clinical director of the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, said that he and his colleagues had been doing work with psilocybin for at least eight years, but that this research, along with projects at other medical centers, had been "poisoned" by the public controversy arising from the experiments conduced by Leary and Alpert...
...reason for this, according to Klerman, was that Leary and Alpert failed to observe the rules of scientific investigation in their work with psilocybin...
...source gave two instances of this disregard for scientific procedure yesterday the fact that experimental subjects were not selected art random, and may even have included persons who had undergone psychiatric treatment; and the fact that group sessions or house 'psilocybin parties' were held in which even the group leader took the drug, thereby preventing objective observation of its effects...
...Klerman divided the effects caused by psilocybin, LSD, and mescaline into immediate and long-range. Among the immediate effects are changes in the subjects pulse, skin temperature, reflexes, etc., "considerable" [mental] confusion, and an alteration in "the person's capacity to perceive the world...