Word: psilocybin
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...have seen a statement by Harvard officials on LSD and other drugs, and offer these few comments based on several dozen experiences (with LSD-25, mescaline, psilocybin, peyote and banisteriopsis caapi) spaced out over the last decade. Circumstances of ingestion varied from solitary trial to controlled academic setting at Stanford U. and Harvard to watchful supervision by native curanderos in the Peruvian Amazon...
...expert on psilocybin and other "consciousness expanding" drugs (LSD, mescaline) yesterday criticized Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert for raising a "false issue of scientific or academic freedom" in their charges that research on these drugs is being blocked at Harvard and other universities...
...statement issued last night in response to qustions asked by the CRIMSON, Timothy Leary discounted reports of widespread undergraduate use of psilocybin and similar drugs. "Unfounded rumors about consciousness-expanding drugs have been at fever pitch for the last two years. . .Locally and nationally there seems to be intense interest in consciousness expansion, but little access to the drugs...
Leary said that he and Alpert were continuing their psilocybin investigations, under medical supervision, with their own independent research association...
Tuesday night Dean Monro and Dana L. Farnsworth, director of the Health Services, wrote a letter to the CRIMSON warning undergraduates of the danger of what they called "mind-distorting" drugs such as L.S.D. (lysergic acid diethy-lamide), psilocybin, and mescaline...