Word: psilocybin
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Timothy Leary, lecturer in Clinical Psychology, last night discussed the use of drugs which induce an expansion of experience. In a speech sponsored by the Harvard Humanists, he justified his experiments with psilocybin...
Leary advocated the recognition of a "fifth Freedom, freedom of consciousness," to enable the individual to escape the artificial game relations of the external world and experience an internal rebirth. Psilocybin puts such rebirth a moment away, Leary said...
...week later, Alfred J. Murphy, senior food and drug inspector of the Department of Public Health, launched an investigation to determine if the two researchers were violating State laws by possessing or prescribing psilocybin...
University officials reportedly knew about the psilocybin research for two years, but did not interfere because to do so would be an invasion of academic freedom...
...psilocybin controversy started in early March, when several members of the Center for Research in Personality charged at a public meeting that "the project was being run nonchalantly and irresponsibly and that alleged permanent injury to participants had been ignored or underestimated...