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George A. Michael, Deputy Commissioner of the State Health Department, expressed his opinion yesterday that psilocybin "falls into the classification of drugs that must be administered by a physician," but Richard Alpert, assistant professor of Clinical Psychology, disagreed...
...addition to determining whether psilocybin is included in the "harmful drug" category, Michael is seeking to learn whether a physician prescribed and administered the drug during the research at Harvard. He is now examining a preliminary report of the findings of the investigation...
According to Michael, currently conducting an inquiry into Alpert's psilocybin research, the State "harmful drug" law requires that hypnotic or somnifacient (sleep-producing) drugs be given by physicians only. Noting that the Massachusetts law is more stringent than the corresponding federal law, the commissioner said that as far as he was concerned the federal government was not important in this case, and that it "need only provide an army and navy...
...University student who once took psilocybin is now in MacLaine Hospital suffering from a mental breakdown, but hospital doctors have determined that the drug in no way contributed to his breakdown. Psilocybin produces hallucinations and visions lasting from three to five hours and, if used properly, can be very effective in personality research...
Alpert and Leary began their psilocybin research two years ago with experiments in Denmark. At that time, the University reportedly received complaints from the Danish government about the work being done...