Word: psilocybin
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University officials indicated yesterday that they have known for at least two years about the psilocybin research being conducted by two members of the Center for Research in Personality but did not interfere because to do so would be an invasion of academic freedom...
Both Richard Albert and Timothy Leary, working with psilocybin at the University, hold that the experimenter must be under the mild influence of the drug to follow effectively their subjects' reactions...
President Pusey said yesterday that the University is not planning its own investigation into the use of psilocybin at the Center for Research in Personality, and that he is confident that David C. McCielland, head of the Center, will satisfy investigators from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health...
...colleagues at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center say he should not. Dr. Max Rinkel told the CRIMSON that the experimenter "should definitely not be under the influence of psilocybin at the time of his experiment. If he were, he could neither control nor observe it properly...
Leary and Alpert denied Saturday that psilocybin has any physiological after-effects, but admitted that "negative" psychological changes could occur, "depending on the individual's response to the experiment." Leary stated that the dosage would have to be increased "100 times" to cause permanent physiological damage...