Word: psilocybin
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...drugs control section of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health has launched an investigation of research involving psilocybin at Harvard's Center for Research in Personality...
...Psilocybin is classified as a "new drug" by the Federal Food and Drug Administration and hence is not available for general prescription until investigations indicate whether it is dangerous or not. Under inter-state commerce regulations it can be shipped only to qualified researchers...
...drug-manufacturer is responsible for determining whether the psychiatrist or psychologist is properly qualified, on the basis of questionnaires filed by the researcher. Sandoz Pharmaceutical of New Jersey, which accomplished the first synthesis of LSD, is providing the psilocybin used by Richard Alpert, assistant professor of Clinical Psychology, and Timothy Leary, lecturer on Clinical Psychology, in their research on graduate student subjects...
...March 17 CRIMSON Mr. Alpert and Mr. Leary put their finger on one of the leading objections to the psilocybin research. They say that psychological change, positive or negative depending on the individual's response to the experiment, will occur. They continue with the statement that when, as a result of the drug's action the mind enters a new region these regions may be returned to afterwards...
...with the specific psychological screening that is done. Are the subjects screened in such a way as to make sure that none of them fits into the category of people whose immediate and later reactions indicate that they may have had psychological experiences by way of the psilocybin which have been psychologically harmful...