Word: psilocybin
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...recent hectic discussions of psilocybin, a drug that alters perception, have fused six separate issues. For the benefit of those who have ben confused, the following list details these questions...
...strongly disagree with the statement of Herbert C. Kelman, reported in the CRIMSON, March 15, concerning the psilocybin research being conducted at the Center for Research in Personality: "This work violates the values of the academic community." I feel it a grave mistake to make public criticism of this fascinating area of research on the basis of doubtful ethical considerations. The fact that the drug's properties lead people (including this writer) to be vaguely in awe and fear of its potentialities seems to be a rather poor reason for undertaking any criticism which might result in pressures restricting...
...comment should be made about academic values, such as freedom in research, it should be that important values are being threatened by public critics of the psilocybin research who would make a premature ethical judgment. Leary, Alpert and the graduate students working with them are as capable as anyone else of making decisions as to the advisability of using certain research procedures; they are exploring a field in which it might be a mistake to be bound and restricted by traditional methods. In the long run, the proof will be, and should be, in the pudding. Researchers will always...
...wish I could treat this as scholarly disagreement," said Herbert C. Kelman, lecturer on Social Psychology and leading opponent of the psilocybin research, "but this work violates the values of the academic community." He charged a "non-chalant attitude" by Leary and Alpert toward controls of the experiments, effects on the subject, and administration of the project...
Leary disputed a colleague's claim that scholarly articles on psilocybin say it should be taken in a hospital setting. He said it was standard procedure to hold meetings in subjects' homes at which all in attendance were under the influence of the drug. "But no staff member," Leary added, "has ever been in a situation when he couldn't handle any eventuality...