Word: psilocybin
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...RECENT HECTIC discussions of psilocybin, a drug that alters perception, have fused...[several] separate issues. For the benefit of those who have been confused, the following list details these questions...
Legality: psilocybin must bear the label "may be habit-forming," according to the Pure Food and Drug Act. It is, however, not under the jurisdiction of the Federal Narcotics Agency...
...fetched evidence from criminal cases his office has dealt with. The point was, it seemed, simple citations can lead to bigger things. One example: a bicycle obscured an auto license plate. The car was stopped, and it yielded eleven bags of a "brown mushroom substance I can't pronounce (psilocybin), although I know it's a dangerous drug," some marijuana and pills. Large cases or little, the marshal said, you have to be on your toes. Mothers used to come down to the saloons and leave their children outside on the benches until all hours. McNeely now enforces...
Schultes' work with narcotics has led to developments such as mescaline, which causes a "beautifully colored visual hallucination," he says, and psilocybin, which is extracted from a mushroom plant native to Mexico. Both drugs have been used in psychiatry...
...Boston's newest medical building on Emerson Place last week, they were settling into plush offices with the name "International Federation for Internal Freedom." They sounded as euphoric as any of their subjects under the influence of psilocybin, their favorite "consciousness-expanding" drug. Said Leary: "This is much more important than Harvard...