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More than 40 years after Harvard dismissed Timothy F. Leary for using undergraduates in his LSD experiments, Harvard scientists are reopening the door to psychedelic drug research.
Until 2002, the FDA had not approved a study involving the therapeutic impact of psychedelic drugs since the 1970s. The Harvard study is the fourth such study to be approved in the past two years—the other studies examine the drug’s potential salutary effects for...
“This has the potential to be the base to coordinate psychedelic research going on around the country,” said Richard E. Doblin, president of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), the organization sponsoring the Harvard study.
According to Doblin, it was this unrealistic set of expectations that threw public opinion about psychedelic drugs wildly into disfavor in the 1960s, after the “fiasco” with Leary’s research at Harvard.
There is an important exception to that rule: the school of animated, psychedelic marine creatures Zissou and his crew encounter. The fishies look as if they have just swum off a Peter Max poster--all gaudy innocence. They're kind of silly and kind of wonderful. They perfectly symbolize what...