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...Et maintenant," shouts the announcer triumphantly, "voici Les Bluebells!" Out from the wings prance 17 abundantly healthy girls, strenuously smiling. They are big, leggy and bosomy. They can do a cakewalk; they can swivel through a Charleston to the music of Yes, We Have No Bananas and Ain't She Sweet? They can shimmy, shake and kick their legs in perfect unison. Then they race into the wings to ruffles, flourishes and fanfares in the orchestra and table thumping applause from the audience in the world-famed Lido of Paris...
Outpatient use of psilocybin, in particular, has been pointed out as potentially hazardous because of the "suicidal ideation, excited states, and impaired judgement" it can produce. (S. Malitz, et al., "Some Observations on Psilocybin, a New Hallucinogen, in Volunteer Subjects," Comprehensive Psychiatry, 1960, 1, 8-17.) Assurances of a "psychological screening," with no information about the criteria of screening, are distressingly vague, and here Leary and his associates have failed to provide the University with proper evidence of the safety of their work. The fact that the University has not held up a ruined volunteer as an example...
...Abnormal Psychology states, for example: "...placebo treatment is necessary, because without it we could not be sure that any effects observed in the experimental group were due to the drug and not to psychological factors such as suggestibility, expectation, and so forth." To this the questionnaire study by Metzner et al. responds: "The present study does not employ a placebo control group since the focus of interest was not the comparison of psilocybin experiences with the effects of suggestion. Rather, the purpose of the research was to examine the effects of a set, setting and back-ground variables...
Whatever the vagaries of research methods, the paper by Litwin et al, makes it clear that its authors avow a commitment to "research on the short term and long term effects of psilocybin plus situation, and on the possible social uses of psilocybin.... Asking those people who are participating with us in making decisions and setting up programs to take the drug themselves is not evasive, but rather an attempt to bring as much knowledge and experience as possible to bear on these problems.... [However,] confrontation or, as it were, understanding the problem from the inside may be fruitful...
...Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Guests: Joan Sutherland, Pat Boone, Mindy Carson, et...