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...setting to experiences with psilocybin: a questionnaire study," dittoed, 1962). After a period in which no ill effects were reported, Leary dropped the requirement of an examination, and simply presented volunteers with the possible dangers and previous results. No physiological disasters, such as struck the Oklahoma elephant full of LSD-25, have been reported (although the newness of psilocybin, and the difficulty of obtaining fit from the Swiss supplier, may in part account for this). The evidence, even from the Harvard Medical School, is that physiologically, psilocybin is slightly more dangerous than an aspirin...
...director of the Boston District of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration confirmed yesterday that F.D.A. inspectors were investigating the possible illegal sale in Cambridge of psilocybin, LSD, and mescaline, three hallucination-producing drugs...
Under F.D.A. regulations, psilocybin, LSD, and mescaline are classified as drugs under investigation or experimentation. They cannot be sold publicly, and are available only to doctors, clinical psychiatrists, or other qualified researchers...
...beneficial. Any action or any stimulus may involve risk. But in law and science the concept "danger" must be proven clear and present. When we cut through rumor and hysteria, what are the published facts about consciousness-expanding drugs? The classic volume in this field (The Use of LSD in Psychotherapy, Josiah Macy Foundation, 1960) presents a table of "problems encountered" in 8,640 treatment doses and 3427 experimental doses, thirteen investigators reporting. Three problems were reported--"one disrobing," "one suicide in a drug addict," and one three-day paranoia. This represents a danger ratio of .0003. Compare these data...
...most systematic survey of consciousness-expanding drug hazards was published by Sidney Cohen, M.D., "LSD Side Effects and Complications," (Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, 1960). Dr. Cohen's data from 44 researches on over 5,000 cases in which drugs were administered on 25,000 occasions reveals the following...