Word: psilocybin
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Leary, a former lecturer on Clinical Psychology, was fired by Harvard in 1963. Alpert was fired the same year for giving conscious-expanding drugs to an undergraduate. Leary worked closely with Alpert in his studies of psilocybin and mescaline...
Leary, who has been closely associated with Alpert in psilocybin studies, left Harvard for California and Mexico some weeks ago. Pusey said Leary had given the University no formal notification of his departure...
...statement to the Crimson, Pusey said Alpert had violated an agreement with the University not to give consciousness-expanding drugs such as psilocybin and mescaline to undergraduates. The statement also implied that Alpert had lied to an officer of the University last November when he "assured" the Administration that "he had not given drugs to any undergraduate...
Less than a week later, however, the Deputy Commissioner of the State Health Department expressed the opinion that "psilocybin falls into the classification of drugs that must be administered by a physician." Alpert disagreed with the opinion...
...Division, which, in April 1962, launched an inquiry into Alpert's and Leary's work. On April 16, this agency decided that the research could continue only if physicians were present while the drugs were administered. Subsequently a Faculty committee was named to "advise and oversee" future studies of psilocybin. This group met informally several times, but exercised very little supervision. At the end of the spring term of 1962, the drug issue seemed settled. It wasn...