Scientists Suggest Fresh Look at Psychedelic Drugs

[Adele Edisen]

Timothy Leary and friends conducted many projects while he was still at Harvard. But they seemed to put the kibosh on them in the 70s.

Magda,

If I recall properly, hearings were held in Congress on LSD in the mid-1960s, and pharmaceurical companies (Eli Lilly, in patrticular, being the only legal manufacturer in the U.S.) were blocked from producing LSD. In the meantime, private drug dealers learned the chemistry needed to synthesize LSD and it became a 'street drug' in manufacturing and in distrribution. The CIA and military had introduced it to the Americans.

Scientific grants to study LSD effects on animals and humans were denied applications for funding thereafter.

Adele