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The Harvard Psychedelic Club - The Daily Beast
In 1960, Timothy Leary set up an infamous institute at Harvard to experiment with psychedelic drugs. An exclusive excerpt from Don Lattin’s new book on how lifestyle guru Andrew Weil and other freshmen started tripping.

The Harvard Psychedelic Club
Harvard, LSD, and the 1960s
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 [5 articles]
According to Don Lattin's The Harvard Psychedelic Club
(HarperCollins, $24.99), which goes on sale today, there was
apparently a time at Harvard when it was perfectly hunky-dory for
professors to give LSD to their students* for purely scientific
purposes, of course.





The Search for an Endangered Mushroom
That Could Cure Smallpox, TB and Bird Flu

Erowid Character Vaults/Timothy Leary
Oct 22, 1920 - May 31, 1996

"Put it into historical context. The use of sacramental vegetables has gone back, back, back in history to shamans and the Hindu religion and Buddhist religion. They were using soma. It's an ancient human ritual that has usually been practiced in the context of religion or of worship or of tribal coming together. I didn't pioneer anything. The use of psychedelics for spiritual purposes was started in the 50s by Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs."—Tim Leary
deoxy.org/leary

Timothy Leary Wikipedia,

TIMOTHY LEARY WAS another early advocate of LSD experimentation. Leary taught psychology at Harvard and by 1960 was doing experiments with LSD and other hallucinogens, first on prison inmates and then on himself and his friends. LSD was not illegal at the time. In 1960, Allen Ginsberg, supervised by Leary, ingested psilocybin mushrooms, (under the influence of the drug, he phoned Jack Kerouac, identifying himself as God to the telephone operator), and began to spread the word about the new powerful psychedelic drugs. When Harvard dismissed Leary in 1963, he set up the Castalia Institute in Millbrook, New York, to continue his studies. Leary's approach to taking LSD was the opposite of Ken Kesey'sÐLeary believed in "set and setting," a practice of taking the drug in a controlled environment, as a safeguard against bad trips. He coined the phrase "Turn On, Tune In, and Drop Out," and formed the "League of Spiritual Discovery," an LSD advocacy group. In the mid sixties, he began attending numerous musical events and public forums that promoted the use of LSD. Leary spent a number of years in prison for various charges related to drug possession.
2.lib.virginia/sixties/leary



The Marijuana Tax Act was overturned...

Leary v. United States
Marihuana Tax Act violated his privilege against self-incrimination

The Marihuana Tax Act levies an occupational tax upon all those who "deal in" the drug, and provides that the taxpayer must register his name and place of business with the Internal Revenue Service. The Act imposes a transfer tax "upon all transfers of marihuana" required to be effected with a written order form, and all except a limited number of clearly lawful transfers must be effected with such a form. The Act further imposes a transfer tax of per ounce on a registered transferee and 0 per ounce on an unregistered transferee. The forms, executed by the transferee, must show the transferor's name and address and the amount of marihuana involved.

Schaffer Library of Drug Policy

Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding



Timothy Leary U2b
* The man who turned on America
* Tim Leary at Millbrook--Interview
* How to Operate Your Brain
* Lsd Science And Experience

Remembering Timothy Leary

TIMOTHY LEARY
Sound Photosynthesis features videos, tapes, CDs, books and more in a wide range of topics, including science, health, spirituality, mind, brain, consciousness, cosmos and more.



Out of LSD? Feb 2 2010 WIRED
Just 15 Minutes of Sensory Deprivation Triggers Hallucinations
You don’t need psychedelic drugs to start seeing colors and objects that aren’t really there. Just 15 minutes of near-total sensory deprivation can bring on hallucinations in many otherwise sane individuals.

ramdass.org

Ram Dass U2b



Writers and Ayahuasca 1: William Burroughs adoc
The Yage Letters is probably the all-time best-known literary account of Ayahuasca. The South America Burroughs describes is a corrupt, violent place, full of poverty and misery, and although all of those things were true (and some are still true to this date) one feels Burroughs' tastes for the seedy underground of drug and juvenile delinquents kept him from ever seeing a broader picture.

The Great Marijuana Hoax By Allen Ginsberg
N O V E M B E R 1 9 6 6


Burroughs and Gisnberg

Sacred Brews, Secret Muse
If you haven't seen Avatar yet

After seeing the film twice, I believe Mr. Cameron may have had help with his vision of life in another dimension, where the blue-skinned Na'vi maintain a direct communication with all biological life through a visceral connection with the tree deity Eywa. My suspicion is that he has heard about the use of ayahuasca among indigenous people in the Amazon, our closest relative to the luxuriant, bioluminescent jungle of Pandora.

Ayahuasca Tourism in South America 10/20/00



Dr. Andrew Weil

drweil.com

According to testimony before the US Congress by Dr. Andrew Weil, "a smoker would have to theoretically consume nearly 1500 Pounds of marijuana within about 15 minutes to induce a lethal response." By comparison, he adds that "eating 10 raw potatoes can result in a toxic response," and that aspirin "causes hundreds if not thousands of deaths each year."
~ Toronto Hemp Company (THC)
Information - Marijuana Myths



From Chocolate to Morphine
Dr. Andrew Weil
Everything You Need to Know About Mind-Altering Drugs.

Dr. Andrew Weil of the University of Arizona College of Medicine states, "There is not a shred of hope from history or from cross-culture studies to suggest that human beings can live without psychoactive substances." Bees drop to the ground after having nectar from certain orchards. Birds get drunk off berries and then fly into windows. After cats sniff certain plants they swing at imaginary objects. Certain range weeds will make cows shake, twitch, and stumble back for more. Elephants purposely get drunk on fermented fruits..."



A Hempy 150th to Anton Chekhov
This January 29 marks the 150th birthday of Russian writer Anton Chekhov, and productions of the author's work are planned around the world.

New Bob Marley Album Released on His 65th Birthday
On February 2, 2010, in commemoration of Bob Marley’s 65th birthday, Tuff Gong will issue a new digital-only collection, In Dub Vol. 1, exclusively on iTunes.

Ganga Winners at the Grammy Awards
Marijuana smokers were in high numbers at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards.

Among the Lifetime Achievement awardees at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards ceremony was another Canadian, Leonard Cohen, along with Andre Previn and Bobby Darin.

According to Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen by Ira B. Nadel (1997), Cohen began experimenting with marijuana, peyote and LSD in the mid-fifties. "High on LSD or marijuana, Cohen found the freedom to experiment poetically and to attempt new forms for his songwriting... He had always understood drugs to be sacramental and ceremonial, not recreational. Under their influence, he felt he was able to explore psychological and creative states that were otherwise unavailable."

Previn, along with Cary Grant, Jack Nicholson, and James Coburn, took LSD when it was legal in a clinical setting. Darin, who had success as a cabaret-style singer, underwent a hippie awakening later in his career, when he sported a mustache and wrote anti-war songs like "A Simple Song of Freedom." His song "Me and Mr. Hohner" talks about cops asking him,

That's a cute mustache
Have ya got any hash?
I'd like to make a buy, says the small one.

You have picked a bad spot
To smoke your pot
Whatcha gonna do two against one?

Now da whole thing's silly
But I'm starin' at the billy
Quietly askin' myself now will he ...

American High Society

Summer of Love: 40 Years Later

Thank God for Hippies

kitch

booo Leary.

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Waves

theres alot worse people in the world to boo than timothy leary

yay baba ram dass

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On this life that we call home
The years go fast and the days go so slow