Honors English IV
Mrs. Andrews
23-November 2015
LSD
LSD-25 was among one of the drugs that CIA scientists tested, LSD seemed to have one of the highest potential for use in intelligence gathering. The CIA studied and utilized LSD extensively from the early fifties until 1963, when they stopped using it. Psychologists, who had been steadily building data that supported the therapeutic side of LSD, they were forced to stop their research.
Dr. Timothy Leary and Dr. Richard Alpert of Harvard University, refused to follow the new LSD regulations. They were soon relived from teaching at harvard but they still educated the public about the spiritual and therapeutic effects of this drug.
In 1938, Dr. Albert Hoffman, a chemist working at Sandoz Laboratories …show more content…
(Shalin, 57) Patients continually stated that only a few LSD sessions had been more useful to them than years of psychoanalysis. Psychedelic therapy became a popular among politicians, writers, movie stars.
Psychologists tested LSD on approximately 40,000 patients, in the treatment of many disorders, addictions, and various dysfunctional behaviors, but, in the end, this research amounted to nothing more than lucky salvation for a selected group of patients and a waste of time and effort for psychologists who were searching for techniques that could be used legally to help all people live more fulfilling lives.
Many scientists who studied LSD blamed Dr. Timothy Leary, a behavioral psychologist at Harvard, for the rapid advancement of policies that lead to LSD illegal status. It seems that one man couldn’t cause such a crackdown, but then it again, it also seems highly unlikely that one man could cause the dramatic cultural revolution of the 1960's, as Leary did.
Timothy Leary's undergraduate career began oddly . He attended West Point for a short amount of time, eventually dropping out because the other students excluding him. He then enrolled at the University of CA at Berkley, where he received his doctorate in …show more content…
First and foremost was Dr. Timothy Leary…Whether the psychedelic movement would have happened without Timothy Leary is a matter of debate, but there can be no question that he defined its public style" (Stevens, xv).
In 1962, the same year that Alpert and Leary were expelled from Harvard University, Congress enacted a law that made it virtually impossible for any person or organization, with the exceptions of the CIA and military, to obtain LSD for research purposes. In 1965, Congress passed the Drug Abuse Control Amendments under which the illicit manufacture and sale of LSD became a misdemeanor.
In 1966, Senator Robert Kennedy, whose wife had successfully undergone LSD therapy, lead a congressional probe into the organization and coordination of federal drug research and regulatory programs. After this probe, Kennedy concluded that regulatory agencies were thwarting potentially valuable research. The FDA ignored Kennedy's pleas for them to review the scientific reports pertaining to LSD. This data included approximately 1,000 clinical papers relating to 40,000
Mrs. Andrews
23-November 2015
LSD
LSD-25 was among one of the drugs that CIA scientists tested, LSD seemed to have one of the highest potential for use in intelligence gathering. The CIA studied and utilized LSD extensively from the early fifties until 1963, when they stopped using it. Psychologists, who had been steadily building data that supported the therapeutic side of LSD, they were forced to stop their research.
Dr. Timothy Leary and Dr. Richard Alpert of Harvard University, refused to follow the new LSD regulations. They were soon relived from teaching at harvard but they still educated the public about the spiritual and therapeutic effects of this drug.
In 1938, Dr. Albert Hoffman, a chemist working at Sandoz Laboratories …show more content…
(Shalin, 57) Patients continually stated that only a few LSD sessions had been more useful to them than years of psychoanalysis. Psychedelic therapy became a popular among politicians, writers, movie stars.
Psychologists tested LSD on approximately 40,000 patients, in the treatment of many disorders, addictions, and various dysfunctional behaviors, but, in the end, this research amounted to nothing more than lucky salvation for a selected group of patients and a waste of time and effort for psychologists who were searching for techniques that could be used legally to help all people live more fulfilling lives.
Many scientists who studied LSD blamed Dr. Timothy Leary, a behavioral psychologist at Harvard, for the rapid advancement of policies that lead to LSD illegal status. It seems that one man couldn’t cause such a crackdown, but then it again, it also seems highly unlikely that one man could cause the dramatic cultural revolution of the 1960's, as Leary did.
Timothy Leary's undergraduate career began oddly . He attended West Point for a short amount of time, eventually dropping out because the other students excluding him. He then enrolled at the University of CA at Berkley, where he received his doctorate in …show more content…
First and foremost was Dr. Timothy Leary…Whether the psychedelic movement would have happened without Timothy Leary is a matter of debate, but there can be no question that he defined its public style" (Stevens, xv).
In 1962, the same year that Alpert and Leary were expelled from Harvard University, Congress enacted a law that made it virtually impossible for any person or organization, with the exceptions of the CIA and military, to obtain LSD for research purposes. In 1965, Congress passed the Drug Abuse Control Amendments under which the illicit manufacture and sale of LSD became a misdemeanor.
In 1966, Senator Robert Kennedy, whose wife had successfully undergone LSD therapy, lead a congressional probe into the organization and coordination of federal drug research and regulatory programs. After this probe, Kennedy concluded that regulatory agencies were thwarting potentially valuable research. The FDA ignored Kennedy's pleas for them to review the scientific reports pertaining to LSD. This data included approximately 1,000 clinical papers relating to 40,000