Former Harvard Lecturer Touts “Consciousness-Expanding” Drugs
Aug. 30, 1963 - A former psychology lecturer dismissed from Harvard over a controversy involving his experiments with...
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Jul 26, 2023
Marie (The Body) McDonald Guilty of Prescription Forgery
July 26, 1963 - Entertainer Marie (The Body) McDonald (pictured in 1948) pleaded guilty today in Van Nuys, Calif., to prescription...
May 28, 2023
Harvard Professor Speaks Out on “Mind Drug” Controversy
May 28, 1963 - Dr. Richard Alpert (left) denied today that he had broken faith with Harvard University by involving an undergraduate in a...
May 27, 2023
Harvard To Fire Psych Professor over “Mind Drug” Experiments
May 27, 1963 - Harvard University will reportedly dismiss a clinical professor of psychology June 30 for testing so-called...
Apr 24, 2023
NYC Cracks Down on Glue-Sniffing
Apr. 24, 1963 - New York City’s Health Code will be amended next month in an effort to control the growing, harmful practice of...
Apr 16, 2023
Dr. Leary Touts “Mind Drug” LSD-25
Apr. 16, 1963 - Dr. Timothy Leary, the Harvard psychologist who believes in the ability of certain drugs to free men’s minds, announced...
Mar 28, 2023
Jazz Trumpeter Chet Baker Deported from Britain
Mar. 28, 1963 - American jazz trumpet player Chet Baker has been deported from Great Britain to France, the British home office announced...
Mar 22, 2023
Governor Connally Grants Parole to Candy Barr
Mar. 22, 1963 - Texas Governor John B. Connally today granted parole to former Dallas striptease dancer Candy Barr (pictured at Dallas...
Mar 6, 2023
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy Backs California A.G. on Drug-Smuggling Prevention
Mar. 6, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (pictured with John F. Kennedy Jr.) assured California Attorney General Stanley Mosk...
Feb 23, 2023
Comedian Lenny Bruce Arrested on Drug Charge
Feb. 23, 1963 - Comedian Lenny Bruce (left), 37, was arrested early today on suspicion of possessing heroin. The so-called “sick”...
Feb 19, 2023
Teen Claims Glue-Sniffing Addiction
Feb. 19, 1963 - A 19-year-old youth in Salinas, California who claimed he was addicted to sniffing glue has been committed to Patton...
Dec 13, 2022
Two Harvard Psychiatrists Say Charges Against LSD “Mind Drug” Are “Reckless and Inaccurate”
Dec. 13, 1962 - Two Harvard psychiatrists charged that statements made by Dean John Munro in an effort to stop the use of “mind drugs”...
Dec 12, 2022
California Psychiatrists Issue Warning on LSD “Mind Drug”
Dec. 12, 1962 - Alarmed by the increasing use of a hallucinatory drug, LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), by unqualified persons and at...
Nov 29, 2022
Verdict Reached in California Peyote Trial
Nov. 29, 1962 - Indians cannot plead religious freedom as a ground for eating a vision-producing cactus plant banned by state law, the...
Nov 28, 2022
Harvard Issues Warning on “Mind-Distorting” Drugs
Nov. 28, 1962 - A formal warning about the dangers of “mind-distorting drugs” was issued to undergraduates of Harvard College today....
Nov 13, 2022
Peyote Trial Underway in California
Nov. 13, 1962 - An Indian’s right to eat vision-inducing cactus buds in half-Christian, half-pagan ceremonies was defended in California...
Oct 10, 2022
President Kennedy Signs New Drug Bill
Oct. 10, 1962 - President Kennedy signed a new drug bill today that he said would help provide safe and more effective drugs to the...
Oct 5, 2022
Lenny Bruce Arrest on Drug Charge
Oct. 5, 1962 - Comedian Lenny Bruce (pictured) and Robert Coogan, brother of former child star Jackie Coogan, were arrested in North...
Sep 13, 2022
Illinois Doc Calls U.S. “Nation of Pill Swallowers”
Sept. 13, 1962 - A health commissioner said today that the United States was a “nation of pill swallowers,” that this was dangerous, and...
Aug 29, 2022
Thalidomide Caused 10,000 Birth Deformities in West Germany
Aug. 29, 1962 - The West German Federal Health Ministry announced today that the sleep-inducing drug Thalidomide had caused about 10,000...
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