Leary Advocates Wide Availability Of Consciousness-Expanding Drugs

Consciousness-expanding drugs should be available to anyone who seriously wants to investigate their effects, the president of the International Federation for International Freedom (IFIF) said on a radio program yesterday.

Timothy F. Leary, lecturer on Clinical Psychology, stressed the need for his organization, to supervise individuals with the drugs and to provide medical, legal, and financial support to experiments. Leary joined Richard Alpert, assistant professor of Clinical Psychology, and Frank Ferguson, executive secretary of IFIF, in saying that the drugs should not be put on the open market because the public at large is "not ready" to use them intelligently.

Leary claimed that consciousness-expanding drugs can have a positive effect on a person's daily life. Referring to experiments with more than 400 individuals from all walks of life, he reported that over 66 per cent recorded positive changes due to the "health foods".

Speaking on station WEEI's "Conversation Piece", Leary said that after experimenting with "thousands" of cases he has found no subject who performed any action harmful to the community after taking the drugs.