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substances. The label "fool's mushroom" first
appeared during the 1930s, along with "Mexican
mushroom of insanity". In the 1950s, the Central
American mushroom cults were discovered and the
mushrooms themselves were renamed "Mexican
magic mushrooms", in recognition of their
psychotropic effects and to emphasize the
significance of the mushrooms' early integration
into the social fabric of the cultures that cherished
them.
Later on, the relatively neutral label
"hallucinogenic mushroom" came into use in the
mycological literature. Other designations that
gained and lost popularity over time include the
somewhat derogatory term "intoxicating
mushrooms" and the essentially meaningless "drug
mushrooms".
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Following his experiments with magic
mushrooms in Mexico during the summer of 1960,
T.
Leary returned to Harvard University and began
to study psilocybin as a variable in the
administration of standard psychological test
batteries. His initial focus was diluted when he
continued to expand his experiments to include
increasingly broader settings and applications. In
reaction to Leary's markedly unorthodox
approach, the American press began to portray
psilocybin mushrooms in terms of slanderous
terminology that far exceeded the negative
connotations of labels such as "fool's mushrooms".
Descriptions of the mushrooms' effects included
claims that users experienced "death-like states".
Proponents
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accused of denying that the alkaloid caused "semipermanent
brain damage". This pseudo-scientific
jumble of meaningless jargon was symptomatic of
the sharply escalating controversy surrounding
hallucinogenic substances. Increasingly, news
reports on psilocybin were eclipsed by massive
amounts of publicity about LSD - the most potent
hallucinogen ever discovered.
The subsequent
frenzy of legislative attempts to control LSD
resulted in ever tighter restrictions on the scientific
study of not only LSD, but psilocybin as well.
Mind-altering substances were no longer thought
of in terms of their specific effects and properties,
but rather were lumped together into a single
group of dangerous chemicals. As antidrug
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pharmacological distinctions became all but
irrelevant: hallucinogens were no longer viewed as
different from other classes of dangerous and
physically addictive drugs, such as heroin or the
opiates. This demonization of hallucinogens was
successful in spite of massive research efforts that
began when Sandoz Pharmaceuticals decided to
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