400mg mescaline hydrochloride on national television (almost)

[downwardsfromzero]

Here's something some of you may be interested to hear about. The report itself predates the Nexus by several years, and as for the experience - well, read for yourself.

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This certainly deserves having its place cemented in the annals of psychedelic history - just think what prominence it might have had today had the BBC not been too chicken to broadcast it!

"To be rich and prosperous, a nation must have a safe, secure, supply of wood." :lol: These transcripts do get rather more profound later on, however.

A number of video excerpts are available:
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The subject of the experiment made his commentary here:
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A further link to the transcript of the original experiment can be found here:

Panorama: The Mescaline Experiment

A LIVING ROOM. CHRISTOPHER MAYHEW IS SITTING IN AN ARMCHAIR. DR HUMPHRY OSMOND IS SITTING ON A STOOL NEXT TO HIM. BETWEEN THEM IS A SINGLE OLD-STYLE BBC MICROPHONE. THE DIRECTOR IS POISED NEXT TO T…

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[artificer]

Wow, good find! Interesting to see how curious they are going into the experiment, with so little light on the subject at the time. Reminds me of "Doors of Perception", which was published a year earlier.

 

[downwardsfromzero]

Wow, good find! Interesting to see how curious they are going into the experiment, with so little light on the subject at the time. Reminds me of "Doors of Perception", which was published a year earlier.

Although it wasn't that difficult to find, it's still a satisfying little gem from the historic records.

Dr. Humphry Osmond (inventor of the term 'psychedelic') gave mescaline to both Christopher Mayhew here as well as Aldous Huxley - not to mention whoever else was among his research subjects. This raises the question, just how many (perhaps influential) people did Osmond dose, and who?

 

[Mitakuye Oyasin]

That is pretty amazing. A much better clip than the fake news promoter and all around scumbag Geraldo Rivera (actually Gerry Rivers) smoking Cannabis on air supposedly for the first time in the 1970's, although he was already known for years before this as a frequent user of Cannabis, in addition to being a lying scumbag.