HALLUCINOGENIC DRUGS, Bernard Copley, 1962, Very Scarce
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"HALLUCINOGENIC DRUGS
AND THEIR APPLICATION
TO EXTRA-SENSORY PERCEPTION"


COPLEY, Bernard


48 pages

Hypnosophic Institute
Joshua Tree, Calif.

Extremely scarce early title relating to Hallucinogens and the Drug
Experience.

*Lysergic Acid
*Mescaline
*Psylocybin
*Tryptomine
*Peyote
*Mushrooms

"The Summary of a hundred personal experiences".

Intact, tight (stapled) binding.  Very good condition.  See jpgs.

Some comments found on the Internet:

Joshua Tree, CA, Hypnotic Institute 1962, Softcover.

1962 pamphlet, Hypnosophic Institute, 1962.
Pamphlet (no cloth issued).
First edition.
Very scarce early study on one of the most interesting aspects of
hallucinogenic drug research.

1st Ed. A summary of the author's 100 experiments with LSD, mescaline,
psilocybin, peyote and DMT.
Copley was one of the earliest psychedelic drug martyrs, dying in a
Missouri prison after receiving a long
sentence for LSD distribution even before the drug became illegal.

Hypnosophic Institute, 1962.  8 Vo.
lycergic acid, mescaline, psylocybin, tryptomine, peyote, mushrooms.
The summary of a hundred personal experiences.

1963:  Bernard Roseman and Bernard Copley arrested smuggling in a
large quantity of LSD-25 from Israel.
The drug was manufactured at the Wiseman Institute in Israel.
Do you see now why the government cannot stop the drug traffic?
(Los Angeles Times, April 4, 1963).

In 1962 Sidney Cohen presented the medical community with its first
warning about the dangers of the drug LSD. LSD had arrived in the
United States in 1949 and was originally perceived as a
psychotomimetic capable of producing a model psychosis. But in the mid
1950s intellectuals in Southern California redefined LSD as a
psychedelic capable of producing mystical enlightenment. Though LSD
was an investigational drug, authorized only for experimental use, by
the late 1950s psychiatrists and psychologists were administering it
to cure neuroses and alcoholism and to enhance creativity. Cohen's
1960 study of LSD effects concluded that the drug was safe if given in
a supervised medical setting, but by 1962 his concern about
popularization, nonmedical use, black market LSD, and patients harmed
by the drug led him to warn that the spread of LSD was dangerous. The
subsequent government crackdown and regulation of LSD preceded the
1960s drug movement and was prompted by medical, not social, concerns.