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From the back cover: "On the morning of September 13, 1970, Timothy Leary escaped from the California prison where he had served seven months of a possible ten-year sentence for possession of marijuana. This book is Timothy Leary's account of that prison experience, written as he was living through it. It is a strikingly original work, in which dramatic narrative and spiritual reflection, humor and anger, intense emotion and philosophical detachment are inextricably intermingled."
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PrisonersBiographyPrisoners' writings, American
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Timothy Leary
October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996
Timothy Francis Leary was an American psychologist and writer known for advocating the exploration of the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs under controlled conditions. As a clinical psychologist at Harvard University, Leary conducted experiments under the Harvard Psilocybin Project in 1960–62 (LSD and psilocybin were still legal in the United States at the time), resulting in the Concord Prison Experiment and the Marsh Chapel Experiment. The scientific legitimacy and ethics of his research were questioned by other Harvard faculty because he took psychedelics together with research subjects and pressured students in his class to take psychedelics in the research studies. Leary an…
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