timothy leary had a big personality.got really excited about these psychoactive drugs, to the point where he kind of crossed the boundary of responsible academic research. and i don't know if you can't attribute the counterculture to him, but his work with the drug and students kind of created the counterculture in some ways that the drug was used in an irresponsible manner. so the counterculture happened and everybody got scared and said no more research with this drug. it's causing too much madness. and so by the 1970s, the research was just closed. the drugs were scheduled and no research could be permitted. so all was quiet and tonight a few new age researchers in the '70s and 80s, and then the research has slowly build and build and build so there's a lot of different studies going on at the various institutions. there's a few we going on at johns hopkins, a few going on at new york university. a few going on at ucla. that all can have a different approach, using maybe one substance or another to focus on a differen

you know, timothy leary worked at harvard, so this is when he was being good and doing good research.did a study called the concord prison project. and he administered lsd to 175 inmates, and it was great. i think it turned out really well for them. the research doesn't go that far because -- i've seen this written so far -- because the inmates got religion. [laughter] that made the authorities uncomfortable. so, but one thing that's really interesting is there's some meeting minutes in here. and we've had to go in and redact the name of the people involved in this study, the people who took the drug. but questions come up, and it says there's problems of trust and distrust. like the people who were taking this drug. and it has one column of the problem and one column of the solution. there's no solution for the trust and distrust. .. >> so it is this kind of a very candid depiction of what comes out in these sessions are and how people react. it's not like they were administering drugs in prison cells. it was a formal study to go to the hospital in small groups in this at all have be