Why Was Timothy Leary Fired from Harvard?

In 1963, Leary was terminated for failing to attend scheduled class lectures, though he maintained that he had met his teaching obligations. The decision to dismiss him may have been influenced by his promotion of psychedelic drug

psychedelic drug
Legal status

Many psychedelics are classified under Schedule I of the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971 as drugs with the greatest potential to cause harm and no acceptable medical uses.

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use among Harvard students and faculty. The drugs were legal at the time.

What happened to Dr Timothy Leary?

Timothy Leary, 75, the former Harvard psychologist who became a national figure during the 1960s as the primary apostle of a cultic lifestyle based on the use of LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs, died of cancer May 31 at his hilltop home in Beverly Hills, Calif.

What was Timothy Leary's IQ?

In prison, his IQ tested at 143, with no sign of degeneration from all those drugs. Later, he entered the witness-protection program, wrote books, had cameos in movies, became a talk-show fixture and lectured to standing ovations.

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