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Published: 01.12.1996.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
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  • Essays 'Biography on Timothy Leary', 1.
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Timothy Leary
(1920-1906)
Timothy Leary was born on October 22,1920. He believed that all people should drop out of the war,work and school and everyone should do hallucinogens.
In 1955 R. Gordon Wasson discovered the first psilocybin mushrooms in Mexico. (Main chemical in LSD). Five years later Timothy Leary tries his first psilocybin mushrooms. This catches his interest and he decides to do research on the chemical. He begins his job as a professor at Harvard. In 1962 after Leary does his research on mushrooms and discovers that the chemical Psilocybin makes you hallucinate. …

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