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So perhaps Leary's real sin was to have the courage of his convictions--his and everyone else's in the psychedelic research community. It's often said that a political scandal is when someone in power inadvertently speaks the truth. Leary was all too often willing to say out loud to anyone in earshot what everyone else believed but knew better than to speak or write candidly. It was one thing to use these drugs to treat the ill and maladjusted--society will indulge any effort to help the wayward individual conform to its norms--but it is quite another to use them to treat society itself as if it were sick and to turn the ostensibly healthy into wayward individuals.
So perhaps Leary's real sin was to have the courage of his convictions--his and everyone else's in the psychedelic research community. It's often said that a political scandal is when someone in power inadvertently speaks the truth. Leary was all too often willing to say out loud to anyone in earshot what everyone else believed but knew better than to speak or write candidly. It was one thing to use these drugs to treat the ill and maladjusted--society will indulge any effort to help the wayward individual conform to its norms--but it is quite another to use them to treat society itself as if it were sick and to turn the ostensibly healthy into wayward individuals.
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