Timothy Leary's papers purchased by New York Public Library

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The New York Times reports that the New York Public Library have purchased 335 boxes of papers, videotapes, photographs and more from Timothy Leary's estate.

"Robert Greenfield, who combed through the archive when it was kept in California, for his 2007 biography of Leary, said: “It is a unique firsthand archive of the 1960s. Leary was at the epicenter of what was going on back then, and some of the stuff in there is extraordinary.”

Teenagers 'killed by mephedrone' never actually took the drug

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The Guardian reports that toxicology tests have now shown that the two teenagers whose deaths were "caused by mephedrone", and which led to a tabloid-fuelled moral panic resulting in a knee-jerk ban from the Labour government, never took the now-banned drug.

Maybe I missed it, but I haven't seen many tabloids correcting their earlier lies misreporting...

Pentagon documents on CIA's secret drug-based mind-control programmes released

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There's some background to the projects at the Wired Danger Room article "Chemical Concussions and Secret LSD: Pentagon Details Cold War Mind-Control Tests".

Politicians and drugs - why can't they get it right? Another expert resigns from the ACMD.

Eric Carlin is the latest expert to resign from the UK government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, clearly unhappy with the way the our politicians base important decisions on drugs on how many favourable tabloid headlines and votes they think they'll get out of it.  Read his letter of resignation here.

Another senior drugs advisor quits over UK government's treatment of advice

Resignation 'threatens drug ban'

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Mephedrone is legal and widely available

Another senior government drugs adviser has quit, hours before ministers were expected to ban a new "legal high".

The resignation of Dr Polly Taylor from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs has sparked speculation that the ban on mephedrone could be delayed.

Lib Dem science spokesman Dr Evan Harris said Home Secretary Alan Johnson's ban would have to wait until the council was "properly constituted".

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