Janiger, Oscar

Richard Alpert, Robert Anton Wilson and Oscar Janiger... 

In 1954, Santa Monica, California psychiatrist Oscar Janiger, M.D., purified DMT with Perry Bivens, and the pair became the first to observe the effects of this compound in humans through self administration. Janiger is also remembered for his eight-year naturalistic study on the clinical effects of LSD and his classic investigations in the 50s and early 60s on the role of LSD in the creative process. This latter program is noted for having involved many of that era s most celebrated talents as volunteer experimental sub-... 

Founded by Oscar Janiger, M.D., and psychotherapist Robert Zanger, the Hofmann Foundation has sponsored many noteworthy public gatherings and lecture events in the Los Angeles area. 

Sidney Cohen, one of the first to receive LSD in the Los Angeles area, who, according to Oscar Janiger, was instrumental in introducing the social use of LSD. Cohen produced an important early work on LSD, The Beyond Within, along with another that was quite influential, LSD, in which he and Richard Alpert addressed some 40 central questions raised by psychedelics. 

In 1954, Dr. Oscar Janiger, who had been interested in LSD since reading Stoll s first account, was given a chance to try the drug at a mountain retreat "From that moment on my mind didn t stop for one minute. He wrote Sandoz requesting LSD for a "naturalistic study and received a "materials grant (an ample supply). 

Dr. Oscar Janiger, who supervised several thousand administrations of LSD to 875 people. 

Hoffman s work led other scientists to begin experimenting with LSD. Between 1954 and 1962, an American researcher named Oscar Janiger gave the drug to 1,000 volunteers to observe its effects on the mind and body. 

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