MAPS: Correction on elephant's death

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My version of how the animal died was based on Stan Grof's description at an
Esalen seminar in the mid-eighties.  I still stand by my version that Jolly
used this incident to infiltrate a hippie commune and befriend psychedelic
artists, because I heard the lecture and saw the slides myself.  Bob Jesse
corrected details of my previous posting about the death of the elephant:


sorry, can't send this one out to the entheogen list as-is.  i think
there's a good chance that it contains more rumor than substantiated fact.

re the elephant:  the writeup (in SCIENCE, Vol 138) says that the
injection was given "into the gluteal muscles" -- far from the jugular.
maybe west was lying but the account also says that the entire procedure
was recorded on motion-picture film and noted by observers.  the writeup
gives a detailed account of what happened after the LSD injection --
several phases of distress and two pharmacological attempts to rescusitate
the elephant.  it says that death occurred 1 hour and 40 minutes after the
LSD injection.  nothing in the writeup (including the autopsy report)
gives any evidence that "trauma" from the injection itself was a factor in
the animal's death.

I

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