wrote: Chocolate to Morphine: Everything You Need to Know about
Mind-Altering Drugs. and The Marriage of the Sun and Moon
Looks to me like he altered his brain a bit too much..
J
Andrew Weil, M.D. Date of birth: June 8, 1942
Print Biography

Andrew Weil was born in Philadelphia, received an A.B. degree in biology
(botany) from Harvard in 1964 and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in
1968. After completing a medical internship at Mt. Zion Hospital in San
Francisco, he worked for a year with the National Institute of Mental
Health, then wrote his first book, The Natural Mind.

From 1971 to 1984, he was on the research staff of the Harvard Botanical
Museum and conducted investigations of medicinal and psychoactive plants.
From 1971 to 1975, as a Fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs,
traveled throughout North and South America and Africa, collecting
information and specimens for this research.
Andrew Weil is the author of many scientific and popular articles and of
seven books: The Natural Mind; The Marriage of the Sun and Moon; From
Chocolate to Morphine (with Winifred Rosen); Health and Healing;  Natural
Health, Natural Medicine; Spontaneous Healing; and Eight Weeks to Optimum
Health. Dr. Weil also publishes a monthly newsletter, Dr. Andrew Weil's
Self Healing, maintains a popular website, "Ask Dr. Weil," on the
Time-Warner pathfinder network (www.drweil.com), and appears in two videos
featured on PBS: Spontaneous Healing and Eight Weeks to Optimum Health.
Dr. Weil lives near Tucson, Arizona.

Shades of....?
TIMOTHY LEARY WAS another early advocate of LSD experimentation. Leary
taught psychology at Harvard and by 1960 was doing experiments with LSD
and other hallucinogens, first on prison inmates and then on himself and
his friends. LSD was not illegal at the time. In 1960, Allen Ginsberg,
supervised by Leary, ingested psilocybin mushrooms, (under the influence
of the drug, he phoned Jack Kerouac, identifying himself as God to the
telephone operator), and began to spread the word about the new powerful
psychedelic drugs. When Harvard dismissed Leary in 1963, he set up the
Castalia Institute in Millbrook, New York, to continue his studies.
Leary's approach to taking LSD was the opposite of Ken Kesey's?Leary
believed in "set and setting," a practice of taking the drug in a
controlled environment, as a safeguard against bad trips. He coined the
phrase "Turn On, Tune In, and Drop Out," and formed the "League of
Spiritual Discovery," an LSD advocacy group. In the mid sixties, he began
attending numerous musical events and public forums that promoted the use
of LSD. Leary spent a number of years in prison for various charges
related to drug possession.

Was this in his earlier and sillier days?    Nowadays  Andrew Weil promotes
"integrative medicine" where the "alternative" works alongside conventional
medicine.

Such shared responsibility is an ideal arrangement for those with quaint
ideas about medicine.    You have no real responsibility for outcomes and
no need to prove anything you claim.   You can  claim credit for any good
outcomes, and allot the blame elsewhere for the bad.

You can sling off endlessly against doctors who have to get out of bed in
the middle of the night to save lives and who have the primary
responsibility for dealing with tough illnesses.      You can even call them
meaningless names (all medicine that is not homeopathy is "allopathic",
including all "alternative" medicine).

Peter Moran

If he'd contracted cancer or any other disease, he wouldn't be looking for
preventative medicine anyway........