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Sidney

Cohen, MD (7 Jun 1910, New

York City – 8 May 1987, Santa Monica) was a psychiatrist, professor of medicine, and

author, known as a leading expert on LSD, marijuana, cocaine, and other

mood altering drugs. Cohen graduated from Columbia University as

a pharmacist in 1930. After study at the City College of New York,

he then studied medicine in Germany, where he received in 1938 his medical

degree from the University of Bonn. He did

his medical internship at Queens General Hospital in

New York City. After completing his internship he joined the U.S. Army Medical

Corps, extensively participated in the WW II Pacific campaign, and was

eventually promoted to colonel. (He served as a colonel in the U.S. Army

Reserves until he retired from the Army in 1963.) After the end of WW II, he completed his

residency at Wadsworth VA Hospital in

Los Angeles. At Wadsworth VA Hospital, he became the chief of psychiatric

service. There he was the Assistant Chief of Medical

Service from 1948 to 1960. When UCLA's medical school was started in the late

1940s, many Wadsworth VA physicians served as faculty. At the UCLA School

of Medicine, Cohen became in 1954 a faculty member and served as an

associate clinical professor until 1970. From 1968 to 1970 he was on academic

leave of absence when he was appointed by Richard Nixon in 1968 as the first

director of the NIMH's

Division of Narcotic Abuse and Drug Addiction. Cohen returned to the UCLA School of Medicine

in 1970 when he was promoted to clinical professor. He was the author or

co-author of a number of books and over 300 articles. In

the 1950s he was a pioneer in research on LSD. He did research on barbiturates,

amphetamines, and tranquilizers, as well as hallucinogens. Sidney

Cohen is perhaps most well-known in popular culture for LSD experiments he

conducted with Keith Ditman, Betty Eisner and Gerald Heard, based on correspondence with Humphrey Osmond, in the mid-1950s. Cohen also conducted a

number of very loosely-controlled experiments with LSD, resulting in

descriptions of LSD experiences. Cohen provided LSD to Clare Boothe Luce and Bill Wilson, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, among numerous

others. After becoming convinced that use of LSD could be dangerous,

particularly if unsupervised, Cohen maintained a public anti-LSD stance and

sometimes testy discourse with Timothy

Leary. Cohen

also provided the LSD used by Aldous Huxley in his deathbed experience and advocated

LSD research, particularly for the terminally ill, until his own death in 1987. Upon

his death he was survived by his widow, Ilse, a daughter, Dorothy, and a son,

Richard.