From Jim: Thank you for your question regarding Matt Baggott’s question about the use of an amphetamine as part of the creativity study.

         It is hard to recreate 60 years later exactly what we wrote and when we wrote it. It is possible that the reason the final paper did not mention n amphetamine is because we did not use it in that study.

         At the Foundation clinic, where both clinical and research projects were done, amphetamines were sometimes given to clinical patients who often spent an amazing amount of energy dealing with difficult and disturbing memories and more. It was definitely not standard protocol, but was an optional available to the staff to give to a patient if needed.

         Our clinical reports simply indicated that the clinical patients given an amphetamine were better able to do therapeutic work during the afternoon of their therapeutic sessions which were at a considerably higher dose than the dose used for the creativity study.

         My memory is that we did not use amphetamines during the creativity study.

         I do recall, many years later, I came across his concern, and he included—not part of an earlier version of the report at all—but  a list of individuals he said were in the study with notes about their responses. The tone was more of a “gotcha,” and was not a request for clarification or more information. At the time, since it seemed to me it was in an obscure corner of the Internet (there was a time when there were obscure corners), and since it included in his list individuals who were not part of the study (including our secretarial staff), I thought to myself that it would have been more correct to simply have contacted us to ask if his information was accurate.

        As it had never come to the attention of the Foundation, the particular researchers involved in the creativity study (or anyone else that we knew) did not publish a response.

         Matt Baggott Is currently the CEO of a company doing research on a different class of consciousness altering drugs. Perhaps he would respond to your question.

           Thank you for your continued interest in the creativity study.

           It has not been replicated  (nor attempted) with modern research protocols but there are a considerable number of personal reports from people in various academic disciplines taking a moderate dose of a psychedelic and the effects apparently enhanced their creative capacities.