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113 weeks." supplies. CO LABYRINTH * "How about Dave Nichols at Purdue?" He replied, "That's possible." "Could you and Dave talk with each other?" "Have Dr. Nichols write to the director, Dr. H. Here's his address. The name of the staff working on your request is Ms. M. Call her in two I felt something shift with that phone conversation. I called Dave Nichols. He quoted me a price of $300—just the cost of While all these calls were taking place, I knew that funding from outside the University was crucial for the project to gain all the legitimacy it needed. Additional financial support also would free up my time to find human- grade DMT and help the Research Center pay for some of the work I requested. This, in turn, would increase the Research Center's backing of the protocol. In looking over some of the old DMT and schizophrenia research, it appeared that the Scottish Rite Foundation, a branch of the Freemasons, had funded some of it through their Schizophrenia Research program. I asked this program to send an application for funding. My DMT proposal already discussed the importance of understanding DMT's effects in its possible role as an endogenous schizotoxin. Therefore, it took little work to modify the grant to emphasize these issues more clearly. I wrote Dr. Freedman, telling him of my grant submission to the Scot- tish Rite Foundation. He replied that he was on their scientific review committee, and "maybe" they would fund a year's support. Within a month, in September 1989, a notification of award arrived announcing a one-year grant for the project. I again wrote Dr. Freedman, updating him on the search for human- grade DMT. He scribbled a note on my letter and sent a copy of it to the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, one of his former stu- dents. His telegraphic missive ended: "Strassman needs someone at NIDA responsive. Any suggestions??"