David Pally person
also: Polly, Pally
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“had been skeptical of the South American reports until he sent one of his students down to Peru on a summer project. In the spring of 1978, a first-year Yale med student by the name of David Pally, P-A-L-Y, came to Peck with an idea the sci…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 2 @ 27:02
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David Pally book_quoted
“You'd come around a corner and all you could do was smell it for miles. Alarm Polly called Beck at Yale and told him what he had seen. The substance of my conversation with Beck, if I can remember correctly, was that if this shit ever hits …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Part 2 @ 30:50
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had been skeptical of the South American reports until he sent one of his students down to Peru on a summer project. In the spring of 1978, a first-year Yale med student by the name of David Pally, P-A-L-Y, came to Peck with an idea the sci…
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coca leaf chewing Indians to see what it was that got the Indians high. Plenty had been written about the cultural aspect of the habit, but no one had ever done any real experiments about it. Polly, who had an interest in Peru from earlier …
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has a thesis requirement for being a doctor. It's the only medical school at the time that did. Coincidentally, Beck had recently gotten a letter from a prominent Peruvian neurosurgeon who proposed some cooperative research on cocaine. At t…
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and believed that the Indians were being harassed unfairly. He was looking for some scientific evidence to back up his arguments that the Indian social customs should be left alone. But Beck and the research committee liked Polly's idea, an…
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they took the young Yale student around Lima and introduced him to his friends in the art and science area. One of the men that Polly met through his liaison was Dr. Raul Jerry, who latched onto him and began telling him of his research int…
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insisted on showing Polly the wretched victims of this new drug. Mostly to humor his influential new acquaintance, Polly agreed to accompany him to the psychiatric institution. Polly left the hospital more doubtful than before. I interviewe…
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called a Polly drug abuser. I mean, the guy had done everything from Valium to Quaaludes. So I was very unimpressed with associating it with cocaine. Reading Jerry's studies did nothing to enhance Polly's opinion either. They were mainly ob…
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I began to hear about these friends who were dropping out of medical school, dropping out of college, and basically turning into cocaine addicts. They were good kids who had essentially abandoned their lives and turned to addicts. They were…
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You'd come around a corner and all you could do was smell it for miles. Alarm Polly called Beck at Yale and told him what he had seen. The substance of my conversation with Beck, if I can remember correctly, was that if this shit ever hits …