OSCAR JANIGER, 83, PSYCHIATRIST, ADVOCATE FOR PSYCHEDELIC DRUG LSD

TORRANCE (AP) -- Psychiatrist Oscar Janiger, a pioneering advocate of
the use of psychedelic drugs who was credited with turning on Cary
Grant and numerous other celebrities to LSD, has died at 83.

Mr. Janiger died Tuesday of kidney and heart failure at Little Company
of Mary Hospital in Torrance.

Between 1954 and 1962, "Oz," as he was known to friends, administered
almost 3,000 doses of LSD to 1,000 volunteers. Among them were Grant,
fellow actors Jack Nicholson and Rita Moreno, author Aldous Huxley and
musician Andre Previn.

He bought the drug, then legal, from Swiss pharmaceutical manufacturer
Sandoz Laboratories and administered it at his Los Angeles office.

Although his work predated that of LSD guru Timothy Leary, he never
gained widespread recognition for it.

"The tragedy about Oscar is he never published his data," Rick
Strassman, a New Mexico scientist, told the Los Angeles Times.

Mr. Janiger, who took the drug 13 times, said he was interested in
LSD's link to creativity and what he called the ability to access a
state of crazy consciousness without losing control of one's
surroundings.

"It really took me out of a state in which I saw the boundaries of
myself and the world around me very rigorously prescribed, to a state
in which I saw that many, many things were possible," he once said.

He abandoned his own LSD studies in 1962, however, after the federal
government began investigating researchers.