DRUGGING THE MILITARY

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DRUGGING THE MILITARY http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.net/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=174724

Posted By: CuriousMonday, 9 April 2007, 5:05 a.m.

 

Army doctors gave soldier volunteers synthetic marijuana, LSD and two dozen other psychoactive drugs during experiments aimed at developing chemical weapons that could incapacitate enemy soldiers, a psychiatrist who performed the research says in a new memoir. The program, which ran at the Army's Edgewood, Md., arsenal from 1955 until about 1972, concluded that counterculture staples such as acid and pot were either too unpredictable or too mellow to be useful as weapons, psychiatrist James Ketchum said in an interview. The program did yield one hallucinogenic weapon: softball-size artillery rounds that were filled with powdered quinuclidinyl benzilate or BZ, a deliriant of the belladonnoid family that had placed some research subjects in a sleeplike state and left them impaired for days. Ketchum says the BZ bombs were stockpiled at an Army arsenal in Arkansas but never deployed. They were later destroyed. The Army acknowledged the program's existence in 1975. Follow-up studies by the Army in 1978 and the National Academy of Sciences in 1981 found that volunteers suffered no long-term effects. *SNIP* http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-04-05-army-experiments_N.htm This article doesn't say enough about the soldiers who were administered drugs unknowingly. I had a very close friend who was an artistic genius and intellectually amazing in his 'sane' moments. As a result of the experiments, he developed severe manic/depression among other things. He spent the remainder of his life on disability, in and out of VA hospitals, existing on drugs to help mask the symptoms and a part of him lost forever. Someone needs to know about the victims.