Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
 

Created by the C.I.A. ?

AFAIK, created accidentally by a Swiss scientist (Hoffman) before the CIA was even a glint in Wild Bill Donovan's eye.

So the C.I.A were just distributers.
I am reading some excerts from a guy named Steve Abrams, an American, who left the University of Chicago in 1960 to matriculate at Oxford, and is a recognized authority on LSD.

According to Abrams, he was studying ESP at Oxford when he was contacted by a man named Robert Lashbrook, who was with a Washington D.C. organisation called the human Ecology Fund.
At first, Lashbrook professed interest in his ESP experiments, but subsequently, at a meeting that included Lashbrooks boss, Dr. sidney Gottlieb, it was revealed that the HEF was actually a branch of the CIA and that its chief mission was to test a new drug, LSD.
The CIA was buying the drug in large amounts from a Swiss-based pharmaceutical firm, Sandoz Laboratories.
In fact, the CIA, Abrams discovered, was to buy Sandoz's entire production of LSD-a mamooth ten kilos, which over time, would have been enough to have turned on the ENTIRE Western world.

"mind control the easiest way, sponsored by the CIA.....I'm not crazy, you're the one that's crazy"

Been listening to Suicidal Tendencies lately? ;)

Hey, I think this thread should be attached the Wall Street protestors threads. Those protestors are the experts on drugs.

I worked for the GOP in DC back in the late 90's. Druggy central.

Knine on the Tendancy crew, but I did see 'Jacob's Ladder' recently.
Now that was an interesting concept.

I'm quite sure Larry doesn't believe you.

Actually I do. Drugs have completely permeated just about all walks of life in this country. It's a very sad thing to see.

Drugs are often crucial elements in religious experience. You might find them helpful as a supplement to the Bible.

Yes, there are some isolated groups that worship snakes too. Do you think that all churches do this?

I took a fair amount of LSD in the 1960's. I'm still waiting for the free flashbacks.

So far, no joy.

you were cheated.....:D

Other than your fear and need to disparage them with cheapshots, what makes them experts, when as you say, "drugs have permeated just about all walks of life"? Either they're the experts, or just about everybody is. Which is it?

Once again the bible thumping man displays how little he knows. Therapists are again experimenting with LSD, particularly with people nearing the end of their earthly days, sort of in hospice settings. Word is that many people are reporting profound experiences.

Yup, I done it myself back in '71 and '72. You have to try it to really get it. It's an unexpectedly interesting experience. It does sap the energy stores so doing it too often is not good. Timothy Leary was a wild eyed fool and burnt himself out on it.

But I'm sorry, this blanket sneering by them who almost certainly don't really know a thing about it is tiresome.

I'm already tired.

Abrams continues...........
 

`DR. GOTTLIEB WAS in charge of an operation called MX-ULTRA, whose purpose was to find out how LSD could change a persons behavior by covert means. Specifically, the CIA wanted to know if, by administering LSD to a captured enemy agent, they could break down his resistance and get him to reveal his secrets. And if that wasnt possible, they conversly wanted to know if they gave LSD tablets to our own agents to take in the event of capture, would it scramble their minds that they couldnt reveal the secrets they knew to their captors.

Gottlieb honestly believed that LSD was going to completely change the worlds espionage methods.

I had no idea LSD is once again being used in an medical application.

My understanding is that the drug unplugs receptors in the brains neurons, and plugs them back into differant receptor locations.

So, in essance, while taking a trip one may 'smell a color-or see a sound'.

I'm in agreement with you there.