Chemical Warfare Secrets Almost Forgotten
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J.S. Ketchum
J.S. Ketchum
Documenting a Lost Decade of Clinical Research
TenZenMonkeys - Hallucinogenic Weapons - The Other Chemical Warfare
transcript of Interview of author by RUSirius on 10 Jan 07
CounterPunch: - Fred Gardner describes information given by Dr. Ketchum cannabis research at Edgewood Arsenal in the 1958-66 period. Presented to California Cannabis Clinicians meeting in Los Angeles.
(24 March 2007)
transcript of Interview of author by RUSirius on 10 Jan 07
CounterPunch: - Fred Gardner describes information given by Dr. Ketchum cannabis research at Edgewood Arsenal in the 1958-66 period. Presented to California Cannabis Clinicians meeting in Los Angeles.
(24 March 2007)
James S. Ketchum, MD
A MEMOIR OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS RESEARCH - Secrecy News - 25 March 07
Beginning in the mid-1950s, the U.S. Army conducted research involving thousands of human subjects on various chemical agents, including LSD, BZ and marijuana derivatives, to assess their utility for chemical warfare applications. > more
Beginning in the mid-1950s, the U.S. Army conducted research involving thousands of human subjects on various chemical agents, including LSD, BZ and marijuana derivatives, to assess their utility for chemical warfare applications. > more
RESEARCHERS TESTED POT, LSD ON ARMY VOLUNTEERS
“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...
(USA Today,
05Apr07, Richard Willing) > more
“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...
(USA Today,
05Apr07, Richard Willing) > more