Comments on: LSD being tested on British troops (video)

By: Palash Davé

Palash Davé — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:30:24 +0000

Is this real or a rather good fake, though? A [very] cursory interweb search reveals nothing conclusive.

By: LOGAN

LOGAN — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:43:19 +0000

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ryansomma.com » Blog Archive » Science Etcetera Moonday, 20080204 — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:27:10 +0000

[...] Check out this old film of LSD being Tested on British Troops, I really hope those guns aren’t loaded (HT Science Punk): [...]

By: MC

MC — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:36:51 +0000

I give out a weekly award for the strangest thing I've seen on a blog, and this week, SciencePunk has won the Homer Simpson Transmundanity Award for this particular post. Congratulations Frank. You can read the writeup here.

By: Kaye Mara

Kaye Mara — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:46:25 +0000

UK Troops on LSD 1950’s style.

2008, just go to any nightclub in Portsmouth, Plymouth, Aldershot or any other military town on a Friday or Saturday night – and see squaddies, sailors and airmen high on Cocaine and Ecstasy – everywhere….

I speak from previous experience ;-)

ps How to beat Al-Quaeda / Taliban / Bad Guys around the world? Just get jets to spray them from above with Acid soaked water…. wait 60 mins….. send in Prince Harry and Army pals dressed as the Teletubbies!

Instant Surrender! No Deaths, “collateral damage” etc and all infrastructure etc intact!

By: jaxsun

jaxsun — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:04:17 +0000

yeah it must be to see if giving it to the enemy would effect them, i guess it would.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:58:46 +0000

Chris’ comments notwithstanding, testing on troops makes a great deal of sense, from a strictly experimental point of view.
You have a broad subject pool with a pretty reliable physiological baseline, generally fit and healthy; well-trained subjects performing familiar tasks at which they are presumably competent; predisposed to adapting to unusual situations; and with well-defined baseline behavior. There is the aforementioned camaraderie, and a familiar operating environment. These factors can reduce a lot of the unpredictability of human behavior, compared to say, the same number of college students. They would presumably have been pre-screened medically, eliminating or reducing physical, mental or emotional conditions that might have a bearing on the effects of the drug in question. Just make sure the weapons aren’t loaded!

By: chris

chris — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:57:17 +0000

They were testing it because back in the day when chemical warfare was just being introduced, they needed to know the effect on troops for non-fatal chemicals, including LSD, cannibis (marijuana) and other drugs like that. it’s simple enough to make those drugs into a vapor. if you don’t want to kill the enemy troops, just disable them, than LSD would be the way to go, huh?

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:33:00 +0000

Sounds like a good ass time to me. “let me shoot the color cannon into the rainbow sun!, hey anyone wanna trade me my shirt for a grilled cheese?”

By: gurnus

gurnus — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:16:35 +0000

“as well it is usually naturally more enjoyable when your are not alone, as then as a group u share the experience”

also, keep in mind, that they were not only a
group, but a group with a more than likely
higher than average sense of camraderie
(sp?)
being with people that you know very well and
trust makes acid a lot easier to take, so to
speak