Shame On Project Artichoke...!

We have talked before about some of the Government sponsored experimental programs and the harm many of them caused. Here is yet another example of such a project.

LSD And Morphine Experimentation

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On April 20, 1950, the CIA officially approved Project BLUEBIRD, which was later renamed Project ARTICHOKE. The agency was investigating interrogation techniques in order to create amnesia and new identities as well as new memories in experimental subjects’ minds. Part of the research entailed giving them morphine in order to create an addiction followed by a subsequent withdrawal.

The experiments were conducted by leading psychiatrists, neurosurgeons, and pharmacologists in North America. Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the program was when the agency experimented on children aged 7–11 years old, giving them 150 micrograms of LSD per day for weeks and months at a time. The details of the research only came to light in 15,000 pages of documentation obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

You know, the more I read about some of the so-called "Scientific" projects sponsored by our own government, be it past or present, the more I am disturbed by all of them.

Coffee inside due to more stormy weather.