Well now, this is a change…well at least a policy change. ;)
Apparently, the Army is running an experiment that would give ecstacy to its soldiers who are suffering from the syndrome that was called shellshock in World War I, Combat Neurosis in World War II and Korea, Combat Fatigue in Vietnam and Post-tramautic Stress Syndrome in Gulf War I and currently. The “lovey dovey” feeling that ecstacy takers experience when high is something that the Army is looking at to help soldiers cope.
Hat tip: Outside the Beltway
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David Nick 02.19.05 at 4:13 pm
If they thought tailhook was a scandal, what do you think this will be?
David Nick 02.19.05 at 5:13 pm
If they thought tailhook was a scandal, what do you think this will be?
David Nick 02.19.05 at 5:13 pm
If they thought tailhook was a scandal, what do you think this will be?
Vinnie Garcia 02.20.05 at 1:19 pm
This is a continuation of a lot of work that the government and private psychologists have done on hallucinogens over the past 50 years. MDMA (the active ingredient in Ecstacy) has been used as a weight-loss formula (when Merck first discovered it back in 1913), as a healing/truth serum by psychologists in the 1950s and 60s (like acid was), and lots of other uses. It does little harm in low and infrequent doses, and a lot of the research done on ecstacy that “proves” its harm has been misled (i.e. the “holes in your brain” trials on mice was done with a much higher than average dose, and was done with amphetamines and not MDMA).
Scandal? Why? Hell, if anything it proves that the government has been way too aggresive in putting drugs on Schedule 1 over the last 20 or so years, and that they should do more research into the good and bad aspects of a drug before dismissing it.
Vinnie Garcia 02.20.05 at 2:19 pm
This is a continuation of a lot of work that the government and private psychologists have done on hallucinogens over the past 50 years. MDMA (the active ingredient in Ecstacy) has been used as a weight-loss formula (when Merck first discovered it back in 1913), as a healing/truth serum by psychologists in the 1950s and 60s (like acid was), and lots of other uses. It does little harm in low and infrequent doses, and a lot of the research done on ecstacy that “proves” its harm has been misled (i.e. the “holes in your brain” trials on mice was done with a much higher than average dose, and was done with amphetamines and not MDMA).
Scandal? Why? Hell, if anything it proves that the government has been way too aggresive in putting drugs on Schedule 1 over the last 20 or so years, and that they should do more research into the good and bad aspects of a drug before dismissing it.
Vinnie Garcia 02.20.05 at 2:19 pm
This is a continuation of a lot of work that the government and private psychologists have done on hallucinogens over the past 50 years. MDMA (the active ingredient in Ecstacy) has been used as a weight-loss formula (when Merck first discovered it back in 1913), as a healing/truth serum by psychologists in the 1950s and 60s (like acid was), and lots of other uses. It does little harm in low and infrequent doses, and a lot of the research done on ecstacy that “proves” its harm has been misled (i.e. the “holes in your brain” trials on mice was done with a much higher than average dose, and was done with amphetamines and not MDMA).
Scandal? Why? Hell, if anything it proves that the government has been way too aggresive in putting drugs on Schedule 1 over the last 20 or so years, and that they should do more research into the good and bad aspects of a drug before dismissing it.
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