The Billion-Dollar Barrel of LSD, and Other Insanities of the U.S. Army’s Cold War...

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The Billion-Dollar Barrel of LSD, and Other Insanities of the U.S. Army’s Cold War Drug Experiments
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Dec 10, 2012 11:05 AM

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Once, Ketchum walked into his office and found a barrel the size of an oil drum standing in a corner. No one explained why it was in his office, or who had put it there. After a couple of days, he waited until evening and opened it. Inside, he found dozens of small glass vials, each containing a precisely measured amount of pure LSD; he figured there was enough to make several hundred million people go bonkers-and later calculated the street value of the barrel to be roughly a billion dollars. At the end of the week, the barrel vanished just as mysteriously as it had appeared.
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Apologies for the stale article. I'm not sure if it was posted here already but it's kinda interesting.
 
I have to call bullshit. I am well aware all the crooked shit our government has done to its own citizens and soldiers, as well as to other peoples as well (the French town dosed with LSD by the CIA).

While I don't doubt the government did in fact have barrels of pharm LSD, I can't imagine that they would just leave said unlocked barrel in some random guy’s office for him to investigate.

However, maybe I am giving the government to much credit and they actually are that incompetent.
 
i can believe it. the CIA has torture planes flying tonnes of cocaine around and the edgewood arsenal has just about every chemical known to man. add that to all the weird drug experiminets the gov has done on said citizens, soldiers ect i could believe a barrel full of lsd vials.
 
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