LSD Experiments on troops: Very, very wrong.
Published by violet April 19th, 2008 in "Science", DrugsIt is really really bad to do pharmaceutical experiments on soldiers. It’s obviously wrong to perform such experiments on anyone without really strong checks for safety and informed consent.
But, y’know, if the experiments have already been done, we may as well admit that the results are, in some cases, basically hilarious.
“But one hour and ten minutes after taking the drug, with one man climbing a tree to feed the birds, the troop commander gave up.”
Comedy—a more relevant concern than justice in every way? Discuss.
You sign away a lot of your Constitutional rights when you enlist. Sad but true. They actually sit you down at one point in Basic training and list ‘em all out for you. (Let’s not talk about what happens when you take a bunch of sleep-deprived physically and mentally exhausted 18 year olds and let them actually sit down for a change in a warm quiet room where you then turn off the lights and turn on a video where some dude starts droning in a hypnotic monotone. Let’s just say that you don’t really catch a lot of what’s being said and let it go at that.) They did line us up at semi-regular intervals, have us bare an arm and then run up and down our ranks with a vaccination gun. If you were brave enough to ask What is that you’re injecting me with sir? your sergeant would usually interrupt with Shut up, Private..! So I still don’t really know what got plugged into my veins.
“It’s America, Private. America distilled. American condensed. America given form to be shot into your pretty lil’ undeserving veins. Made from the thickest excretions of football players and oil refineries, the liquid in this here vial is more American than you will ever be. So pony up that arm, Private. You ain’t anti-American, are ya?”
That’s creepy.
A friend of mine is heading to basic soon. I do, on occasion, wonder if I’ll see the same him again.