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- In article <C45JI4.K5M@news.cso.uiuc.edu> manderso@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (anderson mark david) writes:
- >I remember reading somewhere that the average price for a gallon of
- >pure liquid LSD was $80,000.
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- Do you have any source for this? It seems like a ridiculously large
- amount.
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- >Sounds good? I'd hate to think what they'd do to you if you were
- >caught with a gallon.
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- If caught you could always chug it. :-)
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- Speaking of LSD, here is some interesting information from the new 3rd
- edition of the Psychedelics Encyclopedia, which I happened to spot on
- the new book shelf here at UCR's library.
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- "LSD is a very curious chemical. When given by injection, it disappears
- rapidly from the blood. It can be observed when tagged with carbon 14
- in all the tissues, particularly the liver, spleen, kidneys and adrenal
- glands. The concentration found in the brain is lower than in any other
- organ - being only about 0.01 percent of the administered dose. Sidney
- Cohen, in The Beyond Within, has estimated that an average dose results
- in only some 3,700,000 molecules of LSD (about 2/100ths of a microgram
- crossing the blood-brain barrier..." (Does this sound reasonable?)
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- "The Army engaged in covert "field operations" overseas. A notorious
- example is the torture of James Thornwell, a black American soldier in
- France, who was suspected of having stolen classified documents in 1961.
- We will probably never know the full story on at least nine others,
- refered to as "foreign nationals," whoe were subjected to the Army's LSD
- interrogation project, "Operation THIRD CHANCE."
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- Thornwell, then twenty-two, was first exposed to extreme stress, which
- included beatings, solitary confinement, denial of water, food and
- sanitary facilities and steady verbal abuse. After six weeks, he was
- given LSD without his knowledge. The interrogators threatened
- "to extend [his shattered] state indefinitely," according to an Army
- document dug up later, "even to a permanent condition of insanity." In
- the late 1970s, Thornwell sued the US governmnent for $10 million; the
- US House of Representatives approved a compromise settlement of $650,000
- in 1980."
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- This is a very interesting book.
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