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until stocks were destroyed in 1989. Both the US and Britain concluded that the desired effects of drug weapons were unpredictable under battlefield conditions and gave up experimentation.
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of Virginia, an unidentified, but toxic and hallucinogenic, drug derived from local plants was deployed with some success against the white settlers by
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The use of chemicals to induce altered states of mind dates back to antiquity and includes the use of plants such as thornapple (
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Although never developed into an effective weapons system, psychochemical warfare theory and research—along with overlapping
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territory in North Africa ate dried dates that tribesmen had apparently deliberately contaminated with Egyptian henbane (
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have been considered unreliable given the apparent absence of documentation in state archives.
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Dando M, Furmanski M 2006. Mid-spectrum incapacitant programs. In: Wheelis M et al. (eds).
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Rózsa L 2009 A psychochemical weapon considered by the Warsaw Pact: a research note.
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developed or deployed similar agents during the same period remains largely unknown.
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Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation
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Project MKULTRA subproject 8 on the use of LSD as a pyschochemical weapon
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was also investigating the possible use of LSD and the chemical BZ (
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drug research—was secretly pursued in the mid-20th century by the
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and involved studies of several hundred volunteer test subjects.
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Psychochemical weaponry
A page of a document from Project MKULTRA subproject 8 on the use of LSD as a pyschochemical weapon
psychopharmacological
mind-altering drugs or chemicals
hallucinations
delirium
chemical weapons
incapacitating agent
mind control
US military
Central Intelligence Agency
Cold War
Soviet Union
Datura stramonium
anticholinergic alkaloids
Hannibal
belladonna
Jamestown Colony
Chief Powhatan
Tuareg
Hyoscyamus muticus
LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)
Project MKUltra
US Army
Edgewood Arsenal human experiments
U.S. chemical warfare program
Britain
3-quinuclidinyl benzilate
M43 BZ cluster bomb
Soviet bloc

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