Military's chemical experiments on soldiers detailed in new documentary
Sarah K. Burris
June 09, 2022
A new documentary titled "Dr. Delirium and The Edgewood Experiments" walks through the American military's 20-year experiments on people using psychedelic drugs like PCP and LSD along with other chemicals like sarin, VX and teargas.
Dr. James Ketchum, the documentary's main subject, died in 2019, leaving behind two decades of research where he experimented on young soldiers. Videos of those experiments are part of the documentary, The Guardian revealed after viewing archival footage.
Soldiers exposed to the drugs exhibited behavior consistent with hallucinogenic drugs. However, some of the other substances led to temporary blindness, and some of the soldiers tried to physically harm themselves.
One of the concoctions used by Dr. Ketchum was quinuclidinyl benzilate (BZ), which incapacitates the user. It blocks biological responses, quickens the heart rate to abnormal levels, and overheats the user. It's only recently that researchers are discovering the lingering effects the drugs had after the fact. There were such tight restrictions on what happened at the Edgewood Arsenal, a classified army facility in Maryland.
https://www.rawstory.com/documentary-hallucinogenic-experiments-military/
