Psychedelics Research: 1963 Redux
By John Persinos
The last time the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA) experimented with psychedelics as a means of psychological therapy for troubled vets was in 1963.
That year, "Sugar Shack" was the number one rock and roll song; the second James Bond movie "From Russia, With Love" was breaking box office records; and President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.
Notably, in one study conducted in 1963, patients at a VA clinic in Kansas took lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) to treat alcoholism.
The early 1960s also was a time when the CIA and U.S. Army were experimenting with psychedelics on human subjects (many of them unwitting) as a possible method of mind control, via the CIA's MK-ULTRA program. The effort was eventually abandoned by the time Lyndon Johnson became president.
Fast forward to June 2022, and the VA once again began researching the psychological effects of psychedelics, but this time under far safer parameters (see the following tweet):
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