Wed, 02 Dec 2009

LSD and Whaaaaat?

Okay, I had intended to continue my TV review series (yes, it will be a series!) with my very next post, but I ran across this today and cannot let it pass without comment. I was reading an interestingly-titled article at The Huffington Post, "Soldiers On Acid: 1963 British VIDEO Shows Troops Under The Influence Of LSD", and of course I watched the associated video clip. It's an interesting fragment apparently taken from a documentary about an experiment the British Army did on the effects of LSD from a combat perspective. As in, if we gave it to our soldiers, would they become supermen? If we gave it to the enemy, would they lose combat effectiveness? They dosed what looked like a platoon of Tommies with acid, then noted, "After thirty-five minutes ... the efficiency of the rocket-launcher team was also very impaired."

Now, I don't know all the effects of LSD, but I do know that one thing you don't want to mix with acid is ... rocket launchers. In the clip, they had a dude actually playing with one, but I can only hope they didn't give him live ammo. Anybody who's ever done acid is well advised to watch the clip, but unless you want it to shoot out your nose, don't be drinking anything while you do.

"We gave a bunch of guys acid and rocket launchers. What could possibly go wrong?"

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