LSD microdoses make people feel sharper, and scientists want to know how

Re:LSD microdoses make people feel sharper, and scientists w... by daddyo on Monday April 24, 2017 @02:21PM (#14186657)

> Once Project MKUltra officially got underway in April 1953, experiments included administering LSD to mental patients, prisoners, drug addicts and prostitutes—"people who could not fight back," as one agency officer put it. In one case LSD was administered to a mental patient in Kentucky for 174 days. LSD was also administered to CIA employees, military personnel, doctors, other government agents, and members of the general public in order to study their reactions. LSD and other drugs were usually administered without the subject's knowledge or informed consent, a violation of the Nuremberg Code that the U.S. agreed to follow after World War II. The aim of this was to find drugs which would irresistibly bring out deep confessions or wipe a subject's mind clean and program him or her as "a robot agent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra#Drugs

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Re:LSD microdoses make people feel sharper, and scientists w... by eric_h on Monday April 24, 2017 @06:40PM (#14189095)

I can't even imagine what it would be like to be administered a hallucinogen surreptitiously in a age where zero recreational use of said hallucinogens gave literally no one a chance to be prepared to explain what the hell was going on in their brains.

I'm reasonably certain that if someone slipped me something now, thanks to youthful experimentation I'd at least catch on to what was going on pretty quickly, but I can't imagine experiencing that with literally no frame of reference.

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Re:LSD microdoses make people feel sharper, and scientists w... by theoh on Monday April 24, 2017 @07:36PM (#14189443)

Consider non-drug-related psychosis. It happens to people (young people) all the time, and they're in exactly the position you refer to: no way to describe it or to perform reality tests.

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