Ep. 125 LSD: How This “Wonder Drug” Cycled Its Way Through Medical, Government, and Counterculture Communities

Discovered accidentally in the 1930s, studied as a possible psychiatric wonder drug, used by the CIA in highly unethical clandestine mind control experiments for project MKUltra during the cold war, adopted by the counterculture hippies of the summer of love, LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is viewed by some for its potential to expand human consciousness and promote peace and by others for its potential to completely destroy our society. But how can it be both? How can it be all of these things? Let’s fix that.

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Sources:

• History.com "History of LSD"
• Harvard University "A Long, Strange Trip"
• Clemson University "LSD Throughout Time"
• National Library of Medicine "LSD: a new treatment emerging from the past"
• Wikipedia "History of LSD"
• History.com "The CIA's Appalling Human Experiments with Mind Control"
• Smithsonian Magazine "What We Know About the CIA's Midcentury Mind Control Project"
• The Harvard Crimson "Harvard LSD Research Draws National Attention"

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