Mike And All Edgewood Arsenal

[Berta]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/20...periments_N.htm

By Richard Willing, USA TODAY

"Army doctors gave soldier volunteers synthetic marijuana, LSD and two dozen other psychoactive drugs during experiments aimed at developing chemical weapons that could incapacitate enemy soldiers, a psychiatrist who performed the research says in a new memoir."

full story above

"The program, which ran at the Army's Edgewood, Md., arsenal from 1955 until about 1972, concluded that counterculture staples such as acid and pot were either too unpredictable or too mellow to be useful as weapons, psychiatrist James Ketchum said in an interview.

The program did yield one hallucinogenic weapon: softball-size artillery rounds that were filled with powdered quinuclidinyl benzilate or BZ, a deliriant of the belladonnoid family that had placed some research subjects in a sleeplike state and left them impaired for days."

I found the 1982 study that was done on Edgewood Arsenal vets as to long term affects of these drugs-

but this study didnt mention the LSD as far as I can tell.

http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=740&page=R1

Couldn't LSD alone contribute to heart disease long after the fact?

I wonder what else they did.

[Testvet]

no it doesn't Berta and thanks you will also notice the "good" doctor never bothered to mention the March 2003 Sarin report from the IOM based on the Edgewood veterans that show 40% are dead 2098 men and of the 4022 survivors 54% or another 2200 men are disabled also the 1985 study shows that of the known 385 deaths there were more than 40 men in their early 40's and late 30's that died from heart attacks so they ignored cardiovascular problems on the 2003 study. DOD knows how to word contracts for their reports nothing more and nothing less

[Guest jangrin]

no it doesn't Berta and thanks you will also notice the "good" doctor never bothered to mention the March 2003 Sarin report from the IOM based on the Edgewood veterans that show 40% are dead 2098 men and of the 4022 survivors 54% or another 2200 men are disabled also the 1985 study shows that of the known 385 deaths there were more than 40 men in their early 40's and late 30's that died from heart attacks so they ignored cardiovascular problems on the 2003 study. DOD knows how to word contracts for their reports nothing more and nothing less

Mike,

I know your web site is not up any more. But every time I read anything having to do with Edgewood I get a visual picture on my mind of you sitting there with that god awful mask on your face breathing in whatever it was that they were having you breath.

I find what they did to you and your fellow soldiers to be absolutely criminal. I really wish I had the ability to do something that would help you and the other victims of this crime to humanity our government calls "tests".

I apologize for being emotional about this but I truly had no idea our government did these sorts of things and I really believe I went into shock when I went to your website.

Thank you for making me aware, I am usually not so naive but in this situation I was. If there is ever anything that a veterans wife can do to help the Edgewood vets, please let me know.

Jangrin

Edited April 6, 2007 by jangrin (see edit history)

[Testvet]

thank you for your support the criminal part is the DOD and VA will not honestly address the medical problems related to the experiments, everything from them is either a fabrication, distortion or flat out lie, they have never been truthful about it, much like the Nuclear tests, the SHAD/112 tests or anything else they can claim is still classified.