An Analysis of CIA and Military Testing of LSD on Non-Consenting US Service Members and Recovery Through the VA Disability System

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Summary

Discovering that the United States government has experimented on unwitting and un-consenting American citizens is a difficult pill to swallow, especially when some of those American citizens are United States Armed Forces service members. This scenario begs the question: what happens now? Now that the U.S. government has finished its classified experimentation, where does this leave the soldier who wanted to defend and serve his country, but is now a victim of his government? Where does this leave “the happy warrior”?

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Disbennett, B. M. (2015). An analysis of CIA and military testing of LSD on non-consenting U.S. service members and recovery through the VA disability system. Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice, 3(2). doi:10.2139/ssrn.2416478