Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] Harold Abramson and the Dr Strangelove of the whole shebang, Dr Sidney Gottlieb. Like his associates, Gottlieb saw his work – this included dosing unwitting subjects with LSD, many of whom would suffer from psychological scars for the rest of their life, and some who even died – as entirely justified in the interests […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] ‘synthemesc’, ‘drencrom’ and ‘vellocet’.10 10 The relationship between MKUltra and the psychedelic sixties has been the subject of great speculation. At one extreme, it is theorised that LSD ‘escaped’ the laboratory as a result of careless procedures and poor safeguarding; at the other it is suggested that Continues at the foot of the next […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] and violent gang behaviour. In the course of 1967, the Acid culture of peace-and-love hippiedom gave way to the violent culture of speed-freakery. Significantly, Manson employed excessive LSD tripping and promiscuity to ‘program’ his cult recruits, but later their drug of choice was speed. The HAFMC was founded in June 1967 by another ‘Smith’. […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] in 1951. Another of Beecher’s objectives was to identify scientists who could be recruited for secret work back in the US. Schmidt then goes on to discuss LSD experiments with service personnel at Porton Down in the 1950s done at the behest of MI6 who were much vexed by questions of mind control, truth […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] ‘hand slapping greeting’. Their assessment of the drugs threat was also highly flawed as they were seemingly convinced that, as it was called Acid House, usage of LSD was involved: ‘Acid acts for up to 12 hours. . . . “Flashback” experiences can occur up to six months after taking LSD. . . . […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] by the USAF itself.72 Old friends David Black is an old friend of this journal. The first edition of his book on the history and politics of LSD, Acid: the secret history of LSD, was reviewed in Lobster 35. He has a new, much revised edition out, published as an e-book.73 A sense of […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] and financially independent. After divorcing Meyer in 1958 she became a bit of a bohemian amongst the Wasps of Georgetown – a painter, a doper and an LSD user. She might have lived a long and interesting life had she not become one of JFK’s lovers and joined the list of those linked to […]