Blue Season –answers from anastronaut

By Wendell W Solomons

Misgivings and suspicion? Historyindeed saw

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times of demonstrations like those againstthe Vietnam war. How would youmove demos off the streets of New York, London and Paris?

TheAnarchist Block had not yet been invented for disrupting demos…

Young people hung out and thendropped out of street protests. Theworld hasn’t seen such demos since.Curious?Lysergic acid, a hallucinogenic, hadbeen extracted in Sandoz Labs inSwitzerland in 1938 throughexperimenting with a fungus affectingrye. Sandoz went into the productionof LSD in Switzerland in 1947 soonafter World War 2.When large-batch production began,far away in the USA an intelligenceservice received high-level directionsto begin research into the effects of LSD

on people. The program, code-named MKULTRA, was

disclosed two decades later in areport to Congress.Yet, the effects were long known toexperimenters. A quantity as small asthe weight of 1/10 of a grain of SANDinduced hallucination.The US Food and DrugAdministration (FDA) put LSD on a listof restricted drugs. At the same timeinfluential think-tank men such asAldous Huxley were advocating theuse of LSD and these voicesprevailed.Here’s contrast. Troopers of this FDAhad been famously signed in byPresident Bill Clinton’s AttorneyGeneral and classmate Janet Reno.