The secret history of psychedelic psychiatry

[Robin Landseadel]

Also from today's Boing-Boing, or

"What did they put into the Gottlieb machines?":

	ON August 15th, 1951, an outbreak of hallucinations, panic
	attacks and psychotic episodes swept through the town of
	Saint-Pont-Esprit in southern France, hospitalizing dozens of its
	inhabitants and leaving five people dead. Doctors concluded
	that the incident occurred because bread in one of the town's
	bakeries had been contaminated with ergot, a toxic fungus that
	grows on rye. But according to investigative journalist Hank
	Albarelli, the CIA had actually dosed the bread with d-lysergic
	acid diethylamide-25 (LSD), an extremely potent hallucinogenic
	drug derived from ergot, as part of a mind control research
	project.

http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2010/08/psychedelic_psychiatry.php