St. Elizabeths Hospital (DC)

[Mark Thibodeau]

This is also where Ezra Pound was incarcerated after being repatriated from
Italy, where he'd been kept in open air cages for the better part of a
year.

Right?

YOPJ

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 11:50 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/st-elizabeths
>
> In 1942 the proto-CIA Office of Strategic Services established a committee
> partnership with St. Elizabeths to aid in prisoner of war interrogations.
> Little was known about the pharmacology of mind-altering drugs, but the
> premise was that intoxicated Nazis would be more likely to reveal sensitive
> information to interrogators to help win World War II.
>
> The St. Elizabeths truth serum experiments were overseen by longtime
> director and superintendent Dr. Winfred Overholser, who quickly dismissed
> mescaline and scopolamine and instead honed in on the promising effects of
> marijuana.
>
> According to the now declassified 1943 OSS “Report on T.D.
> <http://antiquecannabisbook.com/chap03/WWII/TruthSerum-P1.htm>[Truth
> Drugs], “Three varieties of cannabis were studied: Cannabinol from Indian
> Charis, tetrahydrocannabinol acetate derived from the above, and synthetic
> cannabinol [sic]. Of these, the acetate derivative was found to be
> preferable.“
>
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