St. Elizabeths Hospital (DC)

[Mark Thibodeau]

Yeah, here it is. I remembered correctly!

https://blogs.weta.org/boundarystones/2014/05/01/ezra-pounds-stay-st-elizabeths

YOPJ

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 8:40 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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