I’ll be giving a talk at the Boom Festival on Sunday the 20th at 1pm in the Liminal Village about a very fun and very disturbing topic: The history of military experiments with psychedelics.
Most of us think of psychedelics as “peace and love” drugs which governments feared because they threatened social norms. But the truth is far more complicated – and far more disturbing: From CIA programs that greenlighted spiking civilians with LSD, to Nazi experiments in concentration camps with mescaline, psychedelics have played a much larger role in some of warfare’s most violent chapters than psychonauts might ever wish to believe.