We have already discussed the times when all LSD in the world was made by one person and how the CIA tested LSD on its citizens. And here's a story about British soldiers.
British scientists dawned on the idea of increasing the fighting efficiency of Her Majesty's fighters with the help of psychedelics. One of the most striking experiments in every sense took place in 1963. In the morning, along with traditional oatmeal and tea, the soldiers received a portion of LSD. And where then?
Naturally, for exercises.
After all, it is completely uninteresting to observe the behavior of soldiers in laboratory conditions or at least in the barracks. Another thing is to distribute military weapons to the experimental and release them into the field.
Suddenly, the combat capability of the unit did not increase due to the "miracle supplement".
But very curious things began to happen.
Throwing in acid, the soldiers began their exercises. Within a quarter of an hour, the first results were visible. Of course, Tommy didn't get to the blue caterpillar shape from Alice in Wonderland so quickly, but silly chuckles began to be heard here and there.
After 35 minutes, one of the signalmen realized that he had forgotten how to use the radio. But he "realized" that he can transmit information mentally at a distance of at least 200 meters. And this is long before the X-Men!
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At the same time, the accuracy of firing from the grenade launcher dropped. Grenade Launcher! Of course, the British are brave people, but here the experiment clearly fell into the category of "Dementia and courage."
After another 10 minutes, the unit was successfully lost in a small forest, completely forgetting that according to the scenario of the exercises, they need not only not to get lost, but also to knock out the conditional enemy from this very forest. No, they did not find any opponents. Is that in their heads. Or maybe someone remembered the classic Welsh work "The Battle of the Trees", because some of the participants in the experiment began to chop down green spaces with rifles.
It is worth giving the fighters their due: overcoming the effects of LSD, they tried to act in concert. They even made desperate attempts with a map and a compass to find the headquarters. Which was within line of sight from the grove, in an open field. Scientists still had a chance to write that they are testing how the army is able to resist enemy psychedelic influences, for example, but they did not.
An hour and 10 minutes later, according to British tradition, a naturalist and naturalist was found among the soldiers, who decided to urgently feed the birds and climbed a tree. After observing the attempts to build an impromptu birdhouse, the command decided to stop the field exercises, because control over the unit was completely lost.
So attempts to create drug berserkers were unsuccessful. And footage of the chronicle of a failed experiment today can be useful as an excellent propaganda against drugs.