Ep 1: A Brief History of Hallucinogens, MK-Ultra, the CIA, LSD, Leary & the Psychedelic 60s/70s

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Abby & Robbie Martin

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🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 160 minutes

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Media Roots Radio on Psychedelics: Episode 1: A Brief History of Hallucinogens, MK-Ultra, the CIA, LSD, Leary & the Psychedelic Sixties / Seventies Robbie and Abby Martin start the series by exploring the Western world's initiation into psychedelics: the CIA buying up the world's supply of LSD to administer MK-Ultra's dark experimentation against unwitting subjects as well as thousands of volunteers through research organizations and front groups at elite universities which spawned Silicon Valley. They discuss the evolution of main characters like Timothy Leary and how the San Francisco Bay Area became a hotbed of psychedelic renaissance through the hippie movement, from the Grateful Dead to Ken Kesey. Figures like John Lilly were attempting to sync consciousness with dolphins using hallucinogenic drugs and performance art by the likes of Alex Grey and others became representative of the era. Nixon's 'War on Drugs' started the reactionary wave of psychedelic criminalization. This is Episode 1 of an ongoing series on Psychedelic History, Episodes 1-4 are availible now. Patreon subscribers at the $5 tier get access to Episode 4 of the series: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio Episode 2: How Raves Brought Back the Psychedelic Subculture, DanceSafe, Pill Tests & the DEA vs MDMA Episode 3: Terrence McKenna, Johnathan Ott, DMT, Pharmahuasca, Heroic Dosing, Utopianism & the Psychedelic New Age Episode 4: When Microsoft Employee #9 Boosted an Online Psychedelic Revolution, Erowid.org, DXM & Salvia [Patreon Subscriber Exclusive] FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey //

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0:00.0	This is Abby Martin.
0:03.8	This is a disclaimer to say that psychedelic drugs do not universally work the same for everybody.
0:09.2	They can cause psychosis at high enough doses, and they can be life-changing in ways that are not always intended or desired.
0:16.9	Psychedelics should be used responsibly and with extreme caution.
0:31.5	The squad all except the drill sergeant now drugged with LSD.
0:33.7	Again was ordered to fall in.
0:38.3	Notice the volunteer who salutes several times. Five minutes later, his severe depression caused the medical officers to end his participation
0:42.3	in the test.
0:44.3	But in marching, the drug squad, although starting fairly well, give a sluggish and ragged performance.
0:52.3	After a few minutes, the men found it difficult to obey orders.
0:56.0	And soon, the results were chaotic.
0:59.0	There was much laughter as the group attempted to give expression to inner emotions.
1:04.0	This elation was group supported, and an individual who was separated from the group would show severe disturbance.
1:10.0	The colleague, I don't know. individual who was separated from the group would show severe disturbance.
1:15.9	What day of the week?
1:16.8	Wait a minute, wait a minute.
1:17.5	Don't about me.
1:20.6	What the hell are you used to me anyway?
1:30.3	George, I'm going back so far, so many faces and the basic of the root-equin, what day is it? I can't remember a thing! I can't remember!
1:33.3	Come on, man, I don't want this stuff.
1:35.3	Yeah.
1:41.3	What's going on, I guess it? I guess you're going.
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