US Army Secretly Drugged 7,000 Soldiers for 20 Years

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]Did you know the US Army secretly drugged thousands of its own soldiers for 20 years? From 1955 to 1975, servicemen at Edgewood Arsenal thought they were testing gas masks and protective gear. They weren't. They were human lab rats in illegal chemical weapons experiments. Soldiers were given massive doses of LSD without knowing it.

[00:00:22]They hallucinated for weeks. Some never recovered. Others received BZ, a chemical weapon that caused violent psychotic episodes lasting days. Private James Stanley was told he was testing clothing. Instead, he was dosed with LSD and locked in a room while scientists watched him lose his mind. When veterans tried to get medical help years later, their records were classified. The military denied everything. Soldiers suffered permanent brain damage, chronic seizures, and severe psychiatric disorders. Many couldn't hold jobs or maintain relationships. The government kept recruiting new test subjects while covering up the damage. It took a congressional investigation in the 1970s to finally expose the truth. 7,000 soldiers had been used as guinea pigs in America's own chemical weapons program.