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Synthetic Pot as a Military Weapon? Meet the Man Who Ran the Secret Program

By Martin A. Lee, AlterNet. Posted July 19, 2008.


Dr. James Ketchum tested a potent form of synthetic marijuana on soldiers to develop a secret weapon in the '60s. Now he's telling the tale.

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Martin A. Lee is the author of Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond. He is writing a social history of marijuana. A version of this article originally appeared in Cannabis Culture.

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