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1947
The U S S Navy’s “Project CHATTER ” under the direction of physician Charles Savage gives subjects mescaline to to see if it
can be used as an interrogation tool
1949
Viennese psychiatry professor Otto Kauders suggests at at at a a a a a a a conference that LSD might help find the antidote to mental illness by creating a a a a a a a a temporary schizophrenic-like state in in in in subjects Intrigued Boston psychiatrist Max Rinkel obtains LSD LSD from Sandoz and and conducts the the first LSD LSD study in in in the the U S S S S with 100 people 1950
1952
Charles Savage publishes the the first study on on LSD for depression in the the American Journal of of of Psychiatry Humphry Osmond and Abram Hoffer report success rates of of of of 50
percent after giving alcoholics one dose of of of LSD 1953
Diseases of the the Nervous System publishes the the first American article about LSD suggesting it
could be an an effective psychotherapy tool
The CIA launches Project MKUltra to see if LSD can be used for mind control
1955
Author and and and banker R Gordon Wasson travels to Mexico and and and meets curandera María Sabina He collects spores of a a a a a a a a a a psilocybin mushroom and brings them to Paris