Posted on 12/10/2020 10:25:09 AM PST by nickcarraway
The Marine Corps is conducting random drug testing at one base in North Carolina because of reports that personnel there are using the hallucinogenic drug lysergic acid diethylamide, better known as LSD.
The 2nd Marine Division in Jacksonville, North Carolina, has conducted nearly 4,000 random tests for LSD since the start of the summer.
Maj. Gen. Francis L. Donovan, the division commander, said the recent rise in LSD use among sailors and Marines on the base has prompted them to change how they test for illegal substances.
In the past, the Department of Defense drug lab only accepted individual samples for LSD testing as part of a larger law enforcement investigation. Because of the spike in LSD use at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, random testing for LSD is now an option, officials said.
“We have a drug problem in the 2nd Marine Division,” Maj. Gen. Donovan said in a statement. “We are committed to identifying the violators of our ethos. The vast majority of Marines within the 2nd Marine Division routinely uphold our core values and they deserve to know that the Marines to their left and right are doing the same.”
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Unless you are a Scientologist, then you believe "micro crystals" of LSD can lodge in capillaries and break loose at random and unexpected times years and years later, causing flashbacks and making the person a risk to those around him.
Needless to say they have a way to get rid of these micro crystals, involving nutrition, sweating in a sauna and lots and lots of running, and massive donations to the church to supervise the program, of course...
It is.
I figured LSD was gone
Fiction
Well that’s good to hear then
I dunno, I thought it was pretty fun. Though I’m pretty sure the stuff I had was nowhere near as strong as the stuff in the 60’s.
....is the military still issuing dishonarble discharges...? I thought that they pretty much did away with those, issuing instead a general discharge or at worst, a BCD (Bad Conduct Discharge)...wern’t some DDs issued during the Southeast Asia War Games back in the 1960s and -70s downgraded to BCD’s later on....?? jus’ askin’ .......
I have idea. I’m just making a point.
Dude, don’t take the brown acid...
Taking LSD while making bike deliveries—omg... :-)
That is one of the problem with illegal drugs—they don’t have instruction manuals.
...you bet it is....!! even though they pick personnel at random, I cannot recall how many p**s tests I had to take during my career...my USAF Man Number (oppps, sorry...”Person Number...”?? came up and I had to take the test; I understand if you are “chosen” and you refuse, it could result in an Article 15...
Better living through chemistry.
Navy and Marine enlisted go to Portsmouth, NH, officers to Kansas.
If I was pulling staff NCO duties, each morning division or battalion would send 2 random numbers for testing; all soldiers who had those 2 numbers as the last 2 of their SSN were woken up or summoned in early and I'd watch them as they'd piss in a bottle, fun duty.
Thanks.
I don’t even have to look...I did love that sketch!
I'm actually surprised to read that people are still using LSD. I thought it was going gone.
LSD was significantly distributed into America by a network of dealers that followed the Grateful Dead. When the Dead came to town, so did LSD, where it was purchased from smaller dealers and sold throughout college towns.
LSD, real LSD, remained popular through the 80s and early 90s and then Jerry Garcia died and and that whole carnival ended. The distribution network largely dried up. Of course, most of the people that actually knew how to make LSD, real LSD, were boomers, and they're leaving us as well.
The stuff today? Where is it coming from? Who's cooking it up? Is it anything like the real deal that hippies, deadheads, and college students consumed for nearly 30 years?
That’s ate up.
Not anymore. I think they all go to Kansas, now.
They closed up Portsmouth, NH some years back, IIRC
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