{"id":1413,"date":"2012-03-01T21:49:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T05:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2018-03-09T10:06:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T18:06:55","slug":"u-s-veterans-recall-secret-drug-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=1413","title":{"rendered":"U.S. veterans recall secret drug experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American soldiers were used by the U.S. military as guinea pigs in the testing of a variety of drugs like nerve gas, incapacitating agents like BZ, tear gas, barbiturates, tranquilizers, narcotics and hallucinogens like LSD.\u00a0 Tests were conducted up until the late 1960&#8217;s at what is now the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecbc.army.mil\/about\/history.htm\"> Edgewood Chemical Biological Center<\/a>.\u00a0 Veterans involved have begun a lawsuit seeking compensation for harm that is alleged to have been suffered as a result of the tests. 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