There's a history of military research into the use of drugs to disorient the enemy (the footage above is from the 1950s - my favourite bit is the man climbing a tree to feed the birds...) and, as an article in Nature magazine shows, it continues, in more ever more sophisticated forms. The author argues that international law needs to be updated to address the new research:
If, instead, we sit on our hands we must accept that new incapacitating agents are just the beginning. We will be, as the British Medical Association concluded in its 2007 study, The Use of Drugs as Weapons, "knowingly moving towards the top of a 'slippery slope' at the bottom of which is the spectre of 'militarization' of biology" including "intentional manipulation of peoples' emotions, memories, immune responses or even fertility".
(Via Mind Hacks)
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