Here is some more information on the Weyburn LSD experiments. From reading I did elsewhere, it seems that the word "psychedelic" itself was coined in Weyburn, which is presumbaly why NPNP used the adjective by itself in listing the things Saskatchewan has produced.
^ By the way. what do you mean by "psychedelic" in the above post? Are you refering to the CIA-funded experiments on psychoactive drugs that were done in Weyburn?
Sask Health recruited Abram Hoffer and Humphrey Osmond from the UK in the early 1950s. They studied psychoactive chemicals including PCP, psilocybin, MDMA and LSD as analogues for schizophrenia. Nothing to do with the CIA, that was later in Toronto. One of my professors in the 1970s had worked with them. The Weyburn mental hospital was designed by psychiatrists and architects who had taken drugs. Since very unique features such as being able to look along outside walls and doors placement. Sadly demolished. There's a nice book about it all though not focused on Weyburn. https://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/psychedelic-psychiatry
Most of the research was done in Saskatoon at the psychiatric research unit at univ of Saskatchewan and at Saskatchewan Hospital in North Battleford 80 miles northwest. Not at Weyburn.
The word psychedelic was Humphrey Osmond's as "psychedelicacy".
Do our Canadian Ship mates want to keep this between themselves if so I guess it is OK to use local terms. If you want a wider audience then please explain.
^ By the way. what do you mean by "psychedelic" in the above post? Are you refering to the CIA-funded experiments on psychoactive drugs that were done in Weyburn?
Sask Health recruited Abram Hoffer and Humphrey Osmond from the UK in the early 1950s. They studied psychoactive chemicals including PCP, psilocybin, MDMA and LSD as analogues for schizophrenia. Nothing to do with the CIA, that was later in Toronto.
Thanks for the clarification about the lack of CIA involvement in Weyburn.
For the record, there was a prof at the University Of Alberta who had also worked on the psychiatric experiments at Weyburn. Something about giving psychedelics to spiders to see how it influenced their web-spinning. Granted, my information on this is all second-hand, at best.
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There's also a handbook for the therapeutic use of LSD by Don Blewett who worked for provincial psychiatric services. https://erowid.org/psychoactives/guides/handbook_lsd25.shtml
Most of the research was done in Saskatoon at the psychiatric research unit at univ of Saskatchewan and at Saskatchewan Hospital in North Battleford 80 miles northwest. Not at Weyburn.
The word psychedelic was Humphrey Osmond's as "psychedelicacy".
Until Google Translate can pick up nuance and translate for grammar and meaning rather than just vocabulary, anyway.
Well said.
You would think this was fucking difficult.
Thank you. Finally an explanation that actually explains.
Who TF pissed in your Cheerios? Get off my leg.
Actually, Montreal.
Thanks for the clarification about the lack of CIA involvement in Weyburn.
For the record, there was a prof at the University Of Alberta who had also worked on the psychiatric experiments at Weyburn. Something about giving psychedelics to spiders to see how it influenced their web-spinning. Granted, my information on this is all second-hand, at best.
::eyeroll::