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  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    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.
  • edited August 2019
    stetson wrote: »
    ^ 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

    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".
  • mousethief wrote: »
    Ruth wrote: »
    Because there are truckloads of info right at your fingertips, so no one needs to explain to you what you can find out for yourself.

    Does this apply to the ship's rule about foreign words as well?

    Until Google Translate can pick up nuance and translate for grammar and meaning rather than just vocabulary, anyway.
  • Hugal wrote: »
    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.

    Well said.

    You would think this was fucking difficult.
  • I can't wait to tell my Mum about Weyburn.
  • mousethief wrote: »
    Ruth wrote: »
    Because there are truckloads of info right at your fingertips, so no one needs to explain to you what you can find out for yourself.

    Does this apply to the ship's rule about foreign words as well?

    Until Google Translate can pick up nuance and translate for grammar and meaning rather than just vocabulary, anyway.

    Thank you. Finally an explanation that actually explains.
  • RuthRuth Shipmate
    Yeah, you wait a long time when you post questions in Hell that belong in the Styx.
  • Ruth wrote: »
    Yeah, you wait a long time when you post questions in Hell that belong in the Styx.

    Who TF pissed in your Cheerios? Get off my leg.
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    stetson wrote: »
    ^ 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.

    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.
  • RuthRuth Shipmate
    mousethief wrote: »
    Ruth wrote: »
    Yeah, you wait a long time when you post questions in Hell that belong in the Styx.

    Who TF pissed in your Cheerios? Get off my leg.

    ::eyeroll::
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