Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110118:20:41:00
Cleaver. she looks like this innocent '50s housewife tripping essentially. and was it, don, the norm? you mentioned a lot of government experiments. this is a va hospital. where were they doing this? >> well, there was all kinds of research being done in the '50s. a lot of it was very nefarious, funded by the cia, secretly, and the army. they were look being at using lsd as a chemical weapon, spraying it on enemy troops like a weapon of mass distraction rather than mass destruction. but there -- there was another kind of research going on by people looking for positive, beneficial uses of thes...