Drugs, International Security and U.S. Public Policy Hallucinogens and the CIA MKULTRA Scandal

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Moderator:
Mr. Mark Rozanski
Drugs and National Security Colloquium

Panelists:

The Virtues and Abuses of Psychedelics
Dr. Lester Grinspoon
An Associate Professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Mental Health, he is the author of Psychedelics Reconsidered, Marijuana Reconsidered and the co-author of both Cocaine: A Drug and its Social Evolution and Drug Control in a Free Society.

The Abuse of Hallucinogens - MKULTRA and Beyond
Mr. Martin Lee
An investigative journalist, he is the research director of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting) and the editor of Extra!, its publication. He is the author of Acid Dreams, detailing the psychedelic revolution of the Sixties spawned by the spread of LSD, and Rolling Stone, The Nation and other magazines have run his articles. Lee has also won four Hopwood Awards.

The Manchurian Candidate will be screened in its entirety.