Mefloquine - was given to a lot of service members in the 70s and 80s for malaria. It was supposed to be so straightforward that it skipped the final FDA trials. Turns out that it 1) didn't really help with Malaria and 2) gave a lot of people lifelong psychiatric problems.
Nice free psychedelic experiences for life
There was a house in the town I grew up in that housed people with mental issues. The buzz was that most of them were vets from Vietnam that had taken too much LSD and now had permanent brain damage. I now wonder if it was linked to this instead.
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