Posted on 02/10/2018 1:47:00 AM PST by US Navy Vet
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Navy is investigating at least a dozen U.S. sailors based in Japan, some serving aboard the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier, for suspicion of buying, selling, and using LSD, ecstasy and other drugs, U.S. Navy officials said Friday.
The Navy also is probing whether U.S. sailors were using the internet to buy or sell drugs or were distributing them to local Japanese residents.
The Navy first learned about allegations of widespread drug sales on Feb. 6, when it received a tip about a petty officer third class using drugs, the officials said. He was subsequently detained and released, they said.
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First guy I ever ran across with PTSD was a guy who saw combat in Europe in World War II. He was a functioning alcoholic who self medicated with liquor. Ended up a convicted felon for multiple drunk driving convictions.
It’s real, but what is different now is the financial incentive to get on the PTSD disability dole. Folks who haven’t been within a 1000 miles of combat are sucking the taxpayer dry and using it as a ‘get out of jail free card’.
It was mere ‘shell shock’ back then. Sad day for the military when crap like this is going on.
I tried it a half dozen or so times during my youth in the late 80s, early 90s. The old Deadheads from the 60s were still cooking it up. After 20+ years, they'd perfected their craft.
Absolutely some of the most mind-blowing, emotional, bonding, exhilarating experiences that I could never begin to describe. Never regretted it but I'd never touch the stuff again.
LSD culture died with Jerry Garcia. Grateful Dead shows were the primary network of pipelines for which LSD was distributed throughout the country. When the Dead came to town, so did the good acid and since they toured endlessly, distributers would get enough to last throughout the year, until the next tour.
When the Dead stopped touring in '95, the pipeline dried up and the Pickard/Apperson Bust of 2000 took the last of the old "real" LSD off the streets. By then, American kids had switched over to MDMA (ecstasy) as their psychedelic drug of choice.
Recent federal crackdowns on ergot alkaloids, an essential ingredient to produce real LSD, has stymied modern production efforts and that's the difference between the crap on the streets today that calls itself LSD and the real deal.
Been there done that. So perhaps know my history before you spout off.
I stand by the only cure. Jesus Christ is the cure.
It’s terrible your FIL was trapped. I truly hope he knew that he knew the Lord.
And the late 80’s. I was on a courts martial jury for a knucklehead who was dealing LSD on my ship.
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