Talk:United States v. Stanley

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The holding listed is not what the Court actually ruled. They decided the case based on rather technical legal grounds (specifically the interplay between the Chappell and Bivens doctrines). The Court expressly declined to re-examine the much more interesting issue (decided by the lower court) that the LSD was part of normal military service. The dissenting opinions wanted to re-examine it, but they were in the minority. So properly speaking, the issue of whether the army can secretly give soldiers LSD has never been decided by the Supreme Court. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lawguy9 (talk • contribs) 19:45, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

OK, I changed it to reflect what the Court ruled. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lawguy9 (talk • contribs) 19:54, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Memoirs
From the memoirs of James Ketchum, p. 118:

So it seems plausible that Stanley was one of those given LSD covertly in 1958. 86.121.18.17 (talk) 08:24, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

And from the recent article in The New Yorker :

Test protocols and the subject experiences entailing from those varied a fair bit. From the oral interview with Hunt, Stanley was given LSD orally two or three times during month-long participation (last one may have been BZ, based on him not recalling anything for a day) and he was also injected with a substance which he was told was "liquid nicotine" as he remembers it. Besides that audio interview, no account of Stanley's story outside of the courtroom proceedings seems to exist. I'll write a summary of that interview later. 86.121.18.17 (talk) 22:18, 19 June 2013 (UTC)