# Nuclear sailors fly higher **URL:** \ **Category:** Navy\ **Created:** [March 1, 2020, 9:08am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nuclear-sailors-fly-higher/54423 "2020-03-01T09:08:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lee\_Shore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Lee\_Shore](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Lee_Shore)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2020, 9:08am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nuclear-sailors-fly-higher/54423/1 "2020-03-01T09:08:07Z")
Discriminating sailors aboard nuclear powered aircraft carriers opt for sophisticated drugs over plain ol’ weed. > **[Fact: LSD And Aircraft Carriers Don't Mix (The Navy Found Out the Hard Way)](https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/fact-lsd-and-aircraft-carriers-dont-mix-navy-found-out-hard-way-128227)** > > A sailor assigned to the nuclear reactor department aboard the USS Ronald Reagan admitted to bringing LSD aboard the aircraft carrier. ---
**Author:** ![DamnYankee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/damnyankee/32/514_2.png) [@DamnYankee](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/DamnYankee)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2020, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nuclear-sailors-fly-higher/54423/2 "2020-03-01T18:35:51Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/gcaptain_maritime_forum/original/2X/c/c7a7a2961b0a66cb1a26822a4de757f41fa0ebd7.jpeg) But have you ever operated a nuclear reactor… on LSD!! ---
**Author:** ![SeaEagle](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/seaeagle/32/17788_2.png) [@SeaEagle](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/SeaEagle)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2020, 7:07pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nuclear-sailors-fly-higher/54423/3 "2020-03-01T19:07:32Z")
Now that’s scary. Thought LSD went out with the 70’s. Can’t imagine even being in a rowboat with that stuff. ---
**Author:** ![yacht\_sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ed655f/32.png) [@yacht\_sailor](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/yacht_sailor)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2020, 10:52pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nuclear-sailors-fly-higher/54423/4 "2020-03-01T22:52:29Z")
I met merchant mariners that told me LSD was their go-to drug because it doesn’t show up on a piss test. ---
**Author:** ![DeckApe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/deckape/32/1271_2.png) [@DeckApe](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/DeckApe)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 12:09am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nuclear-sailors-fly-higher/54423/5 "2020-03-02T00:09:30Z")
LSD?! What happened to just huffing coil cleaner… ---
**Author:** ![dbeierl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/dbeierl/32/11833_2.png) [@dbeierl](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/dbeierl)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 12:18am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nuclear-sailors-fly-higher/54423/6 "2020-03-02T00:18:49Z")
Those are kind of the backwards of each other. One’s an anesthetic and the other lowers your sensory filters and keeps you wide awake. ---
**Author:** ![dbeierl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/dbeierl/32/11833_2.png) [@dbeierl](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/dbeierl)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 12:26am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nuclear-sailors-fly-higher/54423/8 "2020-03-02T00:26:42Z")
Here’s what the Sandoz chemist who developed the stuff in the forties had to say about it in 1979. Interesting to note that I believe it’s beginning to be used in psychiatry again. > **[lsdmyproblemchild.pdf](https://maps.org/images/pdf/books/lsdmyproblemchild.pdf)** > > 412.42 KB I think it’s a fascinating read but of course YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![Lee\_Shore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Lee\_Shore](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Lee_Shore)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2020, 8:41pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nuclear-sailors-fly-higher/54423/9 "2020-03-02T20:41:35Z")
The CIA experimented with LSD in the fifties. They didn’t bother telling the volunteers they were going to experience psychotic out of body experiences. Some committed suicide and many survivors were never the same again. I have a fairly benign attitude toward drugs as long as they’re kept out of the my work place but guys high on acid running nuclear plants adds a complexity to life I had not previously considered. > **[The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A 'Poisoner In Chief'](https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-quest-for-mind-control-torture-lsd-and-a-poisoner-in-chief)** > > Journalist Stephen Kinzer reveals how CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb worked in the 1950s and early '60s to develop mind control drugs and deadly toxins that could be used against enemies. ---
**Author:** ![jimrr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/jimrr/32/38358_2.png) [@jimrr](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/jimrr)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 5:38pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/nuclear-sailors-fly-higher/54423/10 "2020-03-30T17:38:48Z")
the must be doing low grade stuff, I can NOT imagine being anyplace on board, on or off duty and going about without someone hauling you into sick bay or some place.