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When the military tested cannabis and LSD on soldiers, it made them lose discipline indefinitely. They probably thought of it more as "turning them into hippies" than "waking them up to the bullshit", but either way they didn't like it.

Prohibition makes a lot of sense from the point of view of an army that might need to draft a lot of men and make good soldiers out of them quickly.

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Funny, a Liberal Arts education can have a similar effect on people. Bell Telephone ran a program where managers were given a humanities education, and by the end of it most of them wanted to work less and spend more time with their families:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/opinion/16davis.html

Maybe I should post this to "new", it's a pretty interesting article; slightly off topic here.

Is a hippie a kind of Animal? How can you go full hippie? They're f'ing soldiers! They were becoming apathetic and moralised when they had brief moments of realisation that they were all brainwashed by their drill sergeants.

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