On 9/7/06, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So far, scopolamine / its more recent variants, and lie detector tests (which the locals keep calling "brain mapping") do seem to be admissible as evidence.
From Wikipedia, on Scopolamine:
The use of scopolamine as a truth drug was investigated by various intelligence agencies, including the CIA, during the 50s. see: Project MKULTRA. It was found that, due to the hallucinogenic side effects of the drug, the truth was prone to distortion, and the project was subsequently abandoned.[citation needed]. Nazi doctor Josef Mengele experimented on scopolamine as an interrogation drug. Scopolamine is used criminally as a date rape drug and as an aid to robbery, the most common act being the clandestine drugging of a victim's drink. It is preferred because it induces retrograde amnesia, or an inability to recall events prior to its administration. Victims of this crime are often admitted to a hospital in police custody, under the assumption that the patient is experiencing a psychotic episode. A telltale sign is a fever accompanied by a lack of sweat. On other "truth drugs": While fictional accounts of intelligence interrogation give these drugs near magical abilities, information obtained by publicly-disclosed truth drugs has been shown to be highly unreliable, with subjects apparently freely mixing fact and fantasy. Much of the claimed effect relies on the belief of the subject that they cannot tell a lie while under the influence of the drug. I'm curious - was this "narcotest" ordered by the government? Ram
