Aim High: The Long, Strange History Of Drugs In The Military | Answers With Joe
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In the 1960s, the US military tested a psychedelic called BZ on its own troops, to study how they could use it as a weapon. The results were shocking, but drugs have been used in the military for as long as humans have been fighting each other. Today we take a look at this taboo subject.
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TIMESTAMPS -
0:00 - Intro
1:33 - Different Types of Stimulants
4:48 - Psychedelics
5:48 - Project MK-Ultra
6:41 - Agent BZ
7:35 - U.S. Army Experimenting With BZ
8:26 - Most Notable BZ Tests
11:04 - Project DORK
12:31 - Effects of Experiments
13:31 - Psychedelics to Treat
14:55 - Sponsor - Brilliant - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Joe was so angry about getting demonetised he’ was literally beside himself
hahaaa this is good
read that in Morgan Freeman's voice as the narrator
That deserves a like. Good job!
My n !0
Fuck dude this is so goddamned satisfying.
Tyfys
A family friend who served in the army in WWII remembered Benzedrine. He always had a lot of sympathy for returning veterans of the Vietnam era who were rounded up for drug use, when, as he said it, it was fine while they were getting shot at, and the US was the dealer, but let them come home and buy from someone else...then you're busted.
Right said
The CIA was running a drug racket.
With bomber crews doing long, long flights like the US state of Georgia to the Middle East and back, the flight surgeon is monitoring their amphetimine intake to avoid addiction from becoming an issue. These pilots have $10Ms invested in their training and are operating equipment worth $B of dollars so it’s plausible.
@@Markle2k I've read accounts from the Vietnam war indicating that some of the most doped up soldiers were the ones operating stateside loading cargo planes.
I’m surprised no one in the comments has mentioned the movie Jacobs ladder yet. Joe is probably about to mention it in the video and I’m just being impatient lol but it’s a really good movie about how they used to give psychedelics and Crystal meth to people in the Vietnam War and this guy comes home from the war and he’s really messed up because of it and then continues to go on this esoteric search for these entities that he found while on drugs in the war.
Hawkeye: War isn’t Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.
Father Mulcahy: How do you figure that, Hawkeye?
Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?
Father Mulcahy: Um, sinners, I believe.
Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell, but war is chock full of them - little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for a few of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.
M.A.S.H. could get very dark, but also brutally honest.
Yeah, Alan Alda sometimes annoys the piss out of me, but he and the scriptwriters nailed that one perfectly.
Where is that from?
I'm interested now🤔
@@duartevilelas9688 MASH, 60’s show about life in a “Mobile Army Surgical Hospital” set in the Korean War. The finale was the highest rated show ever watched until the 2012 SuperBowl.
Honestly, M.A.S.H aged pretty well for a show of that time. I was born in 2004 but my parents always watched old TV shows, and M.A.S.H was one of them.
So, yeah, as many have pointed out, this video has somehow (so far) not been demonetized. Go figure.
UPDATE:
Nope, there it is! 😂😂😂
I'm surprised you didn't talk about ketamine which was used as an anesthetic during the Vietnam war. Its main advantage over other anesthetics was that it could do its job without slowing down respiration, so soldiers could be anesthetized in the field without any special equipment.
Thanks for another great video Joe.
As someone from south Africa, the "gg" in "Dagga" is pronounced like you are trying to clear your throat like a growl. The way you pronounced it is what we would call cement.
Got an ad right after you thanked the sponsors.
@@christiangomez7301 youtube: "sorry to inform you that this comment has been demonitized. have a nice day." :D
well, fun fact: ketamine is still (and probably will remain) on the WHO list of essential mediactions for being a solely dissociative hypnoticum/anestheticum as it (as you mentioned) does not require artificial respiration to take place if put under... beyond being of course somewhat popular to be used for recreational purposes.
I don't normally comment on videos but as this just went up I just wanted to say that I love your work and appreciate you Joe. It is a pleasure to hear your thoughts ☺️ never stop
Thank God for his sponsors 😂💜
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I also love this video, but I don't want to comment because comments are chilling at "666" and I think it is hilarious given the intro.
Ligma
I don't usually comment on comments but as i just saw this I wanted to say I love your work and appreciate you braco. Its a pleasure to read your thoughts 🙃 stay saucy
I really appreciate Joe. I really liked this show. I am a retired pharmacist. I like how Joe explains things for the general public. I often think he must be a very compassionate person. Thanks Joe. I love what you do. And Happy Independence day!
That’s very kind, thank you. 🙂
Bro as a Veteran I want to say that I Love you for this video, hell you could have gotten a lot further into the Military's use of drugs on us servicemembers even in the 90s. I would really enjoy a second video on this topic with a further deep dive
I agree!
Sadly thats going too far. Ignorance is Bliss is one of the big mottos of governments, sadly its just 2nd only to dont waste opportunities Before-During and yes After a crisis "the 2 mottos amplify each other.". Dont really want Joe to get in too much of a problem now do we "for we i mean me".
@@m0n4rch911 what do you mean? I want to know what happened in the 90’s lol
I saw a TV show about Air Force bomber pilots. These New bombers that fly around the globe for their missions require the pilots to stay awake for several days on end. So the Air Force has a pill they take so they don’t get sleepy. No other side effect, just you never feel sleepy. There has been much pressure to release the drug for other uses, but they keep it to themselves as a top secret weapon, giving them an edge over other countries. And you know if it ever got into the private sector people would be killing themselves with the stuff, trying to stay awake for months on end.
Not militarily related but new research into micro doses of LSD are showing it a promising treatment for Parkinson’s disease. The horrors of MK Ultra was because they used such massive doses. They ruined people’s lives and sent many to the nut house for the rest of their days. Because they were using hundreds of times what would be considered a normal dose.
@@MnemonicHeadTrip Seems the D-IX "wonderweapon" of the Nazi's was ignored with somewhat of a noting though more of like origins of. Plus the alcohol with the D-IX. Go-go's and no-go's.
Content creators should display a "demonetized" badge on their videos whenever the nannies at Google overstep their responsibilities. A badge brings awareness to the audience making it clear just how many videos it happens to and also what types of videos are being targeted.
Cens****ip needs a light shining on before anything can be done about it.
Good idea
I like the way you think.
Absolutely! I'd also like to know how creators are compensated for full views, ads watched and for how long, ads, clicked, et cetera.
I can't currently afford Patreon, but I'd like to compensate folks like Joe as best I can.
TH-cam will demonetise videos but still show 15 advertisements throughout. They'll also do nothing about the pornbots making themselves at home in every single comment section.
Totally agree.
The "is love just a drug" really needed the Rick and Morty clip about it hitting hard then slowly fading lol
“Glad you asked. Love is a very beautiful, very intense feeling for a startlingly short period of time. Before long you realize love just gets in the way of the important things in life, like going to sleep, or being left alone. That’s when love starts fading, and lies kick in.”
i am an Iraq veteran and i think alot of the PTSD from Iraq and Afghanistan is because we were very fucking sober every day i had one beer on the superbowl in iraq that was it, the rest was coffee, cigs, and energy drinks. my platoon srgt killed himself a two years after we got back. master srgt shawn coolidge. he had 4 tours since the golf war. i know the last one was is soberest one
@LordMightyTrousers I’m sorry to hear that and yes I think you’re exactly right. Of course abusing drugs continuously as a way to cope isn’t good. But honestly, there’s nothing wrong with smoking some weed to chill out every once and a while. Sometimes you just want it for your own mental health
Why is that? I had always assumed alcohol was pretty common amongst soldiers, even these days.
An invasion is NOT a "tour". That was your first clue!
@@lolazal1 that’s not what he was talking about
Bro I'm an Iraqi war veteran too. I'll never kill myself. Those guys DIED trying to kill me. So if I off myself. That means THEY WON it just took 20 years.
Burns: Well, everybody knows, ‘war is Hell.’
Hunnicutt: Remember, you heard it here last.
Hawkeye: War isn’t Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.
Father Mulcahy: How do you figure that, Hawkeye?
Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?
Father Mulcahy: Um, sinners, I believe.
Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell, but war is chock full of them - little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for a few of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.
Thanks for choosing to do videos that might get demonitized. Most youtubers wont,, but your stuff is very educational
You know its gonna be good when Joe talks to himself for the intro :D
As a recovering heroin addict I can attest to the benefits of 🍄 on my own well being….i rewired my brain by using for 15 years and the first 2 I was drug free were agony for me mentally…. After discovering 🍄 my quality of life and mental health have been better than ever… I am able to be a father and a husband without crippling depression and anxiety
You talking about mushrooms? Well so long as it doesn’t have the same problems as acid or dmt then I got no problems.
@@zzodysseuszz acid is a beautiful tool equal to mushrooms , especially micro doses
I heard of a doctor in South America doing a research study using micro doses of LSD and Shrooms to help addicts of heavy chemicals get off the habit smoother, or manage the edge in the first year. Thus far results look good. I think you're proof that the concept works.
Congrats on kicking the poison. #FuckHeroin
@@zzodysseuszz Each of those chemicals can affect individuals in different ways. They can be great for many people. Not for everyone. But for sure, they all need more research. For me, I have found great results with some hallucinogenics, and also some dissociative drugs. Post trauma therapeutics. The biggest issue right now, is that they have been outlawed for so long that we are way behind in studying them. But I am grateful that at least now, there has been a start to giving permission to study them.
Great video. I actually had an experience with psychedelics that helped me realize I wanted to become a psychiatrist to work on psychotherapy clinical trials like what you discussed. The neuroplastic effects of psychedelics can have applications in many therapies, not just limited to PTSD. Can't wait to be a part of this movement.
It’s going to be amazing when one day that becomes a real option for people suffering from PTSD. When it’s efficacy in therapeutic settings becomes widely accepted, I think a lot of the stigmas and previous notions people have about psychedelics will go away as well.
Exciting stuff, I hold the same views and I’m happy you found your path in life. I was microdosing psilocybin at one point, but my source stopped growing them.
I dont really like recreational drug use but it's mostly bc I think being able to better understand the drugs is so important. Studying stuff so we can actually help people who need it is so hard to do when drugs have bad reps. Idk my thoughts entirely but I feel pretty strongly about research before recreational.
As a disabled veteran I approve of this video. There you go Joe
thanks for your service
It always make my day better when you upload. Your channel rocks, love your work Joe :)
I'm a veteran of the USAF (1980-1984), and I applaud this video. In my experience, the things you've said are correct. While stationed in Germany (West Germany at the time), some of my buddies and I would make weekend road trips to Amsterdam to smoke hash & weed about twice a year. I once got a surprise urine test on a Wednesday after one of these trips, but it still came back clean & nothing was said. I knew one guy in Germany who took LSD regularly but eschewed weed & hash. He said the acid was a much better high, and it could only be detected via spinal tap. At least that's what he said.
Plus, the military tacitly promotes the use of alcohol by urging the troops to patronize the on-base enlisted & NCO clubs. While I was in, they also had no restrictions on us possessing all types of booze in our rooms.
So though they're officially anti-drug, they're actually anti some drugs (narcotics, weed, hallucinogens, nicotine, etc.) while pro alcohol, which is itself a drug.
Thanks for your service sir. I've always wanted to join the military, but I already have C-PTSD. Would they still expect me if I have mental and a physical disability? Or would they say no? Just curious.
@@_keelo_the_bearded_dragon_5719 To the best of my knowledge, they probably wouldn't take you if you had a documented history of either of those. However, if they're undocumented, the recruiter didn't ask you about them, and you were able to hide them, you might be able to get in. There is always the chance of being found out about either later. Personally, I'd not risk it since anything like that would be prosecutable under federal laws/UCMJ (Military Law). Those penalties can be very extreme depending who's prosecuting.
@@bobbyjackson4452 Thanks for telling me, cause C-PTSD is in my documents as well as all my trauma and suicidal history. So yeah, I agree with that. If the time were to come, could they draft someone like me?
I can't find a source anywhere for any good psychedelics in my area, I suffer some pretty bad depression and i got a chance to try K and man it was a miracle substance, I felt free, the only high or euphoria was from the relief of my vices being released, that's exactly what it did
3:25, just tosses out the name "Székesfehérvár" like it's nothing and carries on... you da man, Joe
your intros have gotten so good. great job with all your videos! this channel is awesome
I do really like when the development team gets back together, nice to see how friendly they are to each other.
Love your show man! I just retired from the service last year and this topic has always been something I’ve wanted to shed light on! I was shocked when I first deployed and found out there are more drugs in the military than in my home town! Glad you are bringing it up and hopefully more people will speak up about it as it has caused so much harm to service members! Love ❤️ peace ☮️ and taco 🌮 grease🤌🏾
After reading Donald Burgett’s excellent book “Currahee”, I was curious about the contents of the “airsickness pills” American paratroopers were given before and during the flight to Normandy. Burgett said they made them feel sleepy and dreamy and calm. Turns out that besides actual airsickness meds, they were mostly the barbiturate amobarbital, so they were basically low-level “red freaks”
when they dropped into France.
This is one of your best yet! So interesting and what an incredible subject matter. Keep up the great work!
agree!!!
My father was sent to Vietnam in '69. He was being really weird and spacy in '76. He went to a doctor who said from his brain scans he was having an LSD flashback. He was 38 when he was in Vietnam and mature enough to not "drop acid" on the battlefield. We always wondered if he was part of a USMC experiment.
MKultra
They can’t diagnose an “LSD flashback” from a 70s brain scan. Any doctor who would make that diagnosis in someone who had never taken acid is a quack.
Don’t mean to discredit your entire story, but “flashbacks” like that don’t really exist, and it’s not something that would be diagnosed on a brain scan
The acid might have triggered a latent psychological condition
@@Slowp0w in which case they'd (hopefully) diagnose the condition and proceed accordingly. This flashback myth is just that. I can see how it sounds believable to the inexperienced or those who have little education on the subject, but it's just an old myth, perpetuated by misguided drug war propaganda and schoolyard chatter.
3:24 Native Hungarian here... Kudos for trying to pronounce Székesfehérvár correctly. That was pretty close to perfect. Well done. :)
My father was a Warsaw Pact paratrooper/special ops recon operator in early 80s. Benzedrine was administered before training and combat missions. It was not enough to make the team euphoric, but enabled them to operate for a few days without sleep and they were able to maintain constant focus on their goals.
As someone who has struggled with depression, PTSD, debilitating anxiety and agoraphobia and also who hasn't had a lot of success with current pharmaceutical options...yeah, I reeeally can't wait for these studies to bring new medicine into the mainstream. It's very much needed.
As a South African, I died hearing you butcher "dagga" and "intelezi."
🤣🤣😭😭😭🇿🇦
Love you Joe
I’d love to see the edit of Joe saying “Szekesfehervar” and getting it right. I wonder how many tries that took.
I love how original and clever the segments in your videos are. I wish you would do more of them, and longer.
Fun fact: I've alternated my narcolepsy meds for almost 2 decades now (to reduce tolerance issues), one of them being Provigil (modifinil), which was heavily used in WWII by the Axis to keep troops awake and "functional."
I'm pretty sure you meant regular old amphetamine. Modafinil wasn't developed until the 1970s, and wasn't prescribed until the mid-90s. Amphetamines OTOH date back to the late 19th century.
you know when a video answers a much needed question I've had for SO LONG!
That intro 😂😂😂. I just love you and your show; the topics, the humor, the delivery, all of it. Thank you for always delivering interesting, educational content in the most entertaining of ways!
Thanks for being you Joe. Never stop.
One of my favourite channels; this is yet another rabbit hole you've sent me down, and I am thankful for that. Keep it up, Joe!
Holy heck dude.....you never cease to amaze me and find something that i haven't heard of before. Never knew about all of these "agent BZ" tests. WOW!! Keep it up! THANK YOU!
I'd really love to see a dedicated video on the experimental PTSD treatments currently being worked on. Apparently, micro-dosing psychedelics during therapy is extremely promising. - And/or a video which lays out the history of the VA screwing over us vets. Which continues to be a problem to this day. Albeit with improvements since I got out.
Great idea. I’d like to see that one too. I have ptsd and after being prescribed every pill known that made things worse. Then I got ketamine therapy. It saved my life.
Thank you both for your service, as we are seeing with recent pLandemics, the "system" rewards drug companies and their brainwashed dealers (aka MD's) Pfiser can't charge the VA $7.50 per dose of magic-mushrooms, b/c ppl know they grow for free in cow-s__t. The Veteran's Admin "didn't" study cannabis, or the endo-cannabinoid system post Vietnam?
WHY THE F____ NOT??? (Ketamine may HAVE saved your life, but how many lives has cannabis saved?) As a former SOC-M "doc", maybe it's not the compound that helps, but rather our belief in that compound? Happy Independence Day and MUCH respect! TY!
I'll "third" that request!! I know I have PTSD, but the VA says I don't, just depression and anxiety issues. The review was done via video conference by a PA. Sad state of affairs the VA is in. 😔
Ketamine is definitely getting a lot of attention these days for this sort of thing. MDMA seems to float in and out of favor in experimental circles but never really seems to break out into regular use.
I'd recommend looking up Alexander and Ann Shulgin, as they were pretty much the foremost pioneers in the realm of psychedelic therapies going back as far as the late 70's. In fact, Alexander Shulgin is pretty much responsible for synthesizing the majority of the 2C* family of drugs like 2CB. Him and Ann wrote a pair of books going into great detail about the effects and potential applications for a wide variety of drugs in the phenethylamine and tryptamine classes, PiHKAL and TiHKAL. He also just happened to invent the world's first biodegradable pesticide, Zectran. Old dude put in work.
“Went down to see my VA man, he say son don’t you understand…”
Any video you post, I will watch. You’re an amazing person Joe! I hope you know you inspire people.
I always love your multiple characters segments Cap'n Scott!
Always a good day when Joe uploads
Why is it that whenever we go into Joe's clone world.... It feels like it could so easily be Rimmerworld
I have thoroughly enjoyed this episode. Thanks!
This video was AMAZING. So educational and entertaining. You’re great at what you do, thank you for this content! I have a fondness for psychedelics and I’m glad people can open their mind to using it. It does have healing properties as well as many more benefits 💖
Incredibly brilliant and ballsy, Joe. Your human relevance has just gone up an order of magnitude.
The drug war is being fought against humanity, not for it. Free people, don't jail them.
I knew a guy who worked on an amputee floor at a military hospital and they would routinely give solders "medical" LSD to help with phantom limb pain. The guy mentioned it was super weird watching these soldiers missing limbs tripping thinking they're limbs were still there. Apparently it actually helped them accept the loss.
Yeah lsd is a schedule 1 narcotic there is no medical lsd even in the military. More than likely they gave them ketamine which gets used very often and can make people hallucinate and trip.
Oh my god, I can _just_ kind of imagine that, and it's absolutely ridiculous. I could also imagine that helping them, tho, too.
I'm not a medically trained and just repeating what he told me. It's possible that's what he was talking about but I remember him saying that it wasn't legal to give out at civilian hospitals. He said there's a lot that the military hospitals can get away with since they don't have to follow the same rules as civilian hospitals.
@@cottagehunter Military in a nutshell, eh?
this is such an interesting intersection of things! thanks joe!
Thank you Joe, for shining a light on this ongoing issue!!!
I legit didn't realise that Joe is both of the Joe and not two different Joe's
Joe 🥳 with everything crazy happening in the world ( Ukraine, shooting in Oslo and Danmark, women rights in the USA) seeing your face and hearing your jokes makes my day.
Dude I wish nothing but good things. Have a great summer. ❤️❤️
Leaving a comment to show the algorithm my engagement. I appreciate that Joe didn't shy away from talking about critical topics in spite of the holiday. Keep up the good work!
That was a very subtle and smooth sponsor ad. Thanks. It's those small things that make you stand out. :)
Never knew the Zulu’s used dagga.
Thanks Joe~this was an important video subject. As always, your presentation was very informative..
After having used the military service members as living lab experiments, the government of this country owes military veterans sooooo much more than they have been given. I shudder to think of the experiments that are being or have been performed on them that we haven't found out about yet..
I have an uncle with Osteoporosis and other health conditions that found out his father was one of many Navy men who were tied to a boat near a Nuclear test to see what would happen. He only found this out when his wife (not him) received a letter from the military asking if he had certain conditions.
I watch every single upload and it's worth my time every time.
I was so happy when you announced the sponsor. Talking about getting sponsors then announcing it was really satisfying.
I never new my grandfather because of the military LSD testing on soldiers. He joined as a perfectly functional person, got put through some experiments (massive doses and obstacle courses,etc), came back messed up in the head and violent, got hospitalized and eventually lobotomized, then died. He never even got to meet me as a baby I don't think, if he did it was only once when I was newborn then he died shortly after. I'm not sure, but that's what I was told by my mom and grandma.
Ah Joe. You're a good dude 👍
By far one of your best videos for sure
Great stuff! This is one of my new favorite guy-sits-and-talks-about-stuff channel!
lol first
great video by the way, love the work
12 hours ago..how
@@psychopoison maybe time zone coupled with patreon?
Nope
@@scrappydoo7887 patreon
I recommend "The Immortality Key" by Brian Muraresku for anyone more interested in how drugs may have been used in history. It was a huge perspective shift for how I viewed our ancient ancestors and how our moral judgment on psychopharmaceuticals is a very recent Western trend. It made me think "witches" may have been the earliest psychiatrists.
Thanks! Chasing the scream by Johan (can't remember his last name) great book on the war on drugs
Thank you for the content! Always a bright point when I get a notification for a new video 👍👍🤟
the sponsor bit at the beginning made my day... good little chuckle there, well done Joe.
Quite interesting fact: Heroin was invented by Bayer, the pharmaceutical company and marketed as a non-addictive painkiller.
Oh wow I thought oxy was the first that was done with thanks for the info
lol i wonder if they tried it themselves😂😂😂
Merck still makes cocaine hydrochloride. It was a favorite of Keith Richards in his cocaine using days.
Hi Joe. I got a question completely unrelated to the video but wasn't sure where to post it, so here goes. If i was to go back in time, abduct a newborn baby, bring it back to today and raise it like a normal child, how far back could I go so that the baby would grow up to be 100% undistinguishable, both physically and mentally, from today's humans? Not sure if you've already done a video on this in the past. Thanks and keep up the amazing work.
Quality is rising again! Very nice!
fascinating, thx for making the show
Thank you for sharing this. I knew about a few of the drug tests by the military, but wow, so many more that I had not heard of. Again, thank you.
Isn’t it ironic that LSD was first a Curiosity, then studied as a weapon, then recreational, now a possible cure for what war and modern life caused. Maybe the hippies were right all along.
Personal note, I’ve been micro dosing shrooms to help deal with cancer. My outlook on life is much improved.
Keep it up Joe, love your posts.
Thanks for bringing to everyone's attention the flippant attitude towards testing on soldiers. I was in the gulf war. One night our platoon leader walked around handing out pills from a bottle. He was ordered to hand them out, we were ordered to take them. He didn't even know what it was. I was raised to trust our leaders (I know, naive), but for some reason alarm bells went off in my head. When the platoon leader looked away, I chucked mine over my shoulder. That night, half the company was violently ill. To this day, I wonder how much of Gulf war syndrome was caused by that pill. Ross Perot funded a study that (supposedly) found evidence that it was caused by those pills, but that study was forgotten. People should be going to prison for that crap.
in 2021 the death rate of the usa not related to covid has gone up 40%. the life insurance companies have all had to pay out way more for death claims of people 18 -65 . so the inference is that the covid vaccine was heavily distributed and has caused way more deaths from "other causes" . i have had 3 shots and i got covid 3 weeks after the second. 1 week into covid i had muscle spasms in my abdomen. and now since then i have had all my muscles breaking down and no test can explain it.i heard some people who only got the vaccine have had terrible muscle spasms. so is it long covid or the vaccine?
I’m glad I subscribed to your site. I enjoy the way you tell your news and stories. Keep up the great work!!! Oh … keep telling your dad jokes.
This is a fantastic video! I learned so much.
While the intro was brilliant, I think it's great that you're bringing into focus how the government who banks votes and what not in the name of the millitary care so little about their well being.
From my time in the military all i can say is this.(it's can be a good sometimes) (BUT) If given the chance get out early they most would. Its full of people who cheat on there husbands and wifes. Most have alcohol problems, just being apart of the military culture can cause high levels of depression and stress. They push that just keep going even if your breaking mentally and physically mentality and when they do break they are called weak. Then they love talk about how they want to help suicidal soilders but then when they come out about it they get shunned or looked like they are crazy. They also love to try to help people find the Christian god. Its toxic and I dont recommend joining ever.
Great video, thoughtful and well researched
Great episode! So many funny moments and a fascinating subject 🙌🏻
I’ve enjoyed your videos for many years, this one is no different - keep up the good work!
Great video Joe, like most of your stuff but & this one was particularly well researched and put together!
Thank you Joe for this video. Happy 4th of July everyone!
Another introspective and informative piece. Well done!
New listener and love your videos keep it up!
Brilliant video Joe!
I’m absolutely dying at a midroll ad popping up directly after you said “thankfully we have a sponsor” after saying the video would be demonetized ☠️
This was an awesome video I just felt like it was a little too short. But I really enjoyed it thank you!
Love your work Joe, been watching for years, Australia salutes you 🍻
Dude, I so wish you put all of your stuff out as audio only podcasts. I really love the Conversations With Joe podcast.
I think this was a great video and was a good topic to cover. Keep them up!
Thank you for making this video
You’re my favourite channel by far man 🤙🏽
thanks for the vid joe .
Incredible editing and writing on this one!
Beautifully factual, up to date, and open-minded analysis of all these substances, but especially psychedelics deserve both scientific and ethnographical attention. You're super, Joe!
This was really interesting, I enjoyed it a lot!
Amazing video, as usual. 💯💕
Thanks for the vid, and also thanks for your sponsors
Gives a whole new meaning to "war on drugs"...
This makes me so so happy. Im at the intro an love it already
This was very interesting!
Joe’s comedic skills are the best!
Thank you Joe