Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: kp74615@lapasorsa.tut.fi (Karri Tapani Palovuori) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: BZ (psychemicals) Message-ID: <1991Jan18.001443.5440@cbnews.att.com> Date: 18 Jan 91 00:14:43 GMT References: <1991Jan17.053412.28932@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: Tampere University of Technology Lines: 32 Approved: military@att.att.com From: kp74615@lapasorsa.tut.fi (Karri Tapani Palovuori) In article <1991Jan17.053412.28932@cbnews.att.com> Otto.Makela@jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes: > > >From: Otto.Makela@jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) >In a Finnish newspaper article there was discussion of psychemical weapons, >ie. hallucinogenics and similars. I remember reading a Readers Digestive :-) >article from the 60s on this stuff, which was rather sketchy and had some >pretty wild claims. I'd like to know a bit more about these chemicals >(in the newspaper article this class was called BZ - where do these names >come from ?) BZ is not a group but a single chemical - quinuclidinyl benzilate (sp?). Some other bezilates and glycolates are also potential psychoagents. Effects are mainly 'strange feelings' (not necessarily hallusinations) which _could_ disable one from fighting effectively. Depending on occasion (~dosage) the effects may last up to 100 days!!! >-- > /* * * Otto J. Makela * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ > /* Phone: +358 41 613 847, BBS: +358 41 211 562 (CCITT, Bell 24/12/300) */ > /* Mail: Kauppakatu 1 B 18, SF-40100 Jyvaskyla, Finland, EUROPE */ >/* * * Computers Rule 01001111 01001011 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ Karri