I've heard this idea before from Sci-Fi author - Gibson, Dick or maybe Stephenson. I've never used an hallucinogen before but I'm skeptical of the idea. Say i

I've heard this idea before from Sci-Fi author - Gibson, Dick or maybe Stephenson. I've never used an hallucinogen before but I'm skeptical of the idea. Say it worked as you describe - it'd be lowering the danger to the people being gassed (as opposed to shooting or some sort of genuinely poisonous gas) which is potentially OK for enemy civilians but probably not the effect you want for enemy combatants. Compare it to land mines. Those are dangerous as much or more then deadly. Being maimed is (to put it mildly) disheartening to think about, worse still to see happen to a friend and then on top of that a single wounded soldier will generally send them out of action plus the guys who need to take their legless comrade out of the combat zone. If I were off to war and I had to face an enemy who'd set me up for that vs. one who might subjugate me to party drugs I know which one I'd pick. Trickier question is of course - if you were going to war and had to pick which one to dish out which would you pick?