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Original Title: TIL from the 1970s to 1990s, the South African apartheid government conducted “Project Coast,” a program where they investigated using recreational drugs, snake venom, pheromones, bacteria, viruses, heavy metals, pesticides, poisons, and more as biological weapons for both war and crowd control.