For understanding more about drug promotion in organizing (the person “going around giving out free ______ at actions”) I found this video/podcast pretty informative:
Exposing the secret history of the CIA’s involvement in promoting LSD and the hippie movement. During today’s episode, we discuss how the U.S. government has appropriated drugs as weapons against progressive, left-wing, and anti-imperialist movements. We talk about the roots and purpose of Project MKUltra, an illegal human experimentation program carried out by the CIA. We also discuss how key moments in hippie history, like Woodstock and the Summer of Love, were carefully coordinated by U.S. intelligence. Today’s guest is John Potash, the author of “Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA’s Murderous Targeting of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac and other Activists.” John is also the author of “The FBI War on Tupac Shakur: The State Repression of Black Leaders from the Civil Rights Era to the 1990s.” […] He has worked counseling people with mental health problems and addictions for over 25 years.
A friend of mine credits their leftist journey in part to LSD, which is pretty ironic, lol. They’re not out promoting it or anything just came up in conversation once. Not sure the legitimacy, if they’re just attributing it to the wrong thing or whatever but I find it amusing regardless.
Individual people will have their own experiences with drugs, and that’s fine. Cases of drugs being a good experience for some person will always be found, along with cases of drug use being a mixed experience, or a destructive and regrettable one for someone else. Its effect on one individual person is not necessarily going to be the same as its cumulative effect on a whole group of people (especially in cases where it is being purposely used as a tactic against organizers). Blanket acceptance or blanket banning of drug use without studying its many forms, facets and effects would be a failure to study the issue scientifically.
In any case I think it’s good to learn about how drugs can be used as a weapon against revolutionary organizing, such as when it comes to “the person handing out free drugs during organizing”. While I’m sure there’s a few such people out there who just do it for their own reasons, it’s still a known tactic conducted by anti-communist agents, and regardless of the reason someone is doing it, its effect on organizing must also be taken into account.
(Sorry if my reply sounds overly serious, I can see your comment is kind of lighthearted. This is just how I tend to write most of the time.)
For understanding more about drug promotion in organizing (the person “going around giving out free ______ at actions”) I found this video/podcast pretty informative:
“How the CIA Promoted LSD & Hippies”
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6ZZhKApqvw
Audio: https://soundcloud.com/unmaskingimperialism/how-the-cia-promoted-lsd-hippies-unmasking-imperialism-ep-69
A friend of mine credits their leftist journey in part to LSD, which is pretty ironic, lol. They’re not out promoting it or anything just came up in conversation once. Not sure the legitimacy, if they’re just attributing it to the wrong thing or whatever but I find it amusing regardless.
Individual people will have their own experiences with drugs, and that’s fine. Cases of drugs being a good experience for some person will always be found, along with cases of drug use being a mixed experience, or a destructive and regrettable one for someone else. Its effect on one individual person is not necessarily going to be the same as its cumulative effect on a whole group of people (especially in cases where it is being purposely used as a tactic against organizers). Blanket acceptance or blanket banning of drug use without studying its many forms, facets and effects would be a failure to study the issue scientifically.
In any case I think it’s good to learn about how drugs can be used as a weapon against revolutionary organizing, such as when it comes to “the person handing out free drugs during organizing”. While I’m sure there’s a few such people out there who just do it for their own reasons, it’s still a known tactic conducted by anti-communist agents, and regardless of the reason someone is doing it, its effect on organizing must also be taken into account.
(Sorry if my reply sounds overly serious, I can see your comment is kind of lighthearted. This is just how I tend to write most of the time.)
Yet again, the western left fixation on drugs has its source proven to be linked to feds. How expected.