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.)
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.)