I'm not the biggest fan of how drugs and things of that sort are often uncritically idealized among "leftist" spaces. Now, don't get me wrong; I'm not some kind of puritan who wants to ban all drugs or weed or something. After all, the america's war on drugs shows that total prohibition brute force is often counterproductive and often built on misinformation, but it's not like drugs are an inherently liberatory thing. Hasn't it been well-documented how often reactionary forces weaponize drugs to harm certain communities and peoples? What about the opium wars, where britain smuggled in tons of opium in response to being banned from getting tea to reverse a massive trade deficit caused by high demand for chinese tea, and in response to china banning opium, went to war and occupied hong kong and basically jump-started the century of humiliation? or what about the involvement of intelligence agencies? again i do not belive drugs are inherently harmful, but too many people often paint the situation with a broad brush and think it's solely black and white. I've been getting more critical of some of the sentiments around it lately, especially with it being known that paul krasner, member of the merry pranksters and founding founding member of the yippies, has been associated with epstein. theres also the book and accompanying documentary "drugs as Weapons Against Us" by john potash although i haven't read/watched it yet plus i heard that the doucumentary uses text to speech which dosen't give me high hopes, oh well.