Peeves bout general leftist sentiment around drugs

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Peeves bout general leftist sentiment around drugs Anonymous 29-03-26 19:10:15 No.980

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.

Anonymous 01-04-26 19:29:23 No.985

'Weird scenes inside the canyon' is a good starter book about the 60's hippie movement being a cia psyop. My personal opinion is that hippie movement was created to rival with growing popularity of maoism, so the youth would rather be drug using pacifists than actual revolutionaries

Anonymous 02-04-26 12:24:59 No.991

>>980

I have heard of McGowan before. While he may be a bit eccentric, his work often a bit too disorganized for my taste and have some takes that I particularly don't agree with, I can't deny that he does his research and is worth reading, regardless of whether he might be entirely right or not. Though I do think that claiming that the ENTIRETY of the '60s counterculture, or at least the hippie movement, to all b just a psyop is a bit reductive and not all that i helpful, But maybe there is something that i just don't know about yet. I will certainly check it out when i have the time.

Anonymous 03-04-26 17:06:11 No.1004

>>991
while it certainly wasn’t entirely a psyop, almost every major figure/community within it (think communes, major dealers, old hippy cults, hippy artists, etc.) was directly supported and influenced by the powers that were, on top of that the main, and to a certain extent at the time, only, producers of LSD were the CIA.

Really any book on parapolitics that discusses the 60’s is a good starting point, its almost impossible to discuss any topics around the time without having to talk about the hippy movement and how it was for all extensive purposes run by intelligence agencies.

Also every OG hippy I’ve ever met is ultralib these days, and completely passive right now aside from their local no kings protests, and thats at best.

Anonymous 03-04-26 20:30:37 No.1009

>>1004
i'll look more into it btw got anything on the supposed rise in maoism in the 60s? it sounds intresting

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