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We have our own long standing issue with drugs. PT 1
History Channel America’s War on Drugs...brought to you via the CIA. http://www.history.com/shows/americas-war-on-drugs

LONG POST: It is a MUST READ! It continues to this day with the push to keep our Borders WIDE open to these drug runners! History Channel’s “America’s War on Drugs”
I’ll just post a sort of synopsis for now—I think so far the series is good. I saw the first two episodes last nigh The first dealt with the 1960s and ‘70s, and showed how the CIA introduced LSD to the general population. They were performing mind-control experiments as a part of MKULTRA, especially Operation Midnight Climax (actually even sleazier than it sounds) and the Donald Ewen Cameron experiments at the Allan Memorial hospital in Montreal. Their biggest mistake, apparently, was signing up a young man named Ken Kesey as a subject at a hospital in Southern California, and from there the genie was out of the bottle. To Tim Leary and his hippies.

Then we see Nixon’s initiation of the official War on Drugs mainly as a means of cracking down on counter cultural elements such as antiwar protesters and black activists. Meanwhile, Vietnam becomes the epicenter of a heroin epidemic, and a veteran named Celerino Castillo gets tired of seeing his friends die and decides to join the DEA.

Then it’s on to the second episode, which deals with the late ‘70s and ‘80s. Fun fact: Jimmy Carter’s drug czar was a coke addict. The whole cocaine thing gets more serious, though, as the US enlists some decidedly dodgy allies to help overthrow Communist-oriented foreign regimes, ranging from the Medellin cartel to Klaus Barbie. (I wish I were joking.) Castillo’s work tips him off to what would eventually become known as the cocaine-Contra scandal, in which we helped establish a trade route that would enable us to ship arms to the Nicaraguan Contras as they shipped cocaine out. I knew about that, thanks to the fascinating biopic “Kill the Messenger,” based on the life of Gary Webb, who wrote an exposé on the scandal for the Washington Post. What I didn’t know was that George H. W. Bush knew all about it and was fine with it. Castillo recounts a revealing encounter with Bush at a Guatemalan embassy party that made him realize this. In the meantime, draconian laws disproportionately targeting crack cocaine users and dealers over powder cocaine users and dealers ensured that black Americans, who made up 12% of the population, represented 60% of all drug convictions by the end of the ‘80s. In the meantime, Oliver North, who was partially instrumental in getting crack into the country, walked away from Congressional perjury on the subject without doing a day of time.

G. Gordon Liddy went after the drug dealers, because he didn’t ‘read’ 1 their phony ‘Miranda Rights’ he was crucified.

So if you ever have an opportunity to see some of it, I would recommend it, at least so far. I hope the next two episodes are as good. We’ll see in the coming days.