Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA's Murderous Targeting of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac, and Other Activists

by John L. Potash

Drugs as Weapons Against Us meticulously details how a group of opium-trafficking families came to form an American oligarchy and eventually achieved global dominance. This oligarchy helped fund the Nazi regime and then saved thousands of Nazis to work with the Central Intelligence Agency. CIA operations such as MK-Ultra pushed LSD and other drugs on leftist leaders and left-leaning populations at home and abroad. Evidence supports that this oligarchy further led the United States into its longest-running wars in the ideal areas for opium crops, while also massively funding wars in areas of coca plant abundance for cocaine production under the guise of a "war on drugs" that is actually the use of drugs as a war on us. Drugs as Weapons Against Us tells how scores of undercover U.S. Intelligence agents used drugs in the targeting of leftist leaders from SDS to the Black Panthers, Young Lords, Latin Kings, and the Occupy Movement. It also tells how they particularly targeted leftist musicians, including John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, and Tupac Shakur to promote drugs while later murdering them when they started sobering up and taking on more leftist activism. The book further uncovers the evidence that Intelligence agents dosed Paul Robeson with LSD, gave Mick Jagger his first hit of acid, hooked Janis Joplin on amphetamines, as well as manipulating Elvis Presley, Eminem, the Wu Tang Clan, and others.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Conspiracy Theories, Politics, American History, Crime, Drugs

457 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 1, 2014

Reviews

[Brandon · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best non-fiction books I've ever read. Every paragraph is filled with amazing information and documentation. From US Intelligence's operations against activists and musicians, to MK Ultra, Operation Paperclip & Sunshine, to the history of elitist drug trafficking. This book is an absolute must read for anyone interested in American History (TRUE American history, that is).

[tickle monster · Rating 5 out of 5]

Must read. Extremely meticulously researched like his Tupac book. References credible sources that are also worth reading. Check it out!!!!

[John Meagher · Rating 5 out of 5]

Took awhile to read this one, only because it was so packed full of information that I had to look into further. Very well written, researched, and documented. Just when you're thinking "wait, wtf" there's a link, book, or documentary to back up that statement with another rabbit hole to go down.

[Valiant Thor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well researched, well written, and well documented. An information-packed book that may forever change how one views drugs and music. An essential book that serves as a worthy companion to Dave McGowan's "Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon" and stands alone on its own merits. The long-running pop music psyop is slowly unraveling, and author John Potash has done much to move that process forward with "Drugs as Weapons Against Us".

[Zachary Diamond · Rating 5 out of 5]

the CIA and US intelligence use drugs as part of the “MK Ultra” mind control experiments to target, sedate, damage, and remove leftist organizers from the political arena. LSD was spread in the 60s thru MK Ultra agents targeting famous leftist musicians, activists, and celebrities, continuing with other drugs to this day

some of my favorite highlights include
-CIA killed Bob Marley
-Jimi Hendrix killed by his MI6 manager
-Courtney Love was a child victim of MK Ultra, but also was a MK Ultra agent herself and spread heroin amongst music scene. Love orchestrated the assassination of Kurt Cobain and US intelligence covered up for her

very fascinating book on how the American empire uses drugs as weapons against civilians to maintain their own power. has really changed my perspective on certain pop culture myths in the American consciousness

[Ietrio · Rating 1 out of 5]

It's not the Free Masons, it's the Leftists. Otherwise, no significant change in the conspiracy story.

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[Wan Shi · Rating 2 out of 5]

You can read this book one or two ways.

The first way, would be to just consume it as entertainment and not consider any fact checking when the author is making claims

The second, would be to fact check the author claims and do your own research on all of the information the author is presenting.

I was reading it the first way, then once I was nearly done with the book, started to read it the second way.
I must admit, the author does cite his sources for some of the things he says, but as I was reading, I started to notice some of the things weren’t really backed up by real evidence or anything that could validate or confirm the claims that were being made.

I eventually got to the part where he dedicated a chapter to Kurt Cobain and the story surrounding his death, Courtney love, and others involved.
I didn’t do all of my research, but it’s been well documented now that some of the stories that have been made after Kurt died were false, and have been debunked. The author was just rehashing these stories without actually confirming if they were true or not.

Then I got to the point where he also dedicated a chapter to Tupac, and I realized, this was more about presenting some information, and then trying to fit that with the narrative that he wanted to establish.
There’s a part in the book, where he goes over the case of Tupac shooting at the off duty cops who were beating a guy in the streets.

The author makes a claim and says “this is evidence Tupac was targeted by U.S. intelligence!” But he doesn’t consider that if Tupac hadn’t gotten out of the car to fire at those officers, the situation wouldn’t even had happened. Tupac initially escalated a situation that didn’t even involve him. How is this evidence that U.S. intelligence was targeting him?

This, and things that the author was saying, made me want to finish the book ASAP. Some of the stuff in this book isn’t backed by factual evidence, the author will just say “evidence supports this” without even presenting said evidence.

I did enjoy the publisher’s afterword a bit, but this is a book I will have to come back to, when I’m interested in fact checking everything the author said and presented in the book.

This book would’ve been more fun to read if it were also more organized, because the author will switch to a different idea or subject under a chapter that doesn’t have any connection between them, or no connection being made. It’s a very long read.

I can’t say it would be worth the time to read it if you’re interested in conspiracy theory books like this.

[Alex · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well this was a lot of fun

[aisha · Rating 5 out of 5]

Easily one of the best nonfiction books I’ve ever read. Jam packed with sources that allow you to continue learning, definitely a reread for me and I’m excited to watch the documentary.

[Derek · Rating 4 out of 5]

excellent book! manages to cover an incredibly broad range of topics touching on several different modern "deep events" while giving a solid through-line that should leave you effectively persuaded by midway through the book. though Potash is at times required to give a very general view of some subjects due to considerations of length and focus, i was surprised by the cohesiveness of the whole thing with that in mind. he even manages to discuss the big '60s assassinations which, while a popular topic, is something that i never really thought of in the light of MKULTRA operations specifically. obviously there was a big focus on the '60s and '70s as this was the era in which anti-colonial revolutions necessitated some of the more brazen measures of internal repression that had been taken by the capitalist state at that point, so LSD definitely seems to be the overarching theme here and this he covers very well. it's hard to tell if he uses the examples of popular musicians because of their importance alone or solely due to accessibility but it is interesting and provides a very good means of piquing people's interest for the purposes of political education. i do wish more time was spent describing the work done by the specific individuals that caused them to be targeted by the intelligence apparatus as i think these sorts of murders have an element of punishment to them in addition to being preventative. the final chapters on more contemporary policy would be great if expanded and i hope Potash continues working in that direction in the future. also the two chapters on Cobain were surpringly illuminating!