Ever wonder why so many Pop and Rock bands from about the 1960s became involved with drugs and promoted drugs in their songs? Why many of these band members went from being relatively clean-shaven and neatly attired to hirsute slobs? All just a coincidence? According to DRUGS AS WEAPONS AGAINST US, much of this was by design; engineered by forces operating behind the scenes, who are thought to manipulate major world events and control the mainstream media.
The documentary is so well-researched, it's a little boring and overlong. I think at least thirty minutes could have easily been trimmed from its runtime, without it losing any content of importance.
This highly informative expose begins with the history of the opium wars of the mid-1800s. We learn that China at that time had prohibition laws in place which forbade opium. This did nothing to deter some British merchants from smuggling opium into China with the aim of corrupting the Chinese population, via drugs.
It was with that same motive, so the movie informs, that drove certain ones operating in positions of power within the U.S. to help create and manipulate the whole counter-culture movement of the '60s, of free (i.e. irresponsible) love and getting high.
Some of the information presented in this is downright disturbing, like what happened to dear Paul Robeson, Sr.
Heroin. Cocaine. Acid. MDMA (a.k.a. "Ecstasy"). They're all examined here within this context. And as it is brought out in the documentary, designed in large part, with the motive being the same: to disempower the younger generations mentally and physically and ultimately politically. To cause these oblivious yet influential music stars -- and, by extension, their fans -- to become too stoned, sluggish, and slothful to care much about anything other than (socially conditioning) concerts and record releases.
The documentary is so well-researched, it's a little boring and overlong. I think at least thirty minutes could have easily been trimmed from its runtime, without it losing any content of importance.
This highly informative expose begins with the history of the opium wars of the mid-1800s. We learn that China at that time had prohibition laws in place which forbade opium. This did nothing to deter some British merchants from smuggling opium into China with the aim of corrupting the Chinese population, via drugs.
It was with that same motive, so the movie informs, that drove certain ones operating in positions of power within the U.S. to help create and manipulate the whole counter-culture movement of the '60s, of free (i.e. irresponsible) love and getting high.
Some of the information presented in this is downright disturbing, like what happened to dear Paul Robeson, Sr.
Heroin. Cocaine. Acid. MDMA (a.k.a. "Ecstasy"). They're all examined here within this context. And as it is brought out in the documentary, designed in large part, with the motive being the same: to disempower the younger generations mentally and physically and ultimately politically. To cause these oblivious yet influential music stars -- and, by extension, their fans -- to become too stoned, sluggish, and slothful to care much about anything other than (socially conditioning) concerts and record releases.
