Drugs As Weapons Against Us

Drugs As Weapons Against Us
Movie · Documentary

Drugs as Weapons Against Us presents evidence that the CIA manipulated musicians and activists to promote illegal drugs for social control, particularly targeting individuals in the Civil Rights and anti-war movements. Evidence further supports that intelligence agents murdered some of these musicians and activists when they started sobering up and stopped promoting drugs. Targeted musicians and activists included Tupac Shakur, Kurt Cobain, John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix, as well the anti-war SDS and The Black Panthers. The long history of drug trafficking includes British and American wars over international drug-producing regions. Wealthy American families who enriched themselves on the drug trade became entrenched in US Intelligence. The CIA and Pentagon influenced the launch of America’s longest wars in the top opium-producing poppy field regions of Vietnam and Afghanistan. The CIA also ran covert operations to control cocaine-producing regions in Central and South America.

2019 · 2h 0m
Starring Timothy Leary, Robert Kennedy, John Lennon
Director John Potash

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Cast & Crew

  • T‌L
    Timothy Leary
    Self
  • Robert Kennedy
    Self
  • John Lennon
    Self
  • Mick Jagger
    Self
  • B‌D
    Bernardine Dohrn
    Self
  • A‌H
    Abbie Hoffman
    Self
  • Jimi Hendrix
    Self
  • F‌H
    Fred Hampton
    Self
  • Kurt Cobain
    Self
  • 2Pac
    Self
  • J‌P
    John Potash
    Director

About

Drugs As Weapons Against Us

Documentary

Drugs as Weapons Against Us presents evidence that the CIA manipulated musicians and activists to promote illegal drugs for social control, particularly targeting individuals in the Civil Rights and anti-war movements. Evidence further supports that intelligence agents murdered some of these musicians and activists when they started sobering up and stopped promoting drugs. Targeted musicians and activists included Tupac Shakur, Kurt Cobain, John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix, as well the anti-war SDS and The Black Panthers. The long history of drug trafficking includes British and American wars over international drug-producing regions. Wealthy American families who enriched themselves on the drug trade became entrenched in US Intelligence. The CIA and Pentagon influenced the launch of America’s longest wars in the top opium-producing poppy field regions of Vietnam and Afghanistan. The CIA also ran covert operations to control cocaine-producing regions in Central and South America.

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Studio
Gravitas Ventures
Released
2019
Run Time
2 hr
Rated
Unrated
Region of Origin
United States

Languages

Original Audio
English
Audio

English (AAC)

Subtitles

English (CC)

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.
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