This again? The first crackpot theory was that the CIA trucked in crack cocaine into black neighborhood to fund counter-insurgency programs around the world.
Doesn’t sound crackpot whatsoever, given these agencies history. I’ve had to rethink quite a few things in recent decades.
Among the very first programs starting in the early 1950s was extensive covert LSD testing on unwitting subjects in prisons, military, and academia. Many of them black. One of the notable examples was 3 inmates dosed on LSD for 77 days, sleep deprivation was part of the test, so when they tried to sleep they were zapped with cattle prods. Many of the CIA “safe houses” were in San Francisco and Watts.
Now keep in mind this “testing” went on for decades, and in retrospect it seems a little too cute by half LSD became the drug of choice for a period of time in the mid 1960s, it was everywhere, and it wasn’t illegal. Whether by intent or not, it had a profound effect on the destabilization of society. I believe it was intentional.
In broad terms, it looks like the black community were and are used as guinea pigs for experiments, and then the programs are mainstreamed into the larger society. Due to compartmentalization it is possible even a Bush would be unaware. Or it could be craven politics.
People forget how bad the Crack epidemic was. It didn’t occur in a vacuum, it was the residents that demanded action, unless you’re trying to argue that people enjoy living in a war zone. They don’t. The problem is young people and the elderly and everyone in between can’t afford to move, and they got no place to go anyway.
Simple. An extreme cheap high
When you look at the fentanyl scourge, who is affected most, the government cooperation in its import and distribution, it is not difficult for me to imagine sinister forces in DC coordinating this drug.