“CIA DRUGS R US” — A Film Review

By Janet Phelan

What do wild sex and drug parties in Laurel Canyon, John Lennon’s assassination and the SDS splinter group, the Weathermen, have in common?

According to John Potash, the answer is “Plenty!” As revealed by filmmaker Potash in his new film, CIA DRUGS R US–A Drugs as Weapons…Sequel, these three historical occurrences are all infested with CIA drug money and intentionality.

John Potash’s film is based on the thesis that the CIA has been deploying street drugs, including acid and heroin, as weapons in order to diminish the effectiveness of those who are in the public eye and have the capacity to garner protest against the direction that the country is taking. The film casts a wide net, involving not only the drug use and subsequent assassinations of a number of politicos and musicians and the intelligence associations of the alleged assassins, but also revealing connections with MK ULTRA and related programs. The film accuses the Agency as being implicated in the takedown of the SDS, fun games with the Manson Family and other sixties icons in the Laurel Canyon crowd.

Tubi describes the film as “A cheeky look into the spook agency’s use of drugs in the murderous targeting of activist celebs like John Lennon, Kurt Cobain and Tupac Shakur.” The film, however, does not stop with celebrity assassinations and suggests that a larger agenda is at play which ultimately affects everyday people.

The film takes on the political movements of the sixties and seventies, and specifically focuses on the use of drugs like LSD to destabilize the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society). The film does not hesitate to name names, drawing connections between possible infiltrators and their connections with intelligence, such as SDS notable Bill Ayers.

The film also looks closely at potential “honeypots,” Yoko Ono and Courtney Love, in terms of their relationships with the murdered John Lennon and Kurt Cobain, providing indications of intelligence connections maintained by the ladies.

Behind the scenes lurks intelligence mandates which implicate the Agency in the opioid crisis and more. The film also explores the intelligence and MK ULTRA connections behind the Catholic Church sex abuse scandals, as well as efforts to legitimize drug taking through a program called MAPS, which is a CIA-funded effort to promote the taking of psychedelics for therapeutic endeavors.

Throughout the film, there are efforts at dark comedy. While the subject matter – which can be boiled down to the CIA’s efforts to manipulate perception and society – could not be more serious, Potash attempts, from time to time, to poke a bit of fun at the players, most likely in an effort to provide some levity to what could otherwise be seen as a horror show.

Potash is no stranger to the drug culture, having first worked as an addictions counselor and later gravitating to trauma therapy. He has directed several other movies, including a prequel titled Drugs as Weapons Against Us—the CIA War on Musicians and Activists, as well as a book and film titled The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and a pandemic-related film, Shots—Eugenics to Pandemics, which came out in 2022. He is a regular contributor to the magazine Covert Action.

CIA DRUGS R US is available on DVD at Amazon with 18+ bonus scene minutes. The movie can also be rented on YouTube for $1.99.

Janet Phelan has been on the trail of the biological weapons agenda since the new millennium. Her book on the pandemic, At the Breaking Point of History: How Decades of US Duplicity Enabled the Pandemic, has been published in 2021 by Trine Day and is available on Amazon and elsewhere. Her articles on this issue have appeared in Activist Post, New Eastern Outlook, Infowars and elsewhere. Educated at Grinnell College, UC Berkeley and the University of Missouri Graduate School of Journalism, Janet “jumped ship” and since 2004 has been writing exclusively for independent media. Her articles previously appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Oui Magazine, Orange Coast Magazine, the Long Beach Press Telegram, the Santa Monica Daily Press and other publications. She is the author of the groundbreaking expose, EXILE and two books of poetry. She resides abroad. You may follow Janet on Parler here @JanetPhelan and Twitter @JanetPhelan14. To support her work, please go to JanetPhelan.

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