The Weaponization of Hip Hop continued
excerpt from recent publication: understanding the assault on the Black man vol 2
. . . . The Army did human tests with mescaline analogues on patients at the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI); one died. Between 1953-1954 the US Army Chemical Center, Edgewood Arsenal funded University of Michigan scientists to study the Army’s synthesis or form of MDMA - code named EA 1475 - and other mescaline analogs. The scientists gave MDMA to guinea pigs, rats, mice, monkeys, and dogs in order to study its toxicity. This U of M study for the Army had an interest beyond MDMA as a chemical weapon, however. In a survey of researched substances conducted for the Army Medical Laboratories it was found: “of immediate interest: the mescaline series, the lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and the marijuana series.” Mescaline (MDMA), LSD, and marijuana have been found together as chemical warfare interests of the military and intelligence organizations from the beginning, just as we found in South Africa. The U.S. Army Chemical Corps did its chemical warfare research at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, and therefore MDMA was called EA-1475, “EA” meaning both “Edgewood Arsenal” and “Experimental Agent.”
III. The Godfather of Ecstasy: Dr. Alexander Shulgin
The most important figure in the weaponization of MDMA is Dr. Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin, known popularly as “the Godfather of Ecstasy.” For very good reason Shulgin, whose parents were Russian Jewish immigrants to the US in the early 1920s, is called a kind of “Einstein of pharmacology.” At the beginning of the 20th century only two psychedelics were known to Western science: mescaline (the root of MDMA) and cannabis (the root of marijuana). By the year 2000, well over 200 psychedelic chemicals were known, most of which were created in the personal lab of Alexander Shulgin. Many of the Schedule 1 prohibited drugs are his creation. “[T]he Drug Enforcement Agency…believes the scientist (Shulgin) is largely responsible for creating drugs popular among today’s club kids.” Many of the party drugs, “such as ecstasy, STP, 2 CT 7, 2 CB and foxy methoxy – have slipped from his grasp and out to the street.” In this way, Shulgin is said to have “influenced global youth culture more than any other in the last 30 years.” But here is the kicker: Shulgin created these sometimes outlawed youth drugs while working for the government! Indeed, “The DEA, having picked up a new substance on the streets, would often bring it Shulgin for analyses – and it would sometimes prove to be one of the ‘materials’ he had cooked up in his backyard.” Shulgin worked for Dow Chemical, for whom he invented the world’s first biodegradable pesticide. He left Dow in 1965 and worked in his home lab making psychedelics, all under the protection of the U.S. government. By the 1970s “Shulgin’s establishment credentials were impeccable.” He consulted for the National Institutes of Health and NASA and worked for decades as a Drug Enforcement Agency lecturer and adviser. As Dann Halem informs us:
For 30 years, while Shulgin was not-so-secretly inventing compounds and advocating drug legalization, he was
also one of the DEA’s leading consultants and expert witnesses at government drug trials. In the Shulgins’ office,
hidden behind a row of musty file cabinets, are two commendations from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau
of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, a precursor to the DEA, presented in recognition of Shulgin’s "significant
personal efforts to help eliminate drug abuse”.
Shulgin testified as an expert on both sides of drug trials. He gave expert testimony for the prosecution because “He didn't mind helping the government put amphetamine or cocaine dealers in jail.” MDMA is an amphetamine. Shulgin even wrote the classic reference book on U.S. law and drugs, Controlled Substances: Chemical And Legal Guide To Federal Drug Laws. For over 20 years Shulgin “held a rare government license allowing him to study and synthesize illegal drugs." In other words, Shulgin was literally given license to create the illegal drugs that kept “appearing” on the streets. And if the DEA believed that Shulgin was “largely responsible for creating drugs popular among today’s club kids,” they knew this because Shulgin had such a close relationship with the DEA well beyond employment.
For a long time, though, Shulgin's most helpful relationship was with the D.E.A. itself. The head of the D.E.A.'s Western
Laboratory, Bob Sager, was one of his closest friends. Sager officiated at the Shulgins' (Alexander and Ann Shulgin) wedding
and, a year later, was married on Shulgin's lawn. Through Sager, the agency came to rely on Shulgin: he would give
pharmacology talks to the agents, make drug samples for the forensic teams and serve as an expert witness -- though, he is
quick to point out, he appeared much more frequently for the defense. He even wrote the definitive law enforcement desk-reference
work on controlled substances. In his office, Shulgin has several plaques awarded to him by the agency for his service. (Shulgin
denies that this had anything to do with his being given his Schedule I license.)
Shulgin in fact created these drugs in his home lab protected by the government.
Shulgin's lab is in the concrete-block foundation of what used to be a small cabin, set into a ridge a few dozen yards from his house
along a narrow brick path. On the door is a laminated sign that reads, ''This is a research facility that is known to and authorized by
the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office, all San Francisco D.E.A. Personnel and the State and Federal E.P.A. Authorities.'' Underneath
are phone numbers for the relevant official at each agency. He posted it after the sheriff's department and the D.E.A. raided the farm a
second time a few years ago. (They later apologized.)
And if this is not enough to certify his establishment credentials, Shulgin was also
a member of the Bohemian Club, one of America's most elite organizations. Every Republican president since Calvin Coolidge along with
America's top CEOs and media moguls has been a member of the all-male fraternity, which meets once a year for a secretive two-week
bacchanal in the California redwoods.
Yet, Shulgin is described as a “ghost of history,” which is ironic given all of the press one can pull up about him today.
…Shulgin has created more than 100 molecules that produce altered states of consciousness, new ways of thinking, feeling and seeing-making
him a kind of Einstein of pharmacology, if not one of the most influential scientists of his time. But even today his work is virtually unknown
outside a select West Coast circle. At the age of 78 Shulgin is a ghost to history, mentioned only in passing in a few articles and missing from the
scholarly drug books, the result of a careful, lifelong avoidance of the mainstream press as well as a dose of government suppression (emphasis added).
The government on whose behalf Shulgin worked would be the “suppressor.” What is a “ghost” to history is Shulgin’s chemical warfare work. Shulgin worked with the Army to weaponize cannabis (THC). In fact, he was the critical factor in this process. He was also centrally involved with the government’s operation to weaponize rock n’ roll music against anti-war young White rebels by using the Grateful Dead to spread LSD. Both of these points will be elaborated on below.
Excursus: The Bohemian Grove and Racist,
Murderous Homosexual Culture in High Places
Shulgin, we learn, is “a member of the Bohemian Club, one of America's most elite organizations.” What exactly does this mean and what are the implications? Founded in 1872 in San Francisco, the all- male Bohemian Club consists of “2,500 of America’s richest, most conservative men”. These men do not represent the powerful but the “ultra-powerful.” These 2,500 - “Mostly, the members are old white guys” – represent America’s military-political- industrial high command. Every year for two weeks in July these super rich and ultrapowerful men gather at Bohemian Grove, a 2,700 acre campground in Monte Rio, California. They gather for “super-secret talks” and a deeply racist (among other things, members have been known to dress in blackface) and homosexualized form of "druid worship." On the business side, the Bohemians gather and make decisions that impact the world. J. Robert Oppenheim, “the father of the atomic bomb,” Edward Teller and other members of the Manhattan Project mapped out the atomic bomb at Bohemian Grove in the autumn of 1942 and there they decided to drop the bomb, “resulting in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki three summers later.” Richard Nixon who had been a Bohemian Club member since 1953, launched his successful 1968 election campaign from Bohemian Grove. The leader of the most powerful nation on the planet is often determined at this yearly gathering. The Bohemian Grove’s central feature is a man-made lake, watched over by the club’s totem, a towering 40-foot owl shrine with a creepy “slightly diabolical vibe.” At this site the two-week bacchanal is opened with a cultic ceremony “with Druidic, Masonic, Ku Klux Kan, and Aryan forest-worship overtones”43 and called the Cremation of Care ceremony. Led by a high priest, these ultra-powerful old white men dressed in red robes and sharp-pointed, KKK-like hoods perform a mock-sacrifice before the owl of a human effigy of a child made of black muslin and called “Dull Care.” This black-colored human effigy represents their “archenemy” (as the “archenemy of Beauty,” which they allegedly represent). The effigy is then placed in a little boat with a carved skull on its tip and its prow, set on fire, and sent across the lake. There is very disconcerting evidence that what is now a black-colored child effigy used in a mock sacrifice was originally a living Black young male that was ritually murdered. On archive.org there is a trove of old photos reportedly from Bohemian Grove. The Bay Area online culture magazine The Bold Italic published two such photos, one reportedly of a 1909 Bohemian Grove ceremony showing a young Black male tied to a table and surrounded by a crowd of old white males (and a few females), and another photo reportedly from that year of a lynching. On an indirectly related note, castrated bull testicles are a delicacy at Bohemian Grove. Every year a cattle baron from central California brings to the camp a large supply of bulls’ balls from his newly castrated herds: “No one goes away hungry,” observes Domhoff, “bulls’ balls are said to be quite a treat.” Readers of our Volume I recall our demonstration of the “Black Bull” as a symbol and metaphor of the Black Man/Black God and of the cultic, ritual killing of the Black Bull in secret white (supremacist) societies in antiquity and more recently. This leads us to the second feature that characterizes the men and culture of Bohemian Grove: homosexuality. President Nixon himself said in 1971: “The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time – is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine, with that San Francisco crowd. I can’t shake hands with anybody from San Francisco.” Transvestism is a hallmark of the yearly bacchanal, as these ultra-powerful men host and engage in elaborate drag shows . . . .