Many attempts have been made to turn intoxicants into weapons, or even to use them in the hope of turning ones enemies into addicts. Even the US got into the game in the 1950's and 60's when the US Army and CIA did their best to turn many of these drugs into weapons to use against people. |
Year | Headline | Publication | Issue Date |
1919 | Our share in drugging China | New Republic | Dec 24 |
1935 | Is Japan drugging China? | Christian Century | Aug 14 |
1936 | Japan's drug traffic in South China | Christian Century | Jan 8 |
1938 | Opium as a weapon | Newsweek | Jun 27 |
1940 | Dope, Japan's new weapon | Reader's Digest | Mar |
1942 | Japan's secret weapon: dope | Reader's Digest | Aug |
1942 | Hypnotically drugged troops may be next development | Science Digest | Sep |
1943 | Opium boat; Japan's silent weapon at work | Collier's | Jul 10 |
1951 | Marines and marijuana | Newsweek | Dec 31 |
1955 | Red China exports opium to make dope addicts of our boys in Asia! | Reader's Digest | Feb |
1964 | Dope invades the suburbs | Sat Eve Post | Apr 4 |
1967 | Mary Jane in action; GI's arrested in Vietnam on charges of smoking pot | Newsweek | Nov 6 |
1969 | Vietcong's secret weapon: marijuana | Science Digest | Apr |
1970 | Do drugs lead to violence? | Look | Apr 7 |
1975 | More guinea pigs; army experiments | Time | Aug 4 |
1975 | Secret drug tests -- dangers, safeguards | US News | Aug 4 |
1975 | Another LSD victim? apparent victim of army drug experiments | Newsweek | Aug 25 |
1977 | Mind-bending disclosures; CIA testing | Time | Aug 15 |
1977 | Mind controllers: CIA testing | Commonweal | Sep 2 |
1977 | CIA's electric kool-aid acid test | Psychology Today | Nov |
1978 | Are drugs crippling our armed forces? | US News | Aug 14 |
1979 | Sex, drugs and the CIA: the shocking search for an ultimate weapon | Saturday Review | Feb 3 |
1979 | Uncle Sam wants you -- stoned; Army's use of soldiers to test drug BZ in 1965 | Maclean's | Aug 13 |
1980 | Heroin: preparing for a new invasion | Newsweek | Mar 10 |
1981 | Ex-G.I. James Thornwell finally collects Uncle Sam's IOU for giving him LSD | People | Feb 2 |
1981 | Liquor, drugs the GI's biggest foes | US News | Sep 28 |
1982 | Cocaine spreads its deadly net | US News | Mar 22 |
1983 | How drugs sap the nations strength | US News | May 16 |
1986 | 'Cocaine is a loaded gun' | Newsweek | Jul 7 |
1986 | Threat to health from drugs termed 'narco-terrorism' | World Health | Aug/Sep |
1987 | Narcotics: terror's new ally | US News | May 4 |
1988 | An explosion of drug labs | Newsweek | Apr 25 |
1988 | Crack invades the hamptons | Newsweek | Jun 20 |
1989 | Crack invades the countryside | Reader's Digest | Feb |
1989 | Crack's destructive sprint across America | NY Times Magazine | Oct 1 |
1996 | Crack invades a small town | US News | Apr 22 |
2001 | This is your country on drugs | Nation | Jan 1 |
2001 | 'The enemy is every one of us' | Newsweek | Feb 12 |
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