its a peculiar irony that drugs such as lsd, heroin and cocaine were introduced into the anti-war community in the sixties as a form of “active measure” by the u.s. intelligence community specifically intended to disrupt their activities and discredit or otherwise inhibit the effectiveness of its leadership.
the results were overwhelmingly successful, but the “project” snowballed and got out of hand, creating a significant problem of its own as an unintended consequence.