MAGAZINE OF THE NATIONAL ANTI-DRUG COALITION February 1981 Vol. II, No. 2 The cultural basis for susceptibility to drugs by Lyndon LaRouche Let's make great music Iopular again! Exclusive: nald Reagan's (rticy on drugs Why we must junk METHADONE INed Rosinsky, M.D. Editor-in-Chief Nora Hamerman Associate Editor Michele Steinberg Managing Editor MAGAZINE OF THE NATIONAL ANTI-DRUG COALITION Christian Curtis February 1981 Vol. II, No. 2 NADC News Editor Bonnie Mesaros The cultural basis Medical Editor Ned Rosinsky, M.D. for susceptibility Music Editor to drugs Peter Wyer by Lyndon H. LaRouche . 16 Legal Editor Mary Jane Freeman Let's make great music popular again Art Director Deborah Asch by Peter Wyer An NADC cultural proposal for Production Editor bringing great music back Gail G. Kay into our schools 18 Editorial Board of Advisers Has the military Fausto Charris Romero Max Dean, Esq. surrendered in the David Goldman Konstandinos Kalimtgis war against drugs? DeForest Z. Rathbone by Dean Andromidas and Elijah Boyd Allen Salisbury With more than half of U.S. troops Jiirgen Spahn, M.D. Page 38 using drugs regularly, the Pentagon Jeffrey Steinberg is denying a problem exists 22 War on Drugs is published monthly by the National Anti- Drug Coalition, 304 West 58th Why we must junk Street, 5th Floor, New York, METHADONE N.Y. 10019. The views of the NADC are stated in the edito­ by Ned Rosinsky, M.D. 38 rials; opinions expressed in ar­ ticles are not necessarily those of the coalition. Subscriptions How the pornography industry by mail are $24 for 12 issues, set up the drug lobby $48 for 24 issues, and $48 for foreign air mail (12 issues). Page 47 by Stuart Pettingell 47 Departments Application to mail at second class rates pending in New 2 Editorial York, New York. Postmaster: 4 Detective Dupin forward all change of address forms to 304 W 58th St, 5th 5 Letters Floor, New York, N.Y. 10019. 6 News briefs 8 News 51 Anti-Drug Coalition News Copyright • February 1981 59 Drugfighter of the Month National Anti-Drug Coalition 61 Frontline: Colombia Printed in the U.S.A. All Rights Reserved 62 Books 64 Drugfighter's Target ISSN 0270-2606 On the cover: Soldiers of the U.S. All Volunteer force on maneuver. There is a good chance that at least half of the men pictured here are either stoned, addicted, or otherwise under the influence of hallucinogens or narcotics as a result of regular use. Photo: Alain Keler/Sygma ing and informing our people, so Edito unspeakably banal? Why has sci­ entific education so decayed that a recent national report describes the U.S.A. as a "nation of scientific morons"? There is another crucial ques­ tion that must be asked, although it may not be obvious to everyone that it is the same question. Why does Ronald Reagan, whose per­ sonal commitment to fighting drugs is not in doubt, tolerate among his most influential advis­ ers the evil Milton Friedman, a man who publicly advocates mari­ The antidrug mandate: juana and heroin legalization and who proclaims the world's heroin capital of Hong Kong to be an making it stick example of his idea of "economic he Nov. 4, 1980 elections have freedom"? Tproven that we, the antidrug If we cannot answer these ques­ forces, arte indeed the majority in tions by taking positive steps to the United States. By turning Jim­ remedy the problems they de­ my Carter out of the White House, scribe, then the new electoral man­ the American voters delivered a date will melt away. After all, in mandate for a return to tough 1968 Gov. Reagan of California antidrug laws and their enforce­ stood helplessly by as a British ment after four years of cocaine intelligence project called MK- scandals, rising drug consumption Ultra, led by British aristocrat Al- among the young, and "decrimin­ dous Huxley, made that state the alization." Ronald Reagan has com­ breeding grounds for the hideous mitted his presidency, in his de­ drug-rock counterculture that has tailed reply to the National Anti- since become a national plague. Drug Coalition's questionnaire, to fulfilling that mandate. A question of science Of course, we intend to hold the It should be obvious that to win President-elect and the new Con­ the war on drugs, the antidrug gress to their promises. But the majority must be armed with far fight against the drug epidemic is more powerful cultural tools than only beginning. The results of the those of our enemy. 1980 election have merely posed War on Drugs has performed a the question of this nation's future unique service in this regard by on a more fundamental level. naming the evil forces that are For example, this magazine has behind the drug plague. Some peo­ documented the existence of a well ple don't like us for that, but it has coordinated syndicate pushing made the Anti-Drug Coalitions the drugs and pornography. But why, most effective enemy of the inter­ since we &re the majority, is there national dope cartel. not a far more powerful syndicate Now you must take the further dedicated to the revival of the step of mastering the scientific American System of industrial method that has made us so effec­ progress? Why is classical music tive. Two features in this issue dying—Shakespeare's English all especially embody that challenge. but incomprehensible to high The first is the Anti-Drug Coali­ school youth—the film industry tion's cultural initiative launched devoted to the cult of violence? by Lyndon LaRouche's thought- Why is television programming, provoking statement on the cultur­ potentially a great tool for uplift- al basis for drug susceptibility, and 2 War on Drugs / February 1981 prominent statesman and scientist of early 19th century France, Du­ pin applied the political economy of American founding father Alex­ ander Hamilton to the task of de­ veloping French industry. We set our "reincarnated" Dupin on the trail of one of the nasty diversions that have been thrown out to entrap Americans ignorant of their true history—so-called Secular Humanism. No one knew better than Poe and other Ameri­ can System patriots that good names often mask evil enterprises. To understand what the British liberals have achieved by draping themselves in the name of human­ ism, contemplate how many good but historically uninformed Amer­ icans have cut themselves off from the greatest moral tradition of mankind—the true humanists such as Dante and Beethoven— due to a gut negative reaction just to the word "humanism." "We need another Boston Tea Party; only this time Or take the case of music. Only we should throw out the pot, too." the systematic subversion of what was in Poe's day and even more recently America's favorite the accompanying report by Peter resurrecting the literary method music—the tradition of Beetho­ Wyer on how we can make great of Poe to instruct antidrug fighters ven, Schubert, and their peers— music popular once again. The sec­ in the scientific investigation of a has given us the modern notion ond is our new "Detective Dupin" crime, because Poe has been so that music is merely a matter of column. persistently slandered as a drunk taste. We have turned in both cases to and even a drug addict. As Dr. Wyer demonstrates in his the early 19th century for inspira­ The motive behind this web of article, music is science. Through tion. In that period, after the lies is that Poe was no ivory tower his or her desire to make beautiful American republic was founded by intellectual, but a leading opera­ music, a child learns true free­ Benjamin Franklin and his inter­ tive in the American patriotic in­ dom—creating to resolve the prob­ national collaborators, the strug­ telligence service that saved the lems posed by necessity. He or she gle was to safeguard America's United States from British subver­ becomes scientific in outlook even freedom to grow as an industrial sion. before mastering geometry and republic. It is a suppressed fact of Poe's Dupin is above all the physics, the next phase in a well our history that Great Britain nev­ teacher. He shows his pupil how to ordered curriculum. er accepted its defeat in the Revo­ discover the truth through creat­ We will be just as adamant that lutionary War and tried to destroy ing a series of successively more our elected officials take positive the new nation by economic war­ precise (higher) hypotheses: "Don't action on such educational issues fare disguised as "free trade"—the ask yourself what has happened," as we have been in insisting on antecedent to Mr. Friedman's "free he advises. "Ask what has hap­ drug law enforcement. It is the enterprise" doctrine. pened that never happened be­ American tradition; it is why we fore." Of course, this is the method are waging the war on drugs; and The Dupin 'mystery' of the greatest poets—and the it is the only way to win. Some readers will recognize in greatest physical scientists! C. Auguste Dupin the character Perhaps few readers know that portrayed by America's great poet there was an actual historical Edgar Allan Poe in such famous Charles Auguste Dupin, who be­ stories as "The Purloined Letter." longed to the same pro-American —Nora Hamerman There is a special, ironic justice in republican networks as Poe. A Editor in Chief February 1981 / War on Drugs 3 Detective Dupin On the trail of the Secular Humanoids by Scott Thompson hile the waning dusk still strength superhuman, a ferocity man to other animals.