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lthough L. Ron Hubbard had long recognized what drugs potentially meant in terms of human misery, it was the so-called psychedelic revolution of the 1960s that prompted his most intensive work on the subject. His reasoning was simple—no man can be spiritually free if chained to a chemical substance. Not only did drug abuse endanger one’s health, but also one’s learning rate, one’s attitudes, one’s personality and overall spiritual awareness. Indeed, following a 1972 review of what rampant drug use had wrought among youth in New York City, he began to speak of this drug epidemic in terms of a devastating social cataclysm—and given what followed that psychedelic decade, including rampant cocaine and heroin consumption and all attendant violence, he had been correct. The social devastation proved very much a cataclysm. Nor was the problem in any way limited to street drugs among the youth, but with a psychiatric and pharmaceutical establishment intently pumping drugs into society’s mainstream, the ramifications were actually cultural.
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