Psychologically, the drugs that are pumped into poor communities meet a real, if thwarted need for a new world, a new reality. They provide escape from the deprivation, the degradation and the suffering of survival in Amerikkkan bantustans, reservations, ghettos, prisons and homeless shelters. They help to alleviate and medicate the stench of living under domestic apartheid. Although, for the impoverished addict who is not busy getting high, but getting straight, the escape offered by drugs is mostly a flight away from negativity, from repressed emotions and rage. They make clear thinking and collective action impossible.
Drug addiction is a full time job, eating up a person' s time along with their brain cells.
Under their spell, the high level of commitment and awareness required for successful revolutionary struggle is doomed, captive to a caged mind and sick body, stuffed with fear. Feelings of inferiority flood the souls of the oppressed. Psychological and physiological dependency insure that the addict continues to dutifully pay to be killed. The chemical bullets, fired upon colonized neighborhoods of the poor and the marginalized, murder the street level unity and power of the people. Direct military assault, except in exceptional circumstances, managed via the media spectacle, could possibly galvanize popular opposition.