Scientology's®
mad messiah L. Ron Hubbard had serious drug abuse problems which no doubt
caused further damage to his already unfortunate state of mental affairs.
Hubbard's son L. Ron Hubbard Jr. discussed his father's drug abuse in a
sworn affidavit:
According to statements made by attorney Michael Flynn, Hubbard, until
at least February of 1980, filled out fraudulent "doctor's"
prescriptions for a large array of medical drugs for himself.
Sara Hubbard -- one of Hubbard's bigamist wives -- explained that Hubbard
was "self-medicated," but that during the few years they were
married, she knew of no instances when he used "street drugs."
One-time Scientologist Bent Corydon notes in his book "Messiah or
Madman?"
John McMasters told me that on the flagship Apollo in the late sixties,
he witnessed Hubbard's drug supply. "It was the largest drug chest
I had ever seen. He had everything!"
It was shown in the Armstrong trial in Los Angeles in 1984 that
Hubbard even had blank prescription slips from the U.S. Navy, one of
which had a prescription for phenobarbital (a barbituate and hypnotic)
written in Hubbard's handwriting.
Also, in the Armstrong trial where the
"Affirmations" [handwritten essays
by Hubbard] were introduced, a letter by Hubbard to his first wife was
revealed, the last sentence of which declared: "I do love you,
even if I used to be an opium addict."
Incidentally, Hubbard's "Affirmations"
document was made publically available in the year 2001 by Mr. Armstrong,
many years after the Scientology organization sued Mr. Armstring to try
to keep such embarrassing information out of the public record. There was
an agreement wherein the crime syndicate would refrain from engaging in
its traditional racketeering behavior in exchange for a "gag order"
which would keep Mr. Armstrong from making such evidence public. Since the
Scientology organization repeatedly broke their part of the agreement, Mr.
Armstrong concluded that the gag order was no longer in effect.
It's also important to note that Dr. Kirschner's Post Mortem Report on
25 January 1986 of L. Ron Hubbard found that ten needle puncture wounds
were found underneath a bandaide on LRH's buttock. Hubbard was injecting
himself with psychotropic dope when he died (as stated in the Sierra
Vista Hospital Toxicology Report.)
"I have personal knowledge that my father regularly used illegal
drugs including amphetamines, barbituates and hallucinogens. He regularly
used cocaine, peyote, and mescaline."
Mr. Armstrong told me, among other things, of a letter from Hubbard
to his third wife Mary Sue when Hubbard was in Las Palmas during 1967
at the inception of the Sea Org. This letter is now in the custody
of the court. In it Hubbard tells his wife: "I'm drinking lots
of rum and popping pinks and greys."
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