Group A

On the contrast between the part of Moloch and the rest of the poems more "drugs are evil" connotation, I don't think they are mutually exclusive. I think a theme of the poem is that the horrors of the wars in the twentieth century drove Solomon and his peers to a hazy, drug-ruled existence. It's somewhat ambiguous whether this is due to protest or a reaction from wars Solomon's peers have experienced first hand, but the result is the same. So it's not entirely illogical, though I suspect that Nick is correct that it was intentionally written to seem that way.