Forbidden essays against drug prohibiton

“Provides first-hand, principled, persuasive, and insightful arguments against the current drug prohibition regime existing in the US. Highly recommended reading!”
— Richard Henry Parrish II, author of Defining Drugs: How Government Became the Arbiter of Pharmaceutical Fact

2026

• The Missing Ingredient in the Marxist Utopia - on the psychological naivete of reformers
• The False Consciousness of Karl Marx - Looking for freedom in all the wrong places
• I am the expert on my own mental states - Why scientists should not be deciding what drugs we can use
• You CAN fool everybody all of the time... - at least when it comes to the subject of drugs
• Drug references in English literature - What public domain literature tells us about the drug attitudes of the west
• Some Harsh Words about Winslow's Soothing Syrup - What the patent medicine tragedy tells us about drug attitudes
• About that 17 billion...
• Poppycock! - Why everything you think you know about opium is rubbish
• Doctor Shopping in the age of drug prohibition - when practicing due diligence can be a crime
• Why Drug Prohibition is the Perfect Racist Crime - what the death of Jason Arday tells us about the mainstream attitude toward psychoactive substances
• A Deep Dive into Drug War Hypocrisy - What lifeguard-free beaches tell us about America's attitude toward psychoactive substances
• Notes from a Groucho Marxist - Four drug-related ideas in search of an essay
• It's Another Notes Wednesday! - warning: Substack notes cited in this essay contain choplogic and prejudicial inferences which may be offensive to clear thinking readers
• When Kava Comes, Can Prohibition Be Far Behind? - The national drink of Fiji meets the drug prejudices of the west
• Resolved: that the Scientific Method actually has limits - a protest against the medicalization of mind and mood medicine
• Pity the Ethnobotanist - in the age of the war on drugs
• Give Me Liberty -- except over my own body, of course -- Or Give Me Death - The Drug War philosopher responds to brainwashed substackers on episode 3 of Notes Wednesday
• The Verminization of Drug Users - How drug warriors use medical terminology to justify hatred and intolerance
• When America says 'Hate drugs!'... - the rest of the world says 'How much?'
• Outraged Fingertips - How to get the Drug War Philosopher to write about the drug-related topic of your choice
• Paradise Wasn't Lost - It was abandoned by drug prohibitionists who wanted to make guns relevant again
• We Must Learn to Use Them Wisely - by Dani & The Drug Testers
• Speaking Truth to Substack - It's another Notes Day for the Drug War Philosopher
• David Hume and Whitehead on Drugs - How philosophical misunderstandings disempower the depressed in Drug War America
• To the Unconvinced - an open letter to those who have yet to see the benefits of common-sense drug use
• Antidepressant Vending Machines - some thoughts on pharmacology in the age of AI and drug prohibition
• The Final Solution - When demagogues follow drug prohibition ideology to its logical conclusion
• It's another Note Wednesday (week 2) - time again for the Drug War Philosopher to take Substackers to task for their propaganda-inspired misconceptions about psychoactive substances
• Cologuard Kit for Odysseus - on the medicalization of western life
• Let's Hear It for Quacks - what America's attitudes about patent medicines tell us about drug prohibition
• Intervention - Rescuing Americans from the Great Cult of Substance Demonization
• It's Note Wednesday! - time again for the Drug War Philosopher to take Substackers to task for their propaganda-inspired misconceptions about psychoactive substances
• What I Did on my Summer Vacation - and what it tells us about the evils of drug prohibition
• Alfred North Whitehead on Drugs - how the process philosopher pays short shrift to altered states of consciousness
• Pharmacology and American Drug Attitudes - on the limits of the scientific method
• On Szasz, Whitehead, Dualism and Beneficial Drug Use - a companion piece to the essay entitled 'Why universities should offer degrees in Beneficial Drug Use'
• Why universities should offer degrees in Beneficial Drug Use - a plan to end drug prohibition inspired by the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead
• Lies, Damn Lies, and Drug War Statistics - what online drug data tells us about American society
• Do I have to do everything? - Yes, Brian, you do!
• Philosopher Triumphs over Totally Unnecessary Depression! - publishes five incisive rebuttals to five bamboozled Substack notes!
• Fighting Drugs with Drugs - in response to 'Tonic, Fuel, and Food' by Cecil G. Helman
• Prescription for Disaster - some thoughts inspired by the reading of
• Who is the Greatest Living Philosopher? - Find out here!
• Notes from Underground, Drug War Edition
• Hey, you! You should have the right to take care of your own health. - Yes, YOU!
• What my inability to get off of Effexor tells us about psychiatry and drug prohibition - an open letter to Mark Horowitz in response to his June 2026 post entitled 'Why Doctors Don’t See Withdrawal'
• Madder in America - Why Mad in America is not mad enough when it comes to the disempowerment of the depressed in Drug War America
• Drug Prohibition? WHAT Drug Prohibition? - What do you do when the mainstream is so bamboozled that simple honesty reads like a rebuke?
• The Make-Believe World of Academics in the Age of Drug Prohibition - how behavioral scientists connive with drug warriors to disempower the depressed
• From the Penal Laws of Ireland to the Drug Laws of the United States - How governments always find a way to treat hated demographics like dirt
• The Prohibitive Cost of Drug Prohibition - A philosophical review of 'Dynamics of Intervention in the War on Drugs' by Audrey Redford and Benjamin Powell
• Want to end cigarette smoking? - Re-legalize all the less-dangerous alternatives
• The Swat Team's Back - (and you're gonna be sorry)
• How the Drug War Mindset Threatens to Weaponize Genomic Healthcare - some thoughts on the paper by Richard H Parrish II entitled 'Genomic Medicine and Individual Autonomy: Reflections on Knowledge Societies and Governmentality'
• Why Drug Prohibition is a Meta Injustice
• Cancel Culture and Drugs in America - the only country in which you can hurt a person's feelings by proxy
• We Hold these Truths to be Unimportant - how worried white parents are destroying democracy around the globe in a counterproductive effort to protect their kids
• Who really speaks for the depressed in the age of drug prohibition? - another open letter to Robert Whitaker of Mad in America
• America's Naive Views about Drug Use in the Entertainment Industry
• Scientists are not the experts on my mind and mood - an open letter to David Gems, in response to his review of Pihkal by Alexander Shulgin
• Boom Chickadee (top 10 drug war song)
• Propaganda 1, Human Rights 0 - How drug prohibition has turned America into a drug-hating oligarchy
• Drugs Kill, Fire Bad - It's the dumbest mindset we've ever had
• Half-Off on State Assisted Suicide - act now and get a free 'just say no' T-shirt
• Thomas Szasz, Drug Prohibition, and the Psychiatric Pill Mill - an open letter to Professor Jan Domaradzki of the Poznan University of Medical Sciences
• Freedom has become too dangerous for Americans - The disturbing connection between drug prohibition and the new phenomenon of 'sensitivity reading' in the publishing industry
• Thank You, Syracuse! - an open letter to Doctors James Knoll and Mantosh Dewan
• Wanted: Martian Psychiatrists - Must be willing and able to prescribe pills to make Martian life bearable.
• Cultural Appropriation with a Body Count - How online entrepreneurs set themselves up as the experts on what the depressed need in the age of drug prohibition
• There is no such thing as free speech in Drug War America
• The Trampled Rights of the Depressed in the age of Drug Prohibition - An open letter to Z. Lavallee and A.M. Gagné-Julien, authors of 'Affective injustice, sanism and psychiatry'
• Psst! Meds are drugs. Pass it on!
• Connecting the dots between drug prohibition and disease mongering - an open letter to UVA Professor Joseph Davis, author of 'How Medicalization Lost Its Way'
• Science is too slow for us - Arthur Rimbaud and the War on Drugs
• The problem with putting profit first in a democracy - Or in a former democracy, as the case may be
• Why Artificial Paradises Aren't Artificial - a philosophical analysis of Diary of a Drug Fiend by Aleister Crowley
• Never mind the rights of patients, what about our right not to be patients in the first place? - an open letter to the disease-mongering mental healthcare business
• Here's an idea: Let's use drugs for human benefit! - Reeducating Americans about the common-sense benefits of substance use
• What the series 'Deadline: Crime' tells us about drug prohibition - or at least what it SHOULD tell us
• A bunch of brainstorming notes that you'll only want to read if you hate medicalization and drug prohibition and think that an ethical discussion of assisted suicide for the depressed must include a discussion about drug prohibition - You've been warned
• Forbidden Quotations about the beneficial use of drugs - Things that you're not supposed to know about outlawed substances
• How Google censors pushback against drug prohibition - What happens when a profit-driven monopoly controls the public narrative on controversial social issues
• Just say no to drugs and yes to brain-damaging shock therapy - The insane world of healthcare in the age of drug prohibition
• What they didn't teach you in school - A remedial course on drug benefits for medical ethicists and healthcare majors
• How organizations like Mad in America normalize drug prohibition - An open Letter to Robert Whitaker
• American Top 40: Drug War Edition - The straight dope on how drug prohibition inspired the creation of your favorite hits.
• Psst! Drug use has benefits, too! Pass it on! - A wake-up call to indoctrinated Americans
• The Barbaric State of Mental Health Care in the age of drug prohibition - Why electroshock therapy remains the go-to treatment for ending severe depression in America
• Is it not a language that I speak?
• Why the Mad in America website is dead wrong about assisted suicide for the depressed - An open letter to Robert Whitaker
• Blinded by the Scientific Light - How researchers ignore all obvious benefits of drug use
• The Lonely Voice in the Comments Section - How Mad in America pundits ignore the role of drug prohibition in destroying the lives of the depressed
• What's My Line? Drug War Edition - A laughable game show about a laughable drug policy
• From the psychiatric pill mill to assisted suicide for the depressed - How America's jaundiced view of drugs has deprived the mental health field of common sense
• Sending out an SOS to the Talking Drugs website - an open letter to Andre @ release.org.uk
• What the assisted suicide debate tells us about the evils of drug prohibition - An open letter to Robert Whitaker and the Mad in America website
• Why assisted suicide for the depressed cannot be discussed ethically without discussing the drug prohibition that makes it seem necessary - an open letter to Reason magazine
• Heroin versus Antidepressants - What their comparison tells us about American drug attitudes
• An open Letter to Jacob Sullum of Reason magazine - on behalf of millions of unacknowledged victims of the War on Drugs
• Why scientists gaslight us about the blatantly obvious benefits of drug use - An essay on the limits of the scientific method when it comes to the study of mind and mood medicine
• 15 Infuriating Quotations from Drug Warriors and Their Prey by Richard Lawrence Miller
• Hooked on apps? Seriously? - What the win for the plaintiffs in the case of K.G.M. v. Meta tells us about the drug prohibition mindset
• Censored Bookstores in the Age of Drug Prohibition
• There is more hope in dope than there is in the psychiatric pill mill - How the healthcare industry profits from drug prohibition while denying the depressed the right to heal
• Let Us Pray for Pete Hegseth - and all the other undereducated chest-thumpers in the world who run roughshod over the rights of freedom lovers far and wide
• I want credit where credit's due - an open letter to posterity from the only philosopher in the world who is pointing out the full evil of drug prohibition despite being completely ignored by the mainstream
• The Depressing Story of Laughing Gas in the age of drug prohibition - how the media pillories the substance that inspired the philosophy of William James
• With Plea Deals and Ankle Bracelets for All - How drug prohibition has destroyed the American justice system
• You have the right to give up your rights - The injustice of plea dealing in the age of drug prohibition
• After Szasz - How mainstream drug attitudes have become worse than ever in the 21st century
• AI and Drugs - Garbage in, garbage out
• Quotes from Thomas Szasz - about modern drug attitudes
• How prescription policies have turned me into a child for life - Open letters to policy makers
• Imagine - open letter to the 99.9% of Americans who have been completely bamboozled by anti-drug propaganda
• Open letter to Susan Whitbourne - from a 67-year-old who has been turned into a lifetime patient by American healthcare
• The Medicalization of Life is the natural result of drug prohibition in a scientistic society
• Legalize Cocaine Now - an open letter to prohibitionists like you
• Cocaine: the most demonized drug in the world (for obvious financial and political reasons) - in response to 'Legalizing Cocaine Is the Only Way to End the Drug War' by Mattha Busby in The Intercept in November 2025
• War on Us by Colleen Cowles, J.D. - a philosophical review
• Drug Prohibition is worse than anyone imagines - An Open Letter to Colleen Cowles, author of War On Us
• Gunning for Marijuana Users - Justice Department seeks to revoke drug user's Second Amendment rights
• Drug War Colonialism is alive and well in Panama - reflections on my month-long trip to The Crossroads of the Americas
• Science discovers new method for ending depression: suicide found to have stunning 100% success rate - an open letter to Caiuby Labate, author of Prohibition, Religious Freedom and Human Rights
• The immorality of assisted suicide in the age of drug prohibition
• How Drug Prohibition Will End - What the case of Claire Brosseau tells us about the drug-hating madness of the west
• Open Letter to Claire Brosseau - asking her to join me in fighting drug prohibition
• Claire Brosseau does not need the right to assisted suicide: she needs the right to take care of her own health as she sees fit - an open letter to New York Times health reporter Stephanie Nolen
• It’s Time for America to Admit that it has a Prohibition Problem - How the New York Times keeps getting it wrong about drugs
• Modern Scientists as Drug War Collaborators - How materialist dogma gives a veneer of 'science' to the DEA's lies about drugs
• Elizabeth, I'm comin' to join ya! - How the Claire Brosseau case almost gave me a coronary
• Depressed? Ask Your Doctor if Assisted Suicide is Right for You - Philosophical musings on the strange case of Claire Brosseau
• The Make-Believe World of Modern Healthcare - A look at the hypocritical research interests of the staff at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
• How black comedies have become reality in Drug-War North America - What the case of Claire Brosseau tells us about the evils of drug prohibition
• If Claire Brosseau commits suicide, she will have been killed by drug prohibition - Why assisted suicide for the depressed cannot be discussed meaningfully without discussing the psychiatric pill mill and the drug prohibition that created it
• Does this sound like someone you know? - Is someone you love bamboozled by America's insane drug policies?
• Your feedback is welcome... I think - comments page for abolishthedea.com
• Claire Brosseau should be fighting for her right to take care of her own health, not for her right to assisted suicide - Drug Prohibition is the 6,000-pound gorilla in the room when it comes to the MAID act
• What do you do when a like-minded activist so misunderstands you as to charge you with human rights abuses? - my jaw-dropping email exchange with Matthew Fraser of Drug Truth International
• Drug users don't need treatment, they need education and choice - in response to 41 Surprising War on Drugs Statistics by Elma Mrkonjic, published by The High Court website
• Videos against Drug Prohibition
• The Drug War Museum
• Pissed Off About Drug Testing - an exhibition of protest art from the Drug War Museum
• No one would need assisted suicide if we ended drug prohibition: what Claire Brosseau's case tells us about the warped mindset of the west when it comes to drugs - An open letter to New York Times reporter Stephanie Nolen
• Visualize the Injustice of Drug Prohibition at the Drug War Museum
• Attention Teachers: Get your students talking honestly about drug prohibition - Start a lively discussion with these politically incorrect essays by one of the many victims of the War on Drugs
• Drug War 101: What's drugs got to do with it? - Students and teachers: read this essay and discuss... while it's still legal to do so
• Drug Testing: Discussion questions for students in schools and universities

2025

• How Modern Movies Brainwash Americans about Drugs - a philosophical review of The Southpaw, Nobody and Hook
• Drug War Dictionary - Find out why prohibition is wrong by definition
• Drug War Radio - Listen free to the greatest hits against the hateful policy of drug prohibition
• There's 'No Escape' from the downsides of drug prohibition - A philosophical review of the 2015 action thriller starring Owen Wilson and Pierce Brosnan
• Drug Prohibition is for the Birds - What the Walmart toy department tells us about Drug War hypocrisy
• Drug War Dojo - Learn the lost art of clear thinking in the age of drug hysteria
• False Consciousness in the Age of the Drug War - How depressed Americans blame themselves for the problems caused by drug prohibition
• How drug prohibition damaged my uncle's brain and turned me into a ward of the healthcare state - An open letter to Wade Davis, author of 'The Secret History of Coca'
• Television Commercials and Drugs - How Madison Avenue helps to normalize the incoherent policy of substance prohibition
• Cocaine is a Blessing, not a Curse - How Rolling Stone writer Wade Davis has been bamboozled by drug war propaganda
• We have an absolute right to use drugs - Why the utilitarian approach to drug prohibition is both misguided and wrong
• Drug Prohibition should be protested on principle, not on utilitarian grounds - An open letter to Karen Mamo, author of 'The right to use drugs: considerations for more humane societies'
• Herman Melville and Drugs - What 'The Confidence-Man' tells us about America's attitude toward psychoactive substances
• Why the Outlawing of Cocaine is a Crime Against Humanity
• What the Honey Trick Tells us about Drug Prohibition - And why we need to re-legalize cocaine now
• When Employers Say Piss, Americans ask 'How much?' - How Drug Testing Trashed the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
• A Principle-Driven Approach to Ending Drug Prohibition - an open letter to American academics
• The Hidden Drug War Prejudices of Modern Authors - an open letter to Andrew Monteith, author of Christian Nationalism and the Birth of the War on Drugs
• The Impact of Drug War Propaganda on Legalization Advocates
• How Drug Prohibition Turns Adults into Children
• What drug use could tell us about the rationalist triumphalism of Immanuel Kant - at least in a world in which academics were still free
• Clueless Doctors in the age of the War on Drugs
• Fighting Drugs with Drugs (2025)
• It's Time to Exterminate Hippopotami - a public service message from the Partnership for a Death Free America
• Antidepressants and the War on Drugs - how drug prohibition rendered 1 in 8 Americans chemically dependent for life
• Blast-off for Planet Hypocrisy! - what the movie The Reluctant Astronaut tells us about drug prohibition
• Coverup on Campus - How colleges censor courses to conform with the substance-demonizing ideology of drug prohibition
• Metaphysics and Drugs - What William James could tell us about Kant's Critique of Pure Reason if we would only listen to him
• Meds fry the brain, not drugs - How Effexor made it impossible for me to think straight
• Speak now or forever hold your peace about drug prohibition - An ultimatum for freedom-loving people in an age of nascent fascism
• How psychologists gaslight us about beneficial drug use
• Glorifying Beneficial Drug Use - Harm reduction is great, but we need benefit promotion as well
• How Drug Prohibition makes it impossible to get off of Effexor and other Big Pharma drugs
• How drug prohibition turns Americans into children when it comes to healthcare
• Why it's wrong to follow the science in the age of the drug war - in response to a 2025 essay by philosopher Pascal Boyer
• Here's an idea: let's start teaching kids the truth about drugs
• Why John Stuart Mill is irrelevant to the drug debate - an open letter to misguided utilitarians
• More politically incorrect quotes about the drugs that we have been taught to hate
• America's Big Lie about Opium - How racist politicians deprived the world of a panacea
• Three takeaway lessons from the use of morphine by William Halsted, co-founder of Johns Hopkins Medical School
• Living in the age of Pharmacracy - how drug policy turns the depressed into patients for life
• How drug prohibition makes it nearly impossible to withdraw from antidepressants
• What Malcolm X got right about drugs - how the Black leader refused to view substance misuse as a medical problem
• Ceremonial Chemistry by Thomas Szasz - a philosophical review
• How drug prohibition destroys the lives of the depressed - meanwhile turning them into wards of the healthcare state
• How Drug Prohibition turns Americans into patients for life
• We have nothing to fear but the drug war itself - a brief comedy sketch in protest of America's hateful policy of drug prohibition
• Withdrawing from antidepressants in the age of the Drug War - how drug prohibition makes it virtually impossible
• The New Age of Pharmacological Serfdom - how drug prohibition has turned 1 in 4 American women into patients for life
• Why Drug Prohibition is a Crime against Humanity
• Ask your doctor if healthcare freedom is right for YOU
• How Drug Prohibition Outlaws Healthcare - why the War on Drugs is a Crime Against Humanity
• Plato and Psychedelics - or why a toddler knows that a dog is a dog
• Notes about the Madness of Drug Prohibition - written on my 2025 summer vacation in Wildwood, New Jersey
• How materialists lend a veneer of science to the lies of the drug warriors - a philosophical review of 'The Psychedelic Revolution Will Not be Standardized' by Sara Gael and Joseph McCowan
• What the drug war tells us about American capitalism - why drug warriors should quit while they're behind
• Change Your Mind, Change Your Mind, Change Your Mind - about the highly counterproductive policy of drug prohibition
• How drug warriors have destroyed America's faith in the power of education
• The Drug War Philosopher of the United States of America -- session 4
• The Drug-Hating Bias of Modern Science - a philosophical review of Phantastica by Louis Lewin
• Blue Tide: The Search for Soma - a philosophical review of the book by Mike Jay
• Potty-Mouth Drug Warriors - how drug propaganda has Nazified the west
• There are no killer drugs, only killer drug policies - an open letter to the Prohibition Blunder website
• Time to stop following the science - why materialist drug researchers are blind to obvious drug benefits
• Drug Re-Legalization is the best harm reduction strategy - an open letter to the Drug Policy Alliance
• Sigmund Freud's real breakthrough was not psychoanalysis - It was his discovery that cocaine could be used as an antidepressant
• One Strike, You're Out - how the western world holds drugs to impossible safety standards
• Discussion Questions for Studying Drug Prohibition in Schools and Universities - for teachers and professors who dare to use them
• Why Drug Prohibition is the Ultimate Injustice
• Comments about Drugs
• Quotes against America's hateful War on Drugs
• Elderly Victims of Drug War Ideology
• Communal visions versus personal experiences - why Americans have such diverse reactions to the use of psychedelics like Ayahuasca
• Artificial Intelligence and Drugs - How AI pundits reckon without the drug war
• Drug War Clowns - a standup routine by comedian Adderall Zoloft
• How Drug Prohibition Causes Brain Damage
• Drugs for Webmasters - more obvious uses for the substances that Americans love to hate
• Progressives and Drugs
• Henri Bergson and Drugs - how drugs can set us free
• Why modern philosophers are cowards when it comes to the war on drugs
• The Drug War is One Big Branding Operation - to glorify liquor while demonizing all of its competitors
• The metaphysical presumption of Merlin Sheldrake - a philosophical critique of the 2020 book 'Entangled Life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds & shape our futures'
• Notes on Artificial Paradises -- part 2
• Notes on Artificial Paradises by Mike Jay
• Another non-fiction author reckons without the drug war - open letter to Greg Epstein, author of Tech Agnostic
• All articles about drug-related research are political in the age of the drug war - How the New York Times practices pharmacological colonialism in the interests of the drug war ideology of substance demonization
• Two things that Aldous Huxley got wrong about drugs - comments inspired by the 1959 lecture series entitled The Human Situation
• How Ralph Metzner was bamboozled by the Drug War ideology of substance demonization - a review of essay number 15 in Hallucinogens: A Reader, edited by Charles Grob
• The thin line between honesty and fearmongering in the age of the War on Drugs - a review of essay number 11 in Hallucinogens: A Reader, edited by Charles Grob
• The New York Times is at it again, bashing drugs out of context - in response to Simar Bajaj's lopsided article about marijuana
• The metaphysics of drug use and how the drug war outlaws religious liberty - a review of essay number 10 in Hallucinogens: A Reader, edited by Charles Grob
• Sartre and Speed - a review of essay number 4 in Hallucinogens: A Reader, edited by Charles Grob
• Drug Prohibition and the Metaphysical Search for 'Real' Religious Inspiration - a review of essay number 6 in Hallucinogens: A Reader, edited by Charles Grob
• Want to end freedom in America? Just terrify philosophically clueless parents about the boogieman called drugs - a review of essay number 7 in Hallucinogens: A Reader, edited by Charles Grob
• The Drug War is One Big Branding Operation to Demonize Mind and Mood Medicine - a review of essay number 8 in Hallucinogens: A Reader, edited by Charles Grob
• Why America cracked down on LSD - a review of essay number 1 in Hallucinogens: A Reader, edited by Charles Grob
• Cocaine and Ecstasy are not evil - a review of essay number 2 in Hallucinogens: A Reader, edited by Charles Grob
• Restoring our Right to Self-Medication - how drug warriors work together with the medical establishment to prevent us from taking care of our own health
• The Philosophical Origins of the Drug War Mentality of Substance Demonization
• The Philosophical Significance of the Use of Antidepressants in the Age of Drug Prohibition
• What's My Line? - Drug War Edition
• The Only Good Hippo... - a public service announcement from the Partnership for a Death Free America
• The Make-Believe World of Mental Health in the Age of the Drug War
• Ten Trips - some thoughts on Andy Mitchell's book on psychedelics
• Prehistoric Drug Warrior found at Lascaux Cave in France - newly discovered troglodyte may be the world's first fearmonger
• Three things that set me apart from other drug pundits
• Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use, by Jacob Sullum - a philosophical review
• Drug Prohibition is the Problem, not Drugs - what the movers and shakers get wrong in the drug re-legalization debate
• Your Body, Your Health Care - a philosophical review of the new book by Jeffrey A. Singer
• Censored Bookstores in the Age of the Drug War
• Listening to Thomas Szasz - a philosophical review of Our Right to Drugs
• How Drug Prohibition Leads to Excessive Drinking and Smoking
• How Drug Prohibition Causes Relapses - an open letter to Jeffrey A. Singer of the Cato Institute
• How the Media Puts Drugs on Show Trials - an open letter to Bennett Haeberle of NBC 5 Chicago
• The One Thing that Timothy Leary Got Wrong - a philosophical review of The Politics of Ecstasy
• The Drug War Philosopher of the United States of America -- session 3
• How the West turned the world into a police state - a philosophical review of Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay
• Shut up and take your meds! - an open letter to Iolanda Ganea, peer review assistant for the Academia Journal on Mental Health and Well-Being
• The Kangaroo Courts of Modern Science - an open letter to Mike Jay, author of Emperors of Dreams: drugs in the nineteenth century
• A Drug Free World, and other bad ideas - The UN finally renounces its mad ambition to end all drug use
• You Have Been Ghosted - how the drug war frightens the world into silence
• The Drug War Philosopher of the United States of America -- session 2 - answering your questions about drugs and common sense
• Pihkal 2.0 - Finding drugs that work for users rather than for pharmaceutical companies
• How the Drug War Censors Free Speech
• Prohibition is the Problem - an open letter to Caroline Chatwin & Richard G. Alexander, authors of 'Virtuous drug use in the neoliberal age'
• Skateboards Kill - how many white kids have to die before America wakes up?
• Thank God for Erowid - in response to a 2015 Vice article by Adam Rothstein
• End Drug Prohibition Now - an open letter to Mike Jay, author of Emperors of Dreams: drugs in the nineteenth century
• What Was Soma? - another westerner chimes in on the identity of the drug that inspired the Hindu religion
• Huxley's Reservations about Mescaline
• Shannon Information and Magic Mushrooms
• Husserl and Drugs - how materialist psychology blinds us to common sense about godsend medicine
• Time to Outlaw Shopping Carts - a message from the Partnership for a Death Free America
• How Ketamine Advocates Reckon without the Drug War
• Whitehead and Witches - What do you do when the entire world has gotten hold of the wrong end of the stick?
• My review of Fentanyl Inc.
• Take this Drug Test - to find out why drug prohibition is the outlawing of religion
• Medications for so-called 'opioid-use disorder' are legion - it's just that we have outlawed them all
• A Philosophical Review of 'The Varieties of Religious Experience' - How William James failed to connect the dots
• How Drug Warriors Deny Me the Pursuit of Happiness - an open letter to trolls and materialists
• How the Drug War Outlaws Philosophy - by privileging materialists with unearned victories
• After the Drug War Part 4
• Fallon of the DEA
• After the Drug War Part 3
• Driver's Ed and Drugs
• Drug Warriors are the Problem, not Drug Dealers
• Fentanyl does not steal loved ones: Drug Laws Do - in response to the misguided billboard campaign of Cindy DeMaio and Rachel's Angels
• Fried Brains Over Easy: another Drug War Comedy Routine - live from the DEA Lounge
• Christian Science and Drugs - What Mary Baker-Eddy Got Right
• After the Drug War part 2
• The Invisible Drug War - How brainwashed Americans pretend that drug prohibition does not exist
• The Bill Clinton Fallacy - Why Drug Prohibition is Selfish and Evil
• Soma and the Anesthetic Revelation - How William James failed to connect the dots
• After the Drug War - what a free world would look like
• How the Drug War Outlaws Religion - and why Hindus should be speaking up about it
• Confessions of an Effexor Junkie - how prohibition causes drug problems
• Goodbye Patient, Hello Client - a new shamanic approach to drug use and mental healing
• Condescending Drug Warriors - when former drug users proselytize on behalf of America's Drug War Cult
• Why America's Mental Healthcare System is Insane - and how the work of Alexander Shulgin can inspire us to fix it
• Why Americans Prefer Suicide to Drug Use - how the drug war blinds us to lifesaving medicine
• How Harvard University Censored the Biography of William James - an open letter to Psychology Professor Matthew K. Nock
• How the Myth of Mental Illness supports the war on drugs - and leads to the preventable suicides of our loved ones
• HG Wells and Drugs
• Thank God for Soul Quest - It's time to stop blaming others for the problems caused by drug prohibition
• Every Day and in every way, you are getting more and more bamboozled by drug war propaganda
• Charles Fort Didn't Know from Damnation - an open letter to Mitch Horowitz, author of Uncertain Places
• How the Internet Archive Censors Free Speech about Drugs
• How the Archive.org Website Censors Free Speech About Drugs
• The New Common Sense Way to Improve Mind and Mood - a shamanic approach combining the best of western and eastern medicine
• Dogmatic Dullards - why scientists are the slow kids in the class when it comes to drugs
• Why Scientists Should Not Judge Drugs - an open letter to a reader
• Drug re-legalization is not enough - America needs a new philosophy of life
• The Dead Man - what the first episode of Rod Serling's 'Night Gallery' tells us about drugs
• Ego Transcendence Made Easy - or how Schopenhauer was reckoning without drugs before it was cool to do so
• Psilocybin Breakthrough - praise the Lord, I saw the light
• You Can't Handle the Truth! - why drug warriors ignore the obvious
• What's Drugs Got to Do With It? - the importance of psychoactive substances in modern philosophy
• Schopenhauer and Drugs
• Meister Eckhart and Drugs - how the drug war destroys religious liberty
• Introduction to the Drug War Philosopher Website at AbolishTheDEA.com
• Addiction
• Drug War Propaganda from Hollywood - how movies toe the line with prohibition ideology
• Case Studies in Wise Drug Use
• Drugs are not the enemy, hatred is the enemy - an open letter to Joshua Falcon, author of Designing Consciousness: Psychedelics as Ontological Design Tools for Decolonizing Consciousness

2024

• If this be reason, let us make the least of it! - an essay on the philosophy of George Santayana
• Behaviorism and the War on Drugs - or why doctors and researchers are blind to common sense
• Drug Dealers as Modern Witches - an open letter to Ronald Hutton, author of 'The Witch: A History of Fear from Ancient Times to the Present'
• Eugene O'Neill and Drugs
• How materialists turned me into a patient for life
• The Inhumanity of Drug Prohibition - and its roots in materialist morality
• MDMA and Depression - another open letter to Charley Wininger
• Jim Beam and Drugs
• THE ANTI DRUG WAR BLOG - combatting drug war propaganda and lies, one post at a time
• The Crucial Connection Between Antidepressants and the War on Drugs - notes on getting off of Effexor
• Allen Ginsberg on the Drug War - the quote that says it all
• Beta Blockers and the Materialist Tyranny of the War on Drugs
• There's No Place Like Home - until the DEA gets through with it
• O Say Can You See - what the drug war's doing to you and me
• Why I Support Kamala Harris - and why I cannot understand how enemies of the drug war could do otherwise
• No, I am NOT a wild-eyed dreamer when it comes to drugs - an open letter to my sis
• Drugs are not the problem - no, not even in nursing homes
• No drugs are bad in and of themselves - an open letter to Steven Urquhart, founder of the Divine Assembly
• Ayahuasca's Effects on Westerners - concerning my first experience on 'The Medicine'
• Let's hear it for Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx - and everyone else who stands up to the drug war at the risk of losing their own freedom
• Scientific Collaboration in the War on Drugs
• Even Terence McKenna Was Wrong About MDMA
• The Poorly Hidden Materialist Agenda at Scientific American - in response to the September 2024 issue
• Constructive criticism of the MAPS strategy for re-legalizing MDMA
• Hello? MDMA works, already! - An open letter to Dr. Jessica Maples-Keller, principal investigator for the 'MDMA Plus Exposure Therapy for PTSD' at Emory University
• Science News magazine continues to pretend that there is no war on drugs - an open letter to freelance writer Cassandra Willyard, author of 'A next-gen pain drug shows promise, but chronic sufferers need more options'
• Regulate and Educate - an open letter to Oregon Governor Tina Kotek
• Common Sense and the Drug War - How prohibition and materialistic science work together to turn Americans into babies when it comes to psychoactive medicine
• Feedback on my first legal psilocybin session in Oregon - an open letter to the Psilocybin Advisory Board of the Oregon Health Authority
• Drug Warriors are Murderers - an open letter to UNODC, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• Five problems with The Psychedelic Handbook by Rick Strassman
• What Rick Strassman Got Wrong - a philosophical review of The Psychedelic Handbook
• Taper Talk - a philosophical review of the antidepressant tapering guide from Psychedelic Passage
• Why the FDA is not qualified to judge psychoactive medicine
• Why the FDA is a joke - when it comes to approving psychoactive substances
• Getting off Effexor MY WAY - response to pushback from the Surviving Antidepressants website
• Surviving the Surviving Antidepressants website
• What Can the Chemical Hold? - a review of the paper by Katherine Hendy on Academia.edu
• The Drug War Philosopher of the United States of America - a press conference about the war on drugs
• Psilocybin Mushrooms by Edward Lewis - a philosophical book review
• My Realistic Plan for Getting off of Big Pharma Drugs and why it's so hard to implement - an open letter to Mad in America
• My First Journey on Psilocybin - presented in the convenient form of a presidential news conference
• Epitaph of the Drug War Philosopher - (rough draft)
• Learn Drug War Spanish Here - Aprende español aquí sobre la guerra contra las drogas
• Open Letter to Erica Zelfand - or at least to her gatekeeper
• What the psychiatrist said when I told him I wanted to get off Effexor
• Freedom of Religion and the War on Drugs - an open letter to Ligare, a Christian Psychedelic Society
• Judging Drugs - The Great American Pastime
• Five wrong ways to think about drugs - Which are you guilty of?
• Using plants and fungi to get off of antidepressants - an open letter to the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines
• The FDA is not qualified to judge psychoactive drugs - Here's why.
• GK Chesterton on Prohibition
• Why science is a joke in the age of the drug war
• Oregon's Incoherent Drug Policy - in response to an article by Maria Holynova on Psychedelic Spotlight
• Science's job is not to investigate drugs - It's to prove that drugs are not safe
• Hating on Drugs?
• How National Geographic slanders the Inca people and their use of coca - an open letter to the National Geographic Society
• I hope to use cocaine in 2025 - and other confessions of a drug war heretic
• Our Short-Sighted Fears about Long-Term Drug Use - exposing the Christian Science defeatism of the war on drugs
• Common Sense Drug Withdrawal - an open letter to Austin of the Huachuma Project
• Sacred Plants in the Age of Cynicism
• Fighting Drugs with Drugs
• I'll See Your Antidepressants and Raise You One Huachuma Cactus - an open letter to Austin from the Huachuma Project
• The common sense way to get off of antidepressants - an open letter to Frederick S. Barrett, Ph.D., cognitive neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University
• Too Honest to Be Popular? - Why Drug Warriors hate me, God bless 'em
• Replacing antidepressants with entheogens - new hope for the millions who are dependent on SSRIs and SNRIs
• Searching Peru for Sacred Plant Medicine - in response to 'Entheogens and Sacred Psychology,' by Samuel Bendeck Sotillos
• In Defense of Religious Drug Use - an open letter to Samuel Bendeck Sotillos
• My New Clinical Trial in the Sacred Valley of Peru - on replacing antidepressants with plant medicines
• Getting Off of Big Pharma Meds Using Teacher Plants - or Why I'm Moving to Peru
• How Roxane Gay has been bamboozled by drug war propaganda
• License to Hate - How the drug war brings out the worst in us
• The Racist Mindset of Substance Prohibition - How the drug war renders minorities invisible
• Why Philosophers Need to Stop Dogmatically Ignoring Drugs - an open letter to Matthew D. Segall PhD
• You Have Been Gaslit! - or, when someone tells you that your entire life has been a mistake
• What Goes Up Must Come Down? - So what? Drug use is about psychology, not physics.
• Drug War Comedy Routine - Now we're cookin' with gaslight!
• The New Dark Ages - How the drug war has turned modern philosophy into pseudoscience
• Legalizing Opiates - Some Thoughts about the Formal Recommendation for drug policy changes by Harm Reduction Specialists
• How the Drug War Outlaws Criticism of Immanuel Kant - an open letter to Professor Daniel A. Bonevac of the University of Pittsburgh
• God and Drugs - why I am not (entirely) a Christian
• Looking for God in All the Wrong Places - Antony Flew's unnecessarily slow road to theism
• The Drug War is the Perfect Storm
• The Brainless Initiative - why it's time to REALLY study the brain
• LSD for puritans - FDA gives breakthrough status to LSD Lite from MindMed
• How the Drug War limits our understanding of Immanuel Kant - an open letter to Dr. V.A. Gijsbers of Leiden University
• Psychedelic Cults and Outlaw Churches: LSD, Cannabis, and Spiritual Sacraments in Underground America - a philosophical review of Mike Marinacci's new book
• Finally, a drug war opponent who checks all my boxes - an open letter to Julian Buchanan
• Whitehead and Psychedelics - an open letter to Dr. Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes at the University of Exeter
• Immanuel Kant on Drugs - aka how the drug war censors philosophy
• In Defense of Cocaine - Change your mind, change your mind, change your mind...
• The Book of the Damned
• The Problem is Prohibition, not Fentanyl - a response to Maia Szalavitz' op-ed piece in the New York Times
• When Judges DO NOT Believe in Natural Law - in response to the Atlantic article by Anthony Murray
• Someone you love is suffering unnecessarily because of the war on drugs
• I come not to praise coca but to use it - for improving my health, that is
• Identity Politics and the War on Drugs - Why America is living in a self-imposed Dark Age
• Science is not free in the age of the drug war - an open letter to The American Council on Science and Health
• Step Aside, Entheogens - Why Almost Any Psychoactive Drug Can Be Used for Religious Purposes
• Coca Wine - Coca and its Therapeutic Application, Third Edition, by Angelo Mariani, audio version
• Illusions with Professor Arthur Shapiro - a philosophical discussion of the fascinating series on Curiosity Stream
• The Christian Presuppositions of the Drug War and Why They're Important
• The Muddled Metaphysics of the Drug War - How modern science helps normalize prohibition
• Breaking News: Scientists Realize That Marijuana may not be Evil Incarnate After All! - More Glacial Progress in the war against Substance Prohibition
• Timothy Leary was Right - a philosophical review of 'Start Your Own Religion: New York State's Acid Churches' by Devin R. Lander
• Fentanyl does not kill! Prohibition does!

2023

• Gaza and Drugs
• Drug Legalization: it's not just for Libertarians anymore - why drug re-legalization is not a niche issue
• Matthew Perry and the Drug War Ghouls
• Stigmatize THIS - More Drug War Agitprop from the Atlantic
• Drug War Agitprop - a list of Movies that promote the pernicious ideology of substance demonization
• Psychiatrists Tell Me That It's Wrong to Criticize Antidepressants - Here's why that's nonsense
• The Book of the Damned continued - a sequel to the Charles Fort classic of 1919, featuring the thrice damned accounts of the positive use of drugs
• Treating the REAL problem - the timeworn trope with which psychiatrists defend their lack of common sense
• A Quantum of Hubris - how know-it-all materialists block scientific progress
• The Semmelweis Effect in the War on Drugs
• The Best of All Possible Utopias - How drug use can help save the world
• Prohibitionists Never Learn - an open letter to San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins
• Weed Bashing at WTOP.COM - an open letter to station manager Joel Oxley
• A Dope Comedy Routine About Drugs
• The War on Drugs and the Psychiatric Pill Mill - Why you can’t understand one without understanding the other
• COPS PRESENTS the top 10 traffic stops of 2022
• Calling Doctor Scumbag - a radio play about that crazy drug war!
• Four reasons why Addiction is a political term
• Vancouver Police Seek to Eradicate Safe Use - open letter to the Vancouver Police Department
• What Jim Hogshire Got Wrong about Drugs - a philosophical review of Pills-a-Go-Go
• Clodhoppers on Drugs - a philosophical review of 'The Left Behind' by Robert Wuthnow
• When Drug Warriors cry 'Censorship!' - why Chicken Littles like Kevin Sabet do not deserve a place at the table
• There is nothing to debate: the drug war is wrong, root and branch - an open letter to Nathan of TheDEA.org
• How AI turned William James into a Drug Warrior - letter to the editors of New Scientist
• Physics has found a theory of everything - but you're not part of it
• Three Problems With Rick Doblin's MAPS
• Noam Chomsky on Drugs - a review of 'What Kind of Creatures Are We?'
• The Drug War Imperialism of Richard Evans Schultes - a philosophical review of Hallucinogenic Plants by the founder of the field of ethnobotany
• How Prohibition Causes Addiction
• Prohibition Spectrum Disorder - an open letter to Twitter follower Frank Smith
• How Prohibition Causes Immense Unnecessary Suffering
• The Truth About Opium by William H. Brereton - Refutation of the fallacies of the Anti-Opium Society and a Defence of the Indo-China Opium Trade
• Drug Warriors and Their Prey: From Police Power to Police State - must reading for the Holocaust Museum
• Intoxiphobia - a philosophical review of the academic paper by Russell Newcombe
• Time for News Outlets to stop promoting drug war lies - an open letter to WTOP News
• Disease Mongering in the age of the drug war - a philosophical review of Stanley Krippner's essay on drug-inspired bliss
• Funny Animated Gifs about America's imperialist and racist Drug War
• Movie Warnings from Uncommon Sense - find out if your favorite movies contain drug-war propaganda
• The Pseudoscience of Mental Health Treatment - an open letter to Dr. Jonathan Stea
• How Bernardo Kastrup reckons without the drug war - a philosophical review of 'Why Materialism is Baloney'
• Synthetic Panics by Philip Jenkins - a philosophical book review
• Why the FDA should not schedule Laughing Gas - The laughable proposal to crack down on nitrous oxide
• Open Letter to Roy Benaroch MD
• A message for unhappy campers
• How Addiction Scientists Reckon without the Drug War - an open letter to Professor Thad Polk
• Synthetic Panics - thoughts on the book of that name by Philip Jenkins
• Canadian Drug Warrior, I said Get Away - an open letter to Cory Morgan, columnist for the Western Standard
• The American Gestapo - Law enforcement in the age of the drug war
• Open Letter to Margo Margaritoff
• Doping Arizona - FDA approves Lexapro for kids
• In Defense of Opium - Open letter to Marco Margaritoff
• Science News Unveils Shock Therapy II - just when you thought it was safe to go back into the insane asylum...
• Lord Save us from 'Real' Cures - in defense of 'treating the symptoms'
• Responding to Brainwashed Drug Warriors on YouTube
• The Drug War Gift Shop - all proceeds go toward keeping the webmaster from begging on street corners
• Science News Continues to Ignore the Drug War - open letter to Laura Sanders
• Tapering for Jesus - how drug warriors moralize the withdrawal process
• Open Letter to Vincent Hurley, Lecturer - at Maquarie University, Department of Security Studies and Criminology
• Helping the Elderly with Drugs - Call for a new paradigm and protocol
• How the US Preventive Services Task Force Drums Up Business for Big Pharma - an open letter to Task Force member David Chelmow MD
• Why Science is the Handmaiden of the Drug War - an open letter to physicist Carlo Rovelli
• David Chalmers and the Drug War - how reductive materialism ruins American healthcare
• Drug War: the Musical!
• Jefferson - how to protest the 1987 DEA raid on Monticello
• The Right to LIVE FULLY is more important than the Right to DIE - open letter to Gino Kenny, People Before Profit
• The Placebo Effect and Drugs - How materialist doctors screw their patients in the age of the drug war
• The Problem with Michael Pollan - Why a botanist should not support the drug war
• Why doctors should prescribe opium for depression - how materialists collude with drug warriors to keep us from using godsend medicine
• I've got a bone to pick with Jim Hogshire - a philosophical review of 'Opium for the Masses'
• How the Drug War is Threatening Intellectual Freedom in England - an open letter to British Philosophers
• Drug War Jeopardy!
• My conversation with the Thomas Jefferson Foundation - protesting the DEA raid on Monticello
• A Misguided Tour of Monticello - Listen and learn how the Monticello Foundation betrayed Jefferson in 1987
• How the Jefferson Foundation Betrayed Thomas Jefferson - letter to Sites of Conscience
• Another Cry in the Wilderness - open letter to US Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine
• What Carl Hart Missed - Why 'Drug Use for Grown-Ups' Gets a B+
• Why Rick Doblin is Ghosting Me - An open letter to apologists for the psychiatric pill mill
• Open Letter to Dr. Carl L. Hart - author of 'Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear'
• Drug War U. - Department of Drug War Studies
• Opium for the Masses by Jim Hogshire - A philosophical review
• Drugs CAN Be the Answer
• The Drug War Mindset
• Ten Points that no one ever makes about so-called Drugs
• More Weed Bashing at the Washington Post
• Assisted Suicide and the War on Drugs
• The aesthetic difference between addiction and chemical dependency
• Even Howard Zinn Reckons without the Drug War - a philosophical review of 'A People's History of the United States'
• Partnership for a Death Free America
• Corner on Coca! - collect nature's godsend medicines while protesting the War on Drugs!
• Whiteout - A Philosophical Review
• Why SSRIs are Crap - testimony from an expert
• Time to Glorify Drug Use
• Declaration of Independence from the War on Drugs
• The Criminalization of Nitrous Oxide is No Laughing Matter - an open letter to the Drug Policy Alliance
• Night of the Addicted Americans
• Science Set Free... NOT! - How Rupert Sheldrake reckons without the drug war
• How Scientific American reckons without the drug war - in response to 'A Talking Cure for Psychosis' by Matthew M. Kurtz
• Materialism and the Drug War Part II - open letter to the Discovery Institute
• Snoop Pearson's muddle-headed take on drugs
• In Praise of Opium
• How Thomas Nagel Reckons Without the Drug War - a philosophical review of Mind and Cosmos
• Scientists are not qualified to study the effects of DMT
• Drug War? What Drug War? - how scientists pretend that the drug war does not exist
• Using Ecstasy in Church - Reviving church attendance with the use of entheogens
• Drug Warriors Anonymous - a new group for those who have been brainwashed by drug war propaganda
• How Science News Reckons Without the Drug War
• How Milton Friedman Completely Misunderstood the War on Drugs
• William James rolls over in his grave as England bans Laughing Gas - an open letter to Steve Taylor, author of 'The Genius of William James'
• Why the Drug War is even worse than Doug Bandow thinks it is
• Conservative Lies about Drugs
• Keep Laughing Gas Legal - Open letter to Niamh Eastwood (Executive Director of Release) and Dr. David Nicholl (NHS neurologist), in response to their recent interview about laughing gas on Channel 5, UK
• The End Times by Bryan Walsh - another American author reckons without the drug war
• What Terence McKenna Got Wrong About Drugs

2022

• Modern Addiction Treatment as Puritan Indoctrination
• How the Drug War Turns the Withdrawal Process into a Morality Tale
• What Andrew Weil Got Wrong - a philosophical review of 'From Chocolate to Morphine: Everything You Need to Know about Mind-Altering Drugs'
• The DEA Scheduling System is Based on Lies
• News Flash: Drug Use Can Be a Good Thing! - regarding the lopsided focus on harm reduction
• Depressed? Here's why you can't get the medicines that you need - how the FDA's drug approval process is based on big-money politics and the drug war ideology of substance demonization
• The Michael Pollan Fallacy - the lopsided concern for ignorant young people in the re-legalization debate
• Let's Hear It For Psychoactive Therapy - as opposed to just Psychedelic Therapy
• Blaming Drugs for Nazi Germany - the philosophical problems with 'Blitzed' by Norman Ohler
• The Origins of Modern Psychiatry - How to create a billion-dollar industry in three easy steps
• Drug Use as Self-Medication
• Obama's Unscientific BRAIN Initiative
• Open Letter to Rick Doblin and Roland Griffiths - the downsides of 'working within the system'
• The Lopsided Focus on the Misuse and Abuse of Drugs - Some thoughts on the Sam Harris podcast interview with Roland Griffiths
• Alexander Shulgin: American Hero
• How Scientific Materialism Keeps Godsend Medicines from the Depressed
• Public Service Announcements for the Post-Drug War Era
• Open Letter to Vincent Rado - agreeing to disagree?
• There Must Be Some Misunderstanding - clarifying my views on ending the War on Drugs
• The Naive Psychology of the Drug War - how drug war ideology has blinded us to godsend therapies for depression
• Kevin Sabet and What-About-Ism
• Psychoactive Drugs and the Fountain of Youth
• Teenagers and Cannabis - an open letter to Clinical Professor Bobby Smyth at the School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin
• Capitalism and the Drug War Pt 2
• How the Cato Institute is Bamboozled by Drug War Propaganda - A philosophical review of The Fire Next Door by Ted Galen Carpenter of the Cato Institute
• Richard Rudgley condemns 'drugs' with faint praise - a philosophical review of The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances
• Rat Out Your Neighbors - brought to you by America's DEA
• Mental Illness and the Drug Apartheid of Julian Buchanan
• Why Kevin Sabet's approach to drugs is racist, anti-scientific and counterproductive
• My Conversation with Michael Pollan - about the war on drugs
• Why I Am Pro Drugs
• Questions for Kevin Sabet
• The Problem with Following the Science - How Kevin Sabet caused the problem that he's trying to solve
• Kevin Sabet and Drug War 2.0
• One of these things is not like the other - Court Cam nonsense in the age of the drug war
• Why Kevin Sabet is Wrong - philosophically speaking
• Majoring in Drug War Philosophy - an open letter to Professor David Nutt
• Michael Pollan and the Drug War
• Did You Take Your Meds? - The question that speaks volumes about drug war hypocrisy
• How to end the war in Mexico, stop inner-city killings and cure depression in one easy step
• There are no such things as 'killer drugs'
• Twelve Signs of Early Fascism - in the War on Drugs
• Testing Employee Urine for Fun and Profit
• Michael Pollan on Drugs - how Michael ALMOST 'gets it'
• Suicide and the Drug War
• Sherlock Holmes versus Gabor Maté
• Venezuela continues to kowtow to US Drug Policy
• Drug War Uber Alles - How the Drug War has turned the entire world into one big Christian Science theocracy
• The Runner: Racist Drug War Agitprop
• Listening to Laughing Gas
• Hurray for Self-Medicating
• When you say 'Drugs'
• Ignorance is the problem, not drugs - Toward a new psychiatric paradigm
• Why the Drug War is Worse than you can Imagine - an open letter to Damon Barrett
• Ignorance is the enemy, not Fentanyl - open letter to Lynn Walker of the Wichita Falls Times Record News
• Open Letter to Diane O'Leary - author of 'Medicine's Bad Philosophy Threatens Your Health'
• Re-Legalize Opium Now
• Open letter to Wolfgang Smith - author of 'The Quantum Enigma'
• Doctor Feel Bad
• How the Drug War Turns Kids' Lives into a Living Hell
• Open Letter to Richard Hammersley - about addiction
• American City Homicide Awards 2021
• Richard Feynman and the Drug War - aka On the Limits of the Scientific Method
• Why Drug Free Zones are Dangerous and Unconstitutional
• Brahms is NOT the best antidepressant - A critique of The Emperor’s New Drugs
• The Unpeople of Southeast Washington, D.C.
• Chomsky's Revenge - how ending the drug war will help reset America's moral compass
• Boycott Singapore - before it kills any more Christian Science heretics
• Chomsky is Right - how the drug war shattered my rose-colored glasses
• The Drug War and Armageddon - An open letter to Bryan Walsh, author of End Times
• Heidegger on Drugs
• Science Fiction and the Drug War
• How the Drug War Screws the Depressed - an open letter to Dr. Alan I. Leshner
• The Prozac Code
• Depression is real, says the APA, and they should know: they cause it!
• Punky Brewster's Shrooms - How the Drug War bamboozles kids about so-called 'drugs'
• Drug Testing and the Christian Science Inquisition - how the drug war protects Christianity from competition
• The Mother of all Western Biases - an open letter to Science News
• The Invisible Mass Shootings - open letter to Criminologist James Alan Fox
• Spike Lee is Bamboozled by the Drug War
• Attention American Screenwriters: please stop spreading Drug War propaganda
• Open letter to Kenneth Sewell - author of Red Star Rogue
• Smart Uses for Opium and Coca - and other psychoactive substances that drug warriors love to hate
• Have you been brainwashed by the drug war? - Take this test to find out
• The Drug War as a Litmus Test for Philosophical Wisdom
• Why DARE should stop telling kids to say no - open letter to the Christian Science propaganda organization called DARE
• Time to ACT UP about the racist drug war - Speaking truth to prohibitionist power
• In praise of doctor hopping
• Open Letter to Anthony Gottlieb - author of The Dream of Enlightenment
• Twelve Reasons why the DEA should be abolished - and its leaders put on trial for crimes against humanity
• Nature's Most Wanted - Have you seen these botanicals?
• Open Letter to Francis Fukuyama - author of Liberalism and its Discontents
• Materialism and the Drug War
• Why CBS 19 should stop supporting the Drug War - an open letter to the CBS affiliate in Charlottesville, Virginia
• The Ketamine Mirage - and what it tells us about the Drug War
• Open Letter to Nathan at TheDEA.org
• Open Letter to Lisa Ling - whose documentary about Chicago violence does not even mention the Drug War!!!
• Drug Warriors can go to Hell - a little well-intentioned feedback from a victim of America's war on mind medicine
• Cradle to Grave with Drug War Propaganda
• Moonfall - a drug-war movie review
• Forbes Magazine's Laughable Article about Nitrous Oxide
• The Dark Side of the Monticello Foundation
• Connecticut Drug Warriors want to charge drug dealers with murder
• America's Imperialist Christian Science War on Drugs - How the Drug War is a War on the Depressed
• How the Drug War is a War on Creativity
• Why Americans Can't Handle the Truth about Drugs
• The Menace of the Drug War - open letter to Arab Naz, author of The Menace of Opiate
• Critique of the Philosophy of Happiness - an open letter to Stanford Philosophy Department
• Intoxiphobia by Russell Newcombe - A critique
• Top 10 Problems with the Drug War - and how we respond to it -- an open letter to Professor Nathan Nobis
• Why Louis Theroux is Clueless about Addiction and Alcoholism - like almost every other would-be Drug War reformer on the planet
• How the Drug War Killed Amy Winehouse
• The problem with Modern Drug Reform Efforts - an open letter to Professors Peter Reuter and Alex Stevens
• Black Lives Don't Matter - in 'The Runner' by Jason Chase
• Blowing Up Arkansas - or Postponing Armageddon with Empathogenic Drugs
• Speaking Truth to Academia - my unanswered question for Philosopher Patrick Grim
• How the Drug War Makes Americans Stupid
• Reddit: the Home Page for Grade-Schoolers
• Kevin Sabet and other Philosophically Challenged Prohibitionists
• Drug War Bait and Switch - How the DEA takes our eyes off the prize by conflating coca with cocaine and opium with fentanyl
• Hey, You, Get Off Of My Creed! - how the drug war bans my religion
• The Handicapped NEED Crutches - on the anti-patient morality of the drug war

2021

• The Drug War Cure for Covid - response to Esther Landhuis' story in Science News
• Why the Drugs Reddit should not exist
• How the Drug War gave the 2016 election to Donald Trump
• Predictive Policing in the Age of the Drug War - open letter to computer scientist George Mohler
• El Chapo Crappo
• Troy Ange and Zane Kaleem Get It (almost) - in their article 'We Must Legalize Opioids Now'
• Libertarians as Closet Christian Scientists
• Listening to the Drug War
• In Response to Laurence Vance
• Nietzsche and the Drug War
• Open Letter to Variety Critic Owen Glieberman - regarding his Drug War-biased review of the movie 'Four Good Days'
• Penn State Patsies for the Drug War
• Scientism and America's Drug War hypocrisy
• How the Drug War Blinds us to Godsend Medicine
• Christian Science Rehab - aka the Twelve Step Group
• The Christian Science SWAT Teams of the Drug War
• Join Philosophers Against the Drug War
• How the Drug War Banned my Religion
• Not Using is Always Safer?
• Open letter to Professor Troy Glover at Waterloo University - in response to his paper at Academia.edu entitled 'Regulating the Rave Scene'
• Another Academic Toes the Drug Warrior Line - in response to the paper entitled LSD, Ecstasy and the Music of Politics by AV Satish Chandra
• Capitalism and the Drug War
• Self-help nonsense in the age of the Drug War
• America's Obsession with Fascist Drug War Movies
• Drugs: the great American scapegoat - for all social ills
• How Ecstasy could end mass shootings
• Vice and The 'One Strike You're Out' Fallacy
• Why the Drug War is far worse than a failure
• How Psychiatry and the Drug War turned me into an eternal patient - and what we should do about that
• America's Puritan Obsession with Sobriety
• Enough Drug War Propaganda Movies Already - review of the movie Du Zhan, aka Drug War
• Taking the Drug War for Granted
• The Philosophical Idiocy of the Drug War
• COPS: TV Show for Racist Drug Warriors
• Childish Drug Warriors

2020

• Why the Drug War is Worse than a Religion
• America's Anti-scientific Standards for Psychotherapeutic Medicine
• The Drug War as a Greek Tragedy
• Electroshock Therapy and the Drug War - Why ECT is the last resort of drug warrior scoundrels
• Using Opium to Fight Depression - on replacing psychiatry with pharmacologically savvy shamanism
• How the Atlantic Supports the Drug War - a letter to the Atlantic editors
• I asked 100 American philosophers what they thought about the Drug War - Every one of them took the fifth
• What You Can Do - To End America's Christian Science War on Plant Medicine
• Saying Yes to Drugs - and no to violence
• America's Juvenile Attitude Toward Drugs
• The word 'drugs' is a political term
• Psst! You have been bamboozled by America's Drug War - (Yes, you!)
• Dirty Minded Drug Warriors
• PROTEST DRUG TESTING NOW! - fight back against the extrajudicial enforcement of Christian Science Sharia
• The Philosophy of Drug Use - why celebrities tend to use 'drugs'
• How The Drug War Killed Andy Gibb
• How Logic-Challenged Journalists Support the Drug War
• Why the Holocaust Museum must denounce the Drug War - an open letter to the UHMM in Washington, DC
• The Great Philosophical Problem of Our Time
• Why America is Hung Up on Drugs
• Drug War Ideology:<BR>the modern superstition
• The Drug War Board Game
• Open Letter to Erowid - about a misleading 2018 article by Karolina Zieba
• Heroin versus Alcohol - an open letter to Professor Steven Gimbel of Gettysburg College
• What Obama got wrong about drugs
• How the Drug War turned me into an eternal patient
• How Cocaine could have helped me
• Marijuana Critics Just Don't Get It - It's the criminalization, stupid!
• MDMA for Psychotherapy - open letter to researcher Michael Mithoefer, MD
• Pissed off about Drug Testing
• How the Monticello Foundation betrayed Jefferson's Legacy in 1987 - open letter to the 'Sites of Conscience' website
• Open Letter to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• Addicted to Addiction - in Drug War USA
• How the Drug War killed Leah Betts - and ended the peaceful rave scene
• Grandmaster Flash: Drug War Collaborator - Parsing the song 'White Lines' for drug war propaganda
• The Drugs Reddit just doesn't get it
• Five Ways that the drug war causes the problems that it claims to solve
• The Worst thing about the Drug War
• The Drug War Virus at the Institute of Art and Ideas - how IAI speakers limit their ideas to those that conform with drug war ideology
• Ten Reasons why the Drug War is Nonsense - well, actually 18 reasons and counting
• There is no drug problem - It is an invention of politicians to take our minds off of real problems
• 10 Idiots who helped spread drug war propaganda on Listverse - in response to the listverse article entitled 10 historical figures who were dependent on opium
• Silence equals Death in America's Drug War
• Bamboozled Botanists fall for drug war propaganda - at the University of Hawaii - Manoa
• How the drug war promotes drug abuse
• Cop shows as drug war propaganda - How the TV cop show genre promulgates drug warrior lies about mother nature's plant medicines
• Open Letter to Congressman Ben Cline, asking him to abolish the criminal DEA
• Why the Drug War is Christian Science Sharia
• Good Chemistry is a good Covid read - Though the author is showing symptoms of the Drug War Virus
• There are no such things as drugs - the post that got me banned for life from the DRUGS subReddit
• Defund the DEA - in response to a black DEA agent's complaints about agency bias
• Why the Drug War is a Godsend for Conservatives
• The Racist Drug War killed George Floyd
• Drug War Copaganda - How cop shows reinforce drug warrior lies about Mother Nature's plants
• So, Your Faith Votes? - Yes, and it also demonizes mother nature's plants and violates the natural law upon which America was founded
• Replacing Psychiatry with Pharmacologically Savvy Shamanism - The post that got me banned for life from the Reddit Psychiatry group
• In Praise of Doctor Feelgood - Why psychiatry must become pharmacologically informed shamanism
• Drug Warrior Lies on the Internet Movie Database - Drug War propaganda in the movie summary for The Other Side of the Mirror
• End the Drug War Now - an open letter to American Senators in Washington, D.C.
• Six Reasons Why Americans Are Bamboozled by the Drug War - showing why philosophy still matters and why its absence empowers tyrants
• Sending Out an SOS - For Sentara to stop disempowering the victims of the psychiatric pill mill
• The Whistle Blower who NOBODY wants to hear - How the drug war turned me into an eternal patient… and why nobody cares
• Comedian Adderall Zoloft Riffs on the Drug War - the only comedian whose stand-up routine is listed as Schedule One by the DEA
• Unscientific American - How the authors at Scientific American self-censor their articles in deference to America's Drug War
• In the Realm of Hungry Drug Warriors - How the Drug War has blinded Gabor Maté to the great addiction crisis of our time
• Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe - Drug Warrior censorship at work in American classrooms
• Without Philosophy, Science becomes Scientism
• America's Invisible Addiction Crisis - And what it tells us about drug war hypocrisy
• Don't Worry, Be Satisfied - the feeble ambitions of modern psychiatry
• America's Blind Spot - Open Letter to Jospeh Koterski
• America's Great Anti-Depressant Scam
• How Fretting Drug Warriors Block Medical Progress - while causing inner-city violence and creating drug cartels around the world
• A Goliath that even David is afraid of - The ongoing failure of drug reformers to attack the DEA
• How to Unite Drug War Opponents of all Ethnicities - Open letter to Sean McAllister, drug policy reform lawyer
• The Church of the Most Holy and Righteous Drug War
• The War on Plants - The new American Conquistadores: using flame throwers to keep the world safe for Big Liquor
• The Joy of Drug Testing
• The Depressing Truth About SSRIs - why psychedelic therapy must REPLACE modern psychiatry rather than simply complement it
• The DEA: Poisoning Americans since 1973
• In Praise of Drug Dealers - replacing the modern barbaric treatment of so-called addicts with pharmacologically informed shamanism
• The Drug War as a Make-Work Program for Law Enforcement
• How the Drug War Punishes the Elderly
• The DEA's War on Alzheimer's Research - and how philosophers completely ignore the great philosophical problem of our times
• The Educational Use of Psychoactive Plants - Music Appreciation Class in the Year 2120
• Virus Update - Keeping track of the dreaded Drug War Virus
• The Totally Unspoken Truth About Drugs
• Alternative Medicine as a Drug War Creation - a philosophical review of The Quantum Doctor by Amit Goswami
• Surprise Drug Test! - No sharing answers -- or urine!
• Drug Warriors Fiddle while Rome Gets Nuked
• Open Letter to Gabrielle Glaser - author of 'The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous'
• The Myth of the Addictive Personality
• Glenn Close but no cigar - Four Good Days full of drug war propaganda
• Clueless Philosophers - Rationality self-destructs in the face of authoritarian abuse of power
• The American Stasi - putting Americans in their place since 1973
• Calling All Philosophers - Stop counting angels on a pin and speak up against the drug war
• What We Mean When We Say 'Drugs' - How the drug war is a creation of language
• How the DEA determines if a religion is true - after two millennia of disagreement on that subject among philosophers and theologians
• President Calls for Executing Drug Dealers - Herding minorities into overcrowded prisons no longer enough for booze-swilling Drug Warriors
• Self-Censorship in the Age of the Drug War
• Addicted to Ignorance - problems with the 'no pain, no gain' school of de-tox therapy
• Open Letter to the Virginia Legislature - on behalf of my 92-year-old mother
• American Sharia - the drug war as Christian Science
• Letter to Lamar Alexander - written upon the acquittal of Donald Trump
• There is no such thing as DRUGS - there are just substances that, like anything else, can be used and misused
• Is Rick Doblin Running with the Devil? - The drawbacks of collaborating with a corrupt system
• The Therapeutic Value of Anticipation - towards a realistic psychology of substance use
• John Locke on Drugs
• Rationality Uber Alles - the link between the drug war and the western world's scientistic contempt for human emotions
• Tune In, Turn On, Opt Out - Why fans of psychedelic medicine should just say no to Surveillance Capitalism
• Urine Testers Needed - must be willing and able to ignore the US Constitution
• There is a Specter Haunting Science - the specter of the Drug War
• Torture 101 at DEA University - prerequisite: Subverting the U.S. Constitution
• Hypocritical America Embraces Drug War Fascism - a warning to any remaining friends of freedom

2019

• Campfire Stories about America's Drug War - live from Lake Rights-Be-Gone
• Depressed? Here's why! - Exposing the anti-patient drug-war lobby in Washington
• The Drug War is a War on Patients - my letter to Republican senators of the 116th U.S. Congress
• DEA Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity
• Speaking Truth to Big Pharma - an open letter to the Heffter Research Institute
• Lock 'em up! Lock 'em up! - you want a drug war, we'll give you a drug war
• What if Arthur Schopenhauer Had Used DMT? - Psychotropic plants as a cure for modern pessimism
• Euthanasia in the Age of the Drug War - doctors can now kill patients but they can't make them feel better
• Unscientific American: the hypocritical materialism of Elon Musk - how sci-fi nerds ignore the healing power of Mother Nature
• Se Llama Mushrooms - Live from the DEA Lounge!
• In Praise of Augustus Bedloe
• Let's burn some plants!
• Plants Divine, All Plants Excelling
• Harold and Kumar Support the Drug War
• How Variety and its film critics support drug war fascism
• Running with the torture loving DEA
• Common Nonsense from Common Sense Media - So-called media watchdog scorns dirty words only, not dirty wars
• Open Letter to Addiction Specialist Gabor Mate - ending the torture-friendly 12-step programs
• The REAL Lesson of the Opium Wars
• Running with the DEA -- er, I mean the Devil - Review of Running with the Devil, starring Nicolas Cage, Laurence Fishburne and Natalie Reyes
• How Drug Warriors Steal American Elections
• A Drug Warrior in our Midst
• Review of When Plants Dream
• Addicted to Christianity
• It's the Psychedelics, Stupid!
• Response to: 95% of Americans Favor Legalizing Drugs - Reddit post on Libertarian page: 95% of American Favor Legalizing Drugs
• Thought Crimes Blotter
• Time to Replace Psychiatrists with Shamans
• Pity the Time Traveler - aka Fahrenheit 452
• Just Say Yes to Mother Nature's Pharmacy
• Drug Laws as the Punishment of 'Pre-Crime'
• The Politically Incorrect Cure for the Common Cold
• The Mental Health Survey that psychiatrists don't want you to take
• How the Atlantic Supports the Drug War Part II
• Seven Ways that Liberals are Confused by the Drug War - featuring the dangerously misinformed viewpoints of the Atlantic's Graeme Wood
• Marci Hamilton Equates Drug Use with Child Abuse
• There's nothing complicated about it -- legalize Mother Nature's plants now!
• Replacing 12-Step Programs with Shamanic Healing
• Eight Reasons to End Drug Testing
• This is your brain on Neuralink
• America's biggest drug pusher: The American Psychiatric Association:
• This is your brain on Drug War propaganda
• Why Clinton Was Wrong about Drugs
• Mycologists as DEA Collaborators
• Addiction Therapy in the Year 2100
• The Hypocrisy of the Gun-Owning Drug Warrior
• This is your brain on Effexor
• Drugging Our Kids on Behalf of Eli Lilly
• The Philosophy of Getting High
• How Americans Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Drug War
• Fifty Years of Bogus Articles about Creativity
• The Drug War = Christian Science
• The Drug War as Religion
• Americans have the right to pursue happiness but not to attain it
• The Drug War and Electroshock Therapy
• Put the DEA on Trial - for crimes against humanity
• Puritanical Assumptions about Drug Use in the Entertainment Field
• Why Hollywood Owes Richard Nixon an Oscar
• Why American Drug Policy is Insane
• In Praise of Thomas Szasz
• The real reason for depression in America
• Screw You, Francis Burton Harrison
• Colorado plane crash caused by milk!

2018

• Dragnet meets the Drug War - Just the propaganda, ma'am. Just the propaganda.