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A Dope Comedy Routine About Drugs

by Brian Ballard Quass, the Drug War Philosopher

November 5, 2023



Enjoy this satirical sendup of America's laughable attitude toward drugs. (Click the audio link above!)


MOTHER: Where are you off to so fast, sweetie?

SON: There's a Dare rally at the Capitol. I'm going down there to just say no to drugs.

MOTHER: Did you remember to take your meds?

SON: Yes, Mom. I popped the whole batch of them on my way through the kitchen.

MOTHER: Careful, dear. You're going to spill that Red Bull you're holding.

SON: Oh, I almost forgot. I was hoping to pick up some bush beer for Dad's upcoming party on my way back. Can you spot me a 20?


A four-panel comic strip. PANEL 1: the cartoon title, That Nutty Drug War! PANEL 2: Son: 'I'm on my way to the Just Say No Rally' PANEL 3: Mom: 'Did you remember to take your meds?' PANEL 4: Son: 'Oh, yeah, thanks for reminding me!'
Americans claim to hate drugs, and yet 1 in 4 American women are dependent on Big Pharma drugs for life, and we consider them to be good patients!




MOTHER: Only if you'll pick up a box of Virginia Slims for me.

SON: In that case, you better give me your credit card. I don't think it's safe for me to carry all that money around at night.

MOTHER: Here you are, you dope.

SON: Dope? Dope? I just say no to dope, remember?

MOTHER: Touché. Oh, and congratulations, Joey.

SON: For what, Mom?

MOTHER: I heard you passed your urine test to work at the local ABC store.

SON: What can I say? Jesus himself could not have had more impeccable urine than yours truly.

MOTHER: I'm proud of you, Joey.

SON: Oh, stop it, Mom.

MOTHER: Now, have a good time at the Dare rally.

SON: I just hope I don't run into Derek.

MOTHER: Why don't you want to see Derek? I thought he was your best drug-free friend.

SON: He is, but...

MOTHER: What?

SON: He and I had a falling out about American drug policy.

MOTHER: Really? What happened?

SON: Well, he agrees with Los Angeles Police Chief Darryl Gates that drug users should be taken out and shot.

MOTHER: Sounds like a reasonable point of view to me.

SON: Whereas I think William Bennett had the right idea when he said that drug users should be beheaded instead.

MOTHER: Well now, I think that's a topic upon which reasonable people can disagree.

SON: I'm off.

MOTHER: Oh, and we're all out of coffee. And Tylenol now that I think of it.

SON: Mom.

MOTHER: Oh, and if the pharmacy is still open, your sister needs her pills for depression, anxiety, and ADHD.

SON: I tell you what, Mom. Why don't I just bring back the entire store?

MOTHER: Don't be such a dope.

SON: Dope? Dope.

MOTHER: I know, I know. You don't do dope.








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Drug Prohibition Downside #1,529: aviation accidents caused by pilots who failed to use mind-sharpening drugs to improve their situational awareness. (See, for instance, Comair flight 5191)

Musk and co. want to make us more robot-like with AI, when they should be trying to make us more human-like with sacred medicine. Only humans can gain creativity from plant medicine. All AI can do is harvest the knowledge that eventually results from that creativity.

Americans heap hypocritical praise on Walt Whitman. What they don't realize is that many of us could be "Walt Whitman for a Day" with the wise use of psychoactive drugs. To the properly predisposed, morphine gives a DEEP appreciation of Mother Nature.

When is the Holocaust Museum going to recognize that the Drug War has Nazified American life? Probably, on the same day that the Jefferson Foundation finally admits to having sold out Jefferson by inviting the DEA onto his estate in 1987 to confiscate his poppy plants.

There are plenty of "prima facie" reasons for believing that we could eliminate most problems with drug and alcohol withdrawal by chemically aided sleep cures combined with using "drugs" to fight "drugs." But drug warriors don't want a fix, they WANT drug use to be a problem.

Anyone who has read Pihkal by Alexander Shulgin knows that the drug warriors have it exactly backwards. Drugs are our friends. We need to find safe ways to use them to improve ourselves psychologically, spiritually and mentally.

Drug warriors do not want to end "addiction": it's their golden goose. They use the threat of addiction to scare us into giving up our democratic freedoms, like that once supplied by the 4th amendment.

In America, they save the depressed from cocaine and opium by turning them into patients for life with dependence-causing "meds." Now 30-year-old doctors get to treat 67-year-olds like children, with new visits every damn three months.

The drug war is a slow-motion coup against democracy.

Someone needs to create a group called Drug Warriors Anonymous, a place where Americans can go to discuss their right to mind and mood medicine and to discuss the many ways in which our society trashes godsend medicines.


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