There is more hope in dope than there is in the psychiatric pill mill.
Chesterton might as well have been speaking about the word 'addiction' when he wrote the following: "It is useless to have exact figures if they are exact figures about an inexact phrase."
Someday the world will realize that Freud's real achievement was his discovery of the depression-busting power of cocaine.
Had the DEA been active in the Punjab and 1500 BCE, there would be no Hindu religion today.
Drug Warriors will publicize all sorts of drug use -- but they will never publicize sane and positive drug use. Drug Warrior dogma holds that such use is impossible -- and, indeed, the drug war does all it can to turn that prejudice into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
"In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the peyote tells us where to find it." --Antonin Arnaud
To understand why the western world is blind to the benefits of "drugs," read "The Concept of Nature" by Whitehead. He unveils the scientific schizophrenia of the west, according to which the "real" world is invisible to us while our perceptions are mere "secondary" qualities.
Classic prohibitionist gaslighting, telling me that "drugs" is a neutral term. What planet are they living on?
Most enemies of inner-city gun violence refuse to protest against the drug prohibition which caused the violence in the first place.
The FDA uses reductive materialism to justify and normalize the views of Cortes and Pizarro with respect to entheogenic medicine.
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