elow I am starting a collection of the comments that I post on other sites about drugs and drug use.
SITE: UC Berkeley Center for the Study of Psychedelics1
DATE POSTED: May 8, 2025
This shutting down of psychedelic research was based on the following crazy and anti-scientific idea:
"If a drug can pose a danger for white American young people when used at one dose for one reason, it must not be used by anyone at any dose for any reason."
This idea is especially crazy when one considers that Drug Warriors refuse "on principle" to educate these young people about safe use. The Drug Warrior actually believes that ignorance is the best policy when it comes to drugs.
Meanwhile, the FDA approves of Big Pharma drugs whose published side effects include death itself. Aspirin kills 3,000 a year in the UK alone2. Liquor kills 178,000 a year in the US3. Clearly the outlawing of psychedelics is completely irrational given this backstory. And yet folks like Michael Pollan and Rick Strassman support drug prohibition. They claim to be interested in safety — but whose safety? Not the safety of the 60,000 who have been disappeared in Mexico over the last two decades thanks to the War on Drugs4. Not the safety of the 67,000 minorities who have been killed by gun violence over the last ten years in America's inner cities5. Not the safety of the folks who have to dangerously synthesize DMT with powerful chemicals because DMT has been outlawed. Not the safety of inner city kids like 15-year-old Niomi Russell who was killed in a drive-by shooting in 2024 in Washington, D.C., thanks to the fact that drug prohibition had armed inner city neighborhoods to the teeth6. Not the safety of the many young people who use alcohol only because we have outlawed almost all the obvious alternatives. Not the safety of the suicidal who kill themselves because we have outlawed all substances that inspire and elate.
The FDA also approves of shock therapy, by the way. They would rather that we knowingly damage the brains of the depressed7 than to let them use the kinds of drugs that have inspired entire religions, as Soma inspired the rishi of the Punjab in 1500 BCE8. This results in part from the materialist approach to mood medicine, which scorns anecdote, history and common sense and looks instead for "cures" under a microscope. The goal is not really to help the patient but rather to prove the relevance of materialist science in the realm of mind and mood medicine. It was, however, a category error to place scientists in charge of such things. It is like placing Dr. Spock of Star Trek in charge of a study about the benefits of hugging. He just would not "get it." Neither do materialist scientists "get it" when it comes to holistic-acting drugs like psychedelics.*
I am talking here of scientists qua scientists, of course. There are many scientists who do indeed "get it." The point is that they "get it" in spite of their vocational indoctrination in materialist principles, not because of those principles.
Billboards reading "Fentanyl kills" are horrible because they encourage the creation of racist legislation that outlaws all godsend uses of opiates. Kids in hospice in India go without morphine because of America's superstitious fear of opiates.
The problem for alcoholics is that alcohol decreases rationality in proportion as it provides the desired self-transcendence. Outlawed drugs can provide self-transcendence with INCREASED rationality and be far more likely to keep the problem drinker off booze than abstinence.
When Americans "obtain their majority" and wish to partake of drugs safely, they should be paired with older adults who have done just that. Instead, we introduce them to "drug abusers" in prerecorded morality plays to reinforce our biased notions that drug use is wrong.
Wonder how America got to the point where we let the Executive Branch arrest judges? Look no further than the Drug War, which, since the 1970s, has demonized Constitutional protections as impediments to justice.
These are just simple psychological truths that drug war ideology is designed to hide from sight. Doctors tell us that "drugs" are only useful when created by Big Pharma, chosen by doctors, and authorized by folks who have spent thousands on medical school. (Lies, lies, lies.)
"I can take this drug that inspires me and makes me compassionate and teaches me to love nature in its byzantine complexity, or I can take Prozac which makes me unable to cry at my parents' funeral. Hmm. Which shall it be?" Only a mad person in a mad world would choose SSRIs.
Just saw a People's magazine article with the headline: "JUSTICE FOR MATTHEW PERRY."
If there was true justice, their editorial staff would be in jail for promoting user ignorance and a contaminated drug supply.
It's the prohibition, stupid!!!
Mad in America publishes stories of folks who are disillusioned with antidepressants, but they won't publish mine, because I find mushrooms useful. They only want stories about cold turkey and jogging, or nutrition, or meditation.
What attracts me about "drug dealers" is that they are NOT interested in prying into my private life. What a relief! With psychiatry, you are probed for pathological behavior on every office visit. You are a child. To the "drug dealer," I am an adult at least.
Getting off antidepressants can make things worse for only one reason: because we have outlawed all the drugs that could help with the transition. Right now, getting off any drug basically means becoming a drug-free Christian Scientist. No wonder withdrawal is hard.
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elow I am starting a collection of the comments that I post on other sites about drugs and drug use.
You have been reading an article entitled, Comments about Drugs published on May 8, 2025 on AbolishTheDEA.com. For more information about America's disgraceful drug war, which is anti-patient, anti-minority, anti-scientific, anti-mother nature, imperialistic, the establishment of the Christian Science religion, a violation of the natural law upon which America was founded, and a childish and counterproductive way of looking at the world, one which causes all of the problems that it purports to solve, and then some, visit the drug war philosopher, at abolishTheDEA.com. (philosopher's bio; go to top of this page)
