elow I am starting a collection of the comments that I post on other sites about drugs and drug use.
SITE: Reddit/GenZ
DATE POSTED: May 18, 2025
IN RESPONSE TO: Reddit post reading: "I hate how doing drugs is normalized" posted by Loud_Assistant472 1
With respect, you have been brainwashed your entire lifetime by Drug War censorship. You have never been allowed to see or read about the many positive uses for drugs.
The Hindu religion owes its existence to the use of a drug called Soma. Soma inspired and elated. This means that drug prohibition is the outlawing of religion -- of the religious impulse itself.
One in four American women take Big Pharma drugs every day of their life. Are you against THOSE drugs? Alcohol is a drug. Are you against THAT drug? Sugar is a drug. Caffeine is a drug. Jesus Christ himself had plenty of drugs in his earthly body, including DMT.
Drugs can stop people from committing suicide. Check out the drug-user reports in the book "Pihkal" by Alexander Shulgin. William James told us to use substances like laughing gas to understand reality. Yet drug prohibitionists have outlawed all such research. Drug prohibitionists are seeking to treat laughing gas like a "drug." In a sane world, we would give laughing gas kits to the suicidal, just as we now give epi pens to those with severe allergies.
The FDA will not approve of laughing gas for the depressed, but they actually ENCOURAGE the use of brain-damaging SHOCK therapy for the depressed. Something is terribly wrong with this picture.
CONCLUSION: America is all screwed up because of the harebrained ideology of the prohibitionists. Prohibition never ended in 1933. We just appeased the prohibitionists by letting them outlaw all of liquor's less dangerous competitors.
The problem is that we are normalizing drug prohibition by ignoring all of its negative consequences, including:
the outlawing of religion, the end of academic freedom, the disappearance of 60,000 Mexicans over the last two decades, the death of 67,000 Blacks in inner-city America because liquor and drug prohibition armed the 'hood to the teeth.
The Drug War even led to the election of Donald Trump by removing over a million minorities from the voting rolls. (But then, of course, that was the real point of the Drug War in the first place, to disempower minorities and get rid of American democracy and democratic norms of all kinds.)
Drug prohibition has placed the government in charge of pain relief. It has placed the government in charge of what substances we can have in our digestive systems. It has placed the government in charge of deciding how and how much we are allowed to think and feel in life.
Drug prohibition is therefore the biggest power grab by government in world history. It seeks to control how citizens are allowed to think about the world. It is a meta injustice.
It's time that we stopped normalizing drug prohibition.
Meanwhile, Americans need to grow up. Saying things like "Fentanyl kills!" makes as much sense as saying "Fire bad!" Both are attempts to make us fear dangerous substances rather than to learn how to use them as wisely as possible for the benefit of humanity.
Young people were not dying in the streets when opiates were legal in America. It took drug prohibition to accomplish that. How? By refusing to teach safe use, refusing to regulate product as to quantity and quality, and refusing to re-legalize the many opiate alternatives, like phenethylamines and laughing gas, etc.
SITE: UC Berkeley Center for the Study of Psychedelics
DATE POSTED: May 8, 2025
IN RESPONSE TO: "The potential of psychedelic medicine - A personal account"2
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 alone3. Liquor kills 178,000 a year in the US4. 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 Drugs5. Not the safety of the 67,000 minorities who have been killed by gun violence over the last ten years in America's inner cities6. 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 teeth7. 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 depressed8 than to let them use the kinds of drugs that have inspired entire religions, as Soma inspired the rishi of the Punjab in 1500 BCE9. 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.
The Drug War is the legally enforced triumph of human idiocy. We have rigged the deck so that our dunces can be right. The Drug War is a superstition. Indeed, it is THE modern superstition.
To oppose the Drug War philosophically, one has to highlight its connections to both materialism and the psychiatric pill mill. And that's a problem, because almost everyone is either a Drug Warrior, a materialist, and/or has a vested interest in the psychiatric pill mill.
America is insane: it makes liquor officially legal and then outlaws all the drugs that could help prevent and cure alcoholism.
It's an enigma: If I beat my depression by smoking opium nightly, I am a drug scumbag subject to immediate arrest. But if I do NOT "take my meds" every day of my life, I am a bad patient.
It also bothers me that gun fanatics support the drug war. If I have no rights to mother nature, then they have no rights to guns. If the Fourth Amendment can be ignored based on lies and ignorance, then so can the Second.
We deal with "drug" risks differently than any other risk. Aspirin kills thousands every year. The death rate from free climbing is huge. But it's only with "drug use" that we demand zero deaths (a policy which ironically causes far more deaths than necessary).
Attempts to improve one's mind and mood are not crimes. The attempt to stop people from doing so is the crime.
The drug war is a way for conservatives to keep America's eyes OFF the prize. The right-wing motto is, "Billions for law enforcement, but not one cent for social programs."
Scientists are responsible for endless incarcerations in America. Why? Because they fail to denounce the DEA lie that psychoactive substances have no positive medical uses. This is so obviously wrong that only an academic in an Ivory Tower could believe it.
In "The Book of the Damned," Charles Fort shows how science damns (i.e. excludes) facts that it cannot assimilate into a system of knowledge. Fort could never have guessed, however, how thoroughly science would eventually "damn" all positive facts about "drugs."
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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)
