collect nature's godsend medicines while protesting the War on Drugs!
by Ballard Quass, the Drug War Philosopher
April 11, 2023
orner on Coca is more than a fun game: it's a creative new way to protest America's hateful War on Drugs, which has outlawed godsend medicines in violation of Natural Law. Just ask Thomas Jefferson, who rolled over in his grave back in 1987 when the DEA stomped onto his Monticello estate and confiscated his poppy plants!
The game is as easy as stomping down the doors of minorities and poor people or shooting socialists in Central America under the pretense of "fighting drugs." In fact, if you've played the game called Pit, you already know the rules. There are six different sets of cards, each featuring a different godsend of mother nature: cannabis, coca, peyote, poppies, shrooms and ibogaine. (For those who don't know, ibogaine is the dual-purpose African drug that helps folks talk with their ancestors while also curing them of any unwanted addictions!)
Game is in the design phase!
Watch this Space
Game available in Spring 2023
Author's Follow-up: November 18, 2023
Well, it's Summer 2023 now and the game in question has not yet materialized. [sigh]
What happened, you asked? Ask rather what DIDN'T happen. I mean, don't get me started! For I could a tale unfold whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy presumably young blood, make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, thy presumably knotted and combined locks to part, and each particular hair to stand on end -- kind of like those what-cha-call-'em quills on the fretful porpentine (whatever that is).
But I'll spare you the blood and guts. Suffice it to say that a poorly conceived and ambiguous Microsoft OneDrive icon on my PC led me to accidentally erase half of my hard drive six months ago. How was I to know that when I deleted files in my OneDrive FOLDER that I was simultaneously deleting the original versions of those files in OTHER folders???
But as Shakespeare was wont to say: omittance is no quittance.
So how about watching this space for another year or so -- say, checking back in July of 2024, inshallah.
I kid you not: the folder "OneDrive" is not to be messed with. You delete a file there and it is history. And could Microsoft help me? No. All the king's horses and all the king's techs could not put my hard drive back together again.
Author's Follow-up: April 3, 2025
It has been a year and a half since a deceptively designed One Drive interface caused me to erase half my hard drive, and with it the painstakingly designed assets for my Corner on Coca game. I could only salvage a handful of graphics, including the following mockup of the product's box.
I may as well be honest here and aver that my completion of this game is unlikely now barring a small miracle, such as the arrival of a forward-thinking venture capitalist at my door. When I debuted online 30 years ago, I thought such eventualities were highly probable occurrences, whereas today I would be stunned if I were to receive so much as an email of any kind, favorable or otherwise, with regard to any of my online efforts, let alone an offer of palpable assistance on this particular game. But then you can call me Onion Head. You can keep unraveling forever and one never seems to come to the end of my charming naivete. It's really quite precious, when you think about it.
But have no fear, you silent and anonymous supporter of mine who may or may not exist! I now plan to impose on my techie nephew for his help in learning C++, so that I can eventually make a virtual version of Corner on Coca -- and other games designed to bring the idiocy of drug prohibition front and center in the mind of the game-playing North American.
I picture a parody of the Game of Life. It will also be called LIFE... er... but with a sort of subtitle. The game will be called "LIFE... (in prison?)"
No, seriously, JB, you're gonna love it!
Here's the idea: you tool along in your plastic car toward the Pearly Gates, right? trying not to have your life ruined by unconstitutional and inhumane drug laws. But watch out for those LIFE cards, JB!
"Daughter commits suicide thanks to the outlawing of godsend substances that could have cheered her up instantly. Remove one pink child from your plastic car!"
And watch out for the Christian Science Heretic Card!
"Busybody lab techs discover traces of godsend medicines in your body. Return salary card to bank!"
May I digress for a moment? Who on earth decided that One Drive should imitate a regular drive precisely -- and yet be so designed that all delete operations applied to identically named files everywhere on your computer? That is obviously NOT how a normal drive behaves. Is it not incredibly easy to inadvertently erase files entirely in such a setup? There should be digital fireworks displayed every time one goes to erase a file on their One Drive: a full-screen display reading: "Warning: When you delete these files, they will be deleted EVERYWHERE!!!"
One Drive is a sort of anti-backup program -- at least that is the way that it functioned in 2023 when one single delete operation in one directory on my computer (which happened to be the One Drive directory) deleted files in multiple directories across my computer -- completely removing those files forever and without hope of recovery.
The Petpedia website says that "German Shepherds need to have challenging jobs such as searching for drugs." How about searching for prohibitionists instead?
It's "convenient" for scientists that their "REAL" cures happen to be the ones that racist politicians will allow. Scientists thus normalize prohibition by pretending that outlawed substances have no therapeutic value. It's materialism collaborating with the drug war.
"If England [were to] revert to pre-war conditions, when any responsible person, by signing his name in a book, could buy drugs at a fair profit on cost price... the whole underground traffic would disappear like a bad dream." -- Aleister Crowley
NOW is the time for entheogens -- not (as Strassman and Pollan seem to think) at some future date when materialists have finally wrapped their minds around the potential usefulness of drugs that experientially teach compassion.
My local community store here in the sticks sells Trump "dollar bills" at the checkout counter. I don't know what's worse: a president encouraging insurrection or an electorate that does not see that as a problem.
I can't believe people. Somebody's telling me that "drugs" is not used problematically. It is CONSTANTLY used with a sneer in the voice when politicians want to diss somebody, as in, "Oh, they're in favor of DRUGS!!!" It's a political term as used today!
Kids should be taught in grade school that prohibition is wrong.
Even fans of sacred medicine have been brainwashed to believe that we do not know if such drugs "really" work: they want microscopic proof. But that's a western bias, used strategically by drug warriors to make the psychotropic drug approval process as glacial as possible.
Americans are far more fearful of psychoactive drugs than is warranted by either anecdote or history. We require 100% safety before we will re-legalize any "drug" -- which is a safety standard that we do not enforce for any other risky activity on earth.
I just asked New York Attorney General Letitia James how much she was getting paid to play Whack-a-Mole. I pointed out that the drug war created the gangs just as liquor prohibition created the Mafia.
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orner on Coca is more than a fun game: it's a creative new way to protest America's hateful War on Drugs, which has outlawed godsend medicines in violation of Natural Law. Just ask Thomas Jefferson, who rolled over in his grave back in 1987 when the DEA stomped onto his Monticello estate and confiscated his poppy plants!
You have been reading an article entitled, Corner on Coca!: collect nature's godsend medicines while protesting the War on Drugs!, published on April 11, 2023 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)
