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Corner on Coca!

collect nature's godsend medicines while protesting the War on Drugs!

by Brian Ballard Quass, the Drug War Philosopher

April 11, 2023



Corner 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 1 estate and confiscated his poppy plants!

2025 Update

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

picture of clock metaphorically suggesting a follow-up




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.

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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 2 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.




Notes:

1: The Dark Side of the Monticello Foundation DWP (up)
2: Why Americans Prefer Suicide to Drug Use DWP (up)








Ten Tweets

against the hateful war on US




If I want to use the kind of drugs that have inspired entire religions, fight depression, or follow up on the research of William James into altered states, I should not have to live in fear of the DEA crashing down my door and shouting: "GO! GO! GO!"

The FDA will be accepting comments through September 20th on the subject of ways to fight PTSD. PTSD@reaganudall.org Ask them why they support brain-damaging shock therapy but won't approve drugs like MDMA that could make ECT unnecessary.

"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

Laughing gas inspired the philosophy of William James. Outlawing N20 is outlawing academic freedom. Laughing gas should be available for the suicidal. Drug prohibition is not a victimless crime.

Laughing gas is the substance that gave William James his philosophy of reality. He concluded from its use that what we perceive is just a fraction of reality writ large. Yet his alma mater (Harvard) does not even MENTION laughing gas in their bio of the man.

The Petpedia website says that "German Shepherds need to have challenging jobs such as searching for drugs." How about searching for prohibitionists instead?

The scheduling system is a huge lie designed to give an aura of "science" to America's colonialist disdain for indigenous medicines, from opium, to coca, to shrooms.

The reasons that people use drugs are psychologically obvious. Academics gaslight us on this topic and invent new diseases to explain away our desire to live large.

This is why "rock stars" use drugs: not just for performance anxiety (which, BTW, is a completely UNDERSTANDABLE reason for drug use), but because they want to fully experience the music, even tho' they may be currently short on money and being hassled by creditors, etc.

Scientists are censored as to what they can study thanks to drug law. Instead of protesting that outrage, they lend a false scientific veneer to those laws via their materialist obsession with reductionism, which blinds them to the obvious godsend effects of outlawed substances.


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