And so anyone today can claim to be an expert on Freud without even knowing about his advocacy of cocaine for the depressed. Those who catch wind of such advocacy are merely informed by their politically correct professors that Freud's interest in cocaine was a mistake. No proof of this fact need be adduced. Such slander will be readily believed by students who have been brainwashed since childhood in the substance demonizing ideology of the War on Drugs. We see then that Freud is considered a hero in academia, not because he found a practical cure for depression, but rather because his theoretical musings about psychoanalysis have provided fodder for endless remunerative academic projects. The depressed may be as gloomy as ever, but the academics have been promoted to the role of experts when it comes to the parsing and mythologizing of the real-world manifestations of our distress.
It's as if a tribe of paleolithic cave dwellers were shivering in the cold, racking their brains for ways to keep warm, yet never even thinking about building a fire for that purpose, so thoroughly have they come to believe that fire is bad!
If the depressed patient laughs, that means nothing. Materialists have to see results under a microscopic or they will never sign off on a therapy.
The FDA is not qualified to tell us whether holistic medicines work. They hold such drugs to materialist standards and that's pharmacological colonialism.
If Americans cannot handle the truth about drugs, then there is something wrong with Americans, not with drugs.
If drug warriors were serious about saving lives, they'd outlaw guns, cars, and all pleasure trips to Mars.
Drug prohibition is superstitious idiocy.
It is based on the following crazy idea:
that a substance that can be misused by a white young person at one dose for one reason must not be used by anybody at any dose for any reason.
The whole drug war is based on the anti-American idea that the way to avoid problems is to lie and prevaricate and persuade people not to ask questions.
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.
Outlawing drugs is outlawing obvious therapies for Alzheimer's and autism patients, therapies based on common sense and not on the passion-free behaviorism of modern scientists.
The main form of drug war propaganda is censorship. That's why most Americans cannot imagine any positive uses for psychoactive substances, because the media and the government won't allow that.
If daily drug use and dependency are okay, then there's no logical or scientific reason why I can't smoke a nightly opium pipe.
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