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Drug War Dictionary

Find out why prohibition is wrong by definition

by Brian Ballard Quass, the Drug War Philosopher

December 23, 2025



Addiction Condition brought about by drug prohibition thanks to which users have limited choices and are not educated in the rules of safe drug use. This condition is aggravated by the Iron Law of Prohibition, which states that the outlawing of one drug leads to the sale of more potentially dangerous replacements on the black market1.

Drug A psychoactive substance of which racist and xenophobic politicians disapprove, chiefly because they associate its use with people whom they dislike. As opposed to "med" (which see).

Drug testing A blatant violation of Fourth Amendment rights designed to remove Christian Science heretics from the workforce. Note that this testing is not designed merely to flag impairment: instead it flags the mere trace of substances of which politicians disapprove and uses such findings as an excuse to remove the heretic from the American workforce, through a non-judicial process, without so much as a trial or even the filing of charges. This is cruel and unusual punishment, denying the "flagged" individual the right to earn a living2 3 4 5.

MDMA A substance that Drug Warriors hate because it brings about nothing but peace, love and understanding, which they cannot abide6 7.

Med A psychoactive substance of which politicians approve because it turns users into wards of the healthcare state without empowering them to live large8.

Opioid Use Disorder The correct name for this condition is actually Prohibition Disorder, but our government is in denial. Our country does everything it can to make drug use as dangerous as possible and then turns around and blames the victim when they have issues with use: nay, they invent entire new diseases to account for the problems that they themselves are causing with their drug prohibition, their refusal to educate, and their refusal to regulate product as to dosage and quality9 10 11.

Self-censorship Practiced by almost all American authors, especially in the non-fiction genre. This is why one can enter an American library and search in vain for books that speak positively of time-honored panaceas like coca and opium12 13.

The DEA The American Gestapo. The DEA uses America's ignorant terror of psychoactive medicines as an excuse to wreck houses, confiscate property and throw otherwise law-abiding citizens in jail14 15 16.









Notes for essay entitled Drug War Dictionary: Find out why prohibition is wrong by definition:

1: Iron Law of Prohibition Made Drugs Dangerous McKenna, Stacey, R Street, 2024 (up)
2: Drug Testing and the Christian Science Inquisition DWP (up)
3: Drug Testing Fascism DWP (up)
4: Pissed off about Drug Testing DWP (up)
5: Eight Reasons to End Drug Testing DWP (up)
6: How the Drug War killed Leah Betts DWP (up)
7: The Drug War and Armageddon DWP (up)
8: Meds fry the brain, not drugs DWP (up)
9: Medications for so-called 'opioid-use disorder' are legion: it's just that we have outlawed them all DWP (up)
10: Bad Guy to the Rescue in the Opioid Crisis DWP (up)
11: Drug War Hysteria and the Opioid Crisis DWP (up)
12: Self-Censorship in the Age of the Drug War DWP (up)
13: How the Drug War Censors Free Speech DWP (up)
14: The American Gestapo DWP (up)
15: Drug Warriors and Their Prey: From Police Power to Police State Miller, Richard Lawrence, Bloomsbury Academic, New York, 1996 (up)
16: Drug Warriors and their Prey DWP (up)




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If drug war logic made sense, we would outlaw endless things in addition to drugs. Because the drug war says that it's all worth it if we can save just one life -- which is generally the life of a white suburban young person, btw.

In a sane world, we would learn to strategically fight drugs with drugs.

The drug war is a meta-injustice. It does not just limit what you're allowed to think, it limits how and how much you are allowed to think.

A law proposed in Colorado in February 2024 would have criminalized positive talk about drugs online. What? The world is on the brink of nuclear war because of hate-driven politics, and I can be arrested for singing the praises of empathogens?

All sites about drugs are propaganda in the age of the Drug War, just as all talk about Jewish criminals was propaganda during WWII. Drugs can have downsides and Jews may be criminals, but to focus only on those facts in a time of war turns everything you say into propaganda.

Americans love to blame drugs for all their problems. Young people were not dying in the streets when opiates were legal. The prohibition mindset is the problem, not drugs.

Materialists are always trying to outdo each other in describing the insignificance of humankind. Crick at least said we were "a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules." Musk downsizes us further to one single microbe. He wins!

"Dope Sick"? "Prohibition Sick" is more like it. The very term "dope" connotes imperialism, racism and xenophobia, given that all tribal cultures have used "drugs" for various purposes. "Dope? Junk?" It's hard to imagine a more intolerant, dismissive and judgmental terminology.

"The Legislature deliberately determines to distrust the very people who are legally responsible for the physical well-being of the nation, and puts them under the thumb of the police, as if they were potential criminals." -- Aleister Crowley on drug laws

Drug Warriors will publicize all sorts of drug use -- but they will never publicize sane and positive drug use. Drug Warrior dogma holds that such use is impossible -- and, indeed, the drug war does all it can to turn that prejudice into a self-fulfilling prophecy.


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