NEIL: That's one small step for a man... one giant leap for the United States Department of Justice.WOMAN: People ask me, How can you be in favor of exterminating hippopotami? I take one look at my poor little white children and ask myself, How could I not?
ANNOUNCER: The hippopotamus is the world's most deadly animal. It kills up to 3,000 people every year. Tell your representative to support the Tainy-Dipschitz bill to exterminate hippopotami worldwide.
WOMAN: How could I not?
The drug war is a scare campaign to teach us to distrust mother nature and to rely on pharmaceuticals instead.
Folks point to the seemingly endless drugs that can be synthesized today and say it's a reason for prohibition. To the contrary, it's the reason why prohibition is madness. It results in an endless game of militaristic whack-a-mole at the expense of democratic freedoms.
Proof that materialism is wrong is "in the pudding." It is why scientists are not calling for the use of laughing gas and MDMA by the suicidal. Because they refuse to recognize anything that's obvious. They want their cures to be demonstrated under a microscope.
We would never have even heard of Freud except for cocaine. How many geniuses is America stifling even as we speak thanks to the war on mind improving medicines?
Well, today's Oregon vote scuttles any ideas I might have entertained about retiring in Oregon.
The massive use of plea deals lets prosecutors threaten drug suspects into giving up their rights to a fair trial.
It's no wonder that folks blame drugs. Carl Hart is the first American scientist to openly say in a published book that even the so-called "hard" drugs can be used wisely. That's info that the drug warriors have always tried to keep from us.
Think you can handle a horse? So did Christopher Reeves. The fact is, NOBODY can handle a horse. This message brought to you by the Partnership for a Death Free America.
When people tell us there's nothing to be gained from using mind-improving drugs, they are embarrassing themselves. Users benefit from such drugs precisely to the extent that they are educated and open-minded. Loudmouth abstainers are telling us that they lack these traits.
What are drug dealers doing, after all? They are merely selling substances that people want and have always had a right to, until racist politicians came along and decided government had the right to ration out pain relief and mystical experience.
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