by Freddie and the Fearmongers, lyrics by the Drug War Philosopher, music with just a tiny bit of help from AI
CHORUS: Drugs Kill, Fire Bad!
It's the dumbest mindset we've ever had,
Like a caveman or brainless undergrad,
We say Drugs Kill, Fire Bad!
VERSE 1: Had a job at the local hardware,
Till they told me I had to pee,
To reveal if ever I had,
Used a substance that could have helped me,
Could have helped me,
Could have helped me!
CHORUS: Drugs Kill, Fire Bad!
It's the dumbest mindset we've ever had,
Like a caveman or brainless undergrad,
We say Drugs Kill, Fire Bad!
(Fools keep tellin' me that)
Drugs Kill, Fire Bad!
It's the dumbest mindset we've ever had,
Like a caveman or brainless undergrad,
We say Drugs Kill, Fire Bad!
VERSE 2: Had a job at the local food store,
Till they told me I had to piss,
To find out if ever I had,
Used a substance that racists diss,
That racists diss,
That our racist politicians diss!
The "acceptable risk" for psychoactive drugs can only be decided by the user, based on what they prioritize in life. Science just assumes that all users should want to live forever, self-fulfilled or not.
Someday, the First Lady or Man will tell kids to "just say no to prohibition." Kids who refuse will be required to watch hours' worth of films depicting gun violence, banned religions, civil wars, and adults committing suicide for want of medicine that grows at their very feet.
We need a few brave folk to "act up" by shouting "It's the drug war!" whenever folks are discussing Mexican violence or inner city shootings. The media treat both topics as if the violence is inexplicable! We can't learn from mistakes if we're in denial.
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!
Who would have thought back in 1776 that Americans would eventually have to petition their government for the right to even possess a damn mushroom. The Drug War has destroyed America.
Mariani Wine is the real McCoy, with Bolivian coca leaves (tho' not with cocaine, as Wikipedia says). I'll be writing more about my experience with it soon. I was impressed. It's the same drink "on which" HG Wells and Jules Verne wrote their stories.
It's just plain totalitarian nonsense to outlaw mother nature and to outlaw moods and mental states thru drug law. These truths can't be said enough by us "little people" because the people in power are simply not saying them.
Alexander Shulgin is a typical westerner when he speaks about cocaine. He moralizes about the drug, telling us that it does not give him "real" power. But so what? Does coffee give him "real" power? Coke helps some, others not. Stop holding it to this weird metaphysical standard.
To say that taking SSRIs daily is better than using opium daily is a value judgement, not a scientific one.
In America, they save the depressed from cocaine and opium by turning them into patients for life with dependence-causing "meds." Now 30-year-old doctors get to treat 67-year-olds like children, with new visits every damn three months.
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