Enjoy the Exciting Adventures of DEA Agent Fallon, as he arrests minorities, violates religious liberties, and confiscates entire houses -- all in order to crack down on evil, bad, rotten, lousy DRUGGGS! (except for alcohol, of course, and antidepressants and caffeine and aspirin and coffee and Red Bull... full list of exceptions available for SASE and $1.00)
Click the comic strip below for a full-sized version FALLON OF THE DEA!!!
We should place prohibitionists on trial for destroying inner cities.
There are times when it is clearly WRONG to deny kids drugs (whatever the law may say). If your child is obsessed with school massacres, he or she is an excellent candidate for using empathogenic meds ASAP -- or do we prefer even school shootings to drug use???
The so-called opiate crisis is really a drug prohibition crisis.
Imagine someone starting their book about antibiotics by saying that he's not trying to suggest that we actually use them. We should not have to apologize for being honest about drugs. If prohibitionists think that honesty is wrong, that's their problem.
One merely has to look at any issue of Psychology Today to see articles in which the author reckons without the Drug War, in which they pretend that banned substances do not exist and so fail to incorporate any topic-related insights that might otherwise come from user reports.
"Chemical means of peering into the contents of the inner mind have been universally prized as divine exordia in man’s quest for the beyond... before the coarseness of utilitarian minds reduced them to the status of 'dope'." -- Eric Hendrickson
I can think of no greater intrusion than to deny a person autonomy over how they think and feel in life. It is sort of a meta-intrusion, the mother of all anti-democratic intrusions.
AI is inherently plagiaristic technology. It tells us: "Hey, guys, look what I can do!" -- when it should really be saying, "Hey, guys, look how I stole all your data and repackaged it in such a way as to make it appear that I am the genius, not you!"
Well, today's Oregon vote scuttles any ideas I might have entertained about retiring in Oregon.
The drug war normalizes the disdainful and self-righteous attitude that Columbus and Pizarro had about drug use in the New World.
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