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Fried Brains Over Easy: another Drug War Comedy Routine

live from the DEA Lounge

by Brian Ballard Quass, the Drug War Philosopher

April 9, 2025



Click the audio link above to listen to the latest comedy routine 1 live from the DEA Lounge, featuring Adderall Zoloft and Paxil Buspar!


ADDERALL: Welcome to the DEA Lounge. My name is Adderall Zoloft.

PAXIL: And I'm Paxil Buspar.

ADDERALL: And we are here tonight to encourage you to just say no to godsend medicines.

PAXIL: That's right, Adderall.

ADDERALL: Say, Paxil, I hear that a majority of psychiatrists would like to receive electroshock therapy if they ever became severely depressed.

PAXIL: You're kidding me. You mean that they would rather have their brains damaged than to use the kinds of medicines that have inspired entire religions?

ADDERALL: Apparently so, Paxil.

PAXIL: That is hard to believe after you've read quotes about ecstatic drug use in books like "Pihkal" by Alexander Shulgin.

ADDERALL: What quotes, Paxil?

PAXIL: Quotes like these, Adderall.


"Excellent feelings. Tremendous opening of insights and understanding. A real awakening."

"This feels marvelous, and a whole new way to be much more relaxed, accepting, being in the moment. No more axes to grind. I can be free."

"I felt an enriched emotional affect, a comfortable and good feeling, and easy sleeping, with colorful and important dreams."


ADDERALL: Yeah. And now let's listen to a quote from someone who has just had electroshock therapy.

"Er... um... I feel... eeee.... shh... I'm sorry, what was the question again?




ADDERALL: That's all for now. I'm Adderall Zoloft.

PAXIL: And I'm Paxil Buspar.

ADDERALL: And we'll be here till Thursday -- or until the DEA figures out that we hate its guts, whichever comes first.

ANNOUNCER: This has been a presentation of the Drug War Philosopher @ abolishthedea.com, who reminds you that the Hindu religion was inspired by the use of a drug that inspired and elated, from which it follows that drug prohibition is the outlawing of religion. This is Goodman Johnny speaking. Stay tuned for more comic sendups of America's illogical, racist and superstitious Drug War, right here on abolishthedea.com.



Author's Follow-up:

April 25, 2025

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Alfred North Whitehead wrote the following observation in "The Concept of Nature":

"The substantial reason for rejecting a philosophical theory is the 'absurdum' to which it reduces us."


Clearly, we need to reject materialism 2 -- at least in terms of its pretentions in the field of psychology. That ideology has led to the most absurd result imaginable: namely, the utter blindness of materialists to common sense -- to the extent that they would sacrifice their own gray matter on the altar of their faith in reductionist science.

Of course, we can ascribe at least some of the absurdity to the Drug War propaganda of censorship, which has censored all talk of positive drug use from our lives. But I never realized how successful that propaganda has been before I started encountering this conviction on the part of psychiatrists that brain damage was better than drug use.

Shock therapy is simply our modern version of blood letting. It is performed based on dogmatic assumptions and has nothing to do with common sense or even sanity.

Have these masochist psychiatrists never heard of Alexander Shulgin, or of the Hindu religion for that matter, or of the "quarterly carouses" of opium 3 using poets in the 19th century? Do they really think that the best way to treat depression is to decrease mental capacity? Do they really truly see no therapeutic power in elation and ecstasy and self-transcendence and rapture? Please tell me that these fans of brain damage are joking.

Well, I suppose Mary Baker Eddy would be proud of those of us who choose brain damage over the use of substances that are part of the politically demonized category called "drugs."






Author's Follow-up:

October 20, 2025

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Shock therapy? How about trying cocaine first? Sigmund Freud considered it to be a cure for depression. The drug was demonized by doctors who saw their jobs disappearing should this panacea be available for the depressed. And so they judged the drug by focusing only on the vast MINORITY of people who misused it -- folks who were never educated about SAFE use in the first place. This is precisely as if they were to judge liquor by considering drunkards only. That's the REAL story about cocaine 4 5 : self-interested doctors threw the depressed under the bus. Their Hippocratic Oath was: first, make a buck.

That doctors today would prefer shock therapy shows that they have been duped by their own propaganda. Moliere parodied this gullibility 400 years ago in 'The Imaginary Invalid':

ARGAN: But doctors themselves must believe in the truth in their science since they use it on themselves.

BROTHER: That's because there are some in their number who suffer from the same delusion by which they profit.

--The Imaginary Invalid by Moliere, produced by Yuri Rasovsky










Notes for essay entitled Fried Brains Over Easy: another Drug War Comedy Routine: live from the DEA Lounge:

1: COPS PRESENTS the top 10 traffic stops of 2023 DWP (up)
2: How materialists lend a veneer of science to the lies of the drug warriors DWP (up)
3: The Truth About Opium by William H. Brereton DWP (up)
4: Sigmund Freud's real breakthrough was not psychoanalysis DWP (up)
5: “Freud on Cocaine : Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.” 2023. Internet Archive. 2023. https://archive.org/details/freudoncocaine0000freu/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater. (up)




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I looked up the company: it's all about the damn stock market and money. The FDA outlaws LSD until we remove all the euphoria and the visions. That's ideology, not science. Just relegalize drugs and stop telling me how much ecstasy and insight I can have in my life!!

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.

When Americans "obtain their majority" and wish to partake of drugs safely, they should be paired with older adults who have done just that. Instead, we introduce them to "drug abusers" in prerecorded morality plays to reinforce our biased notions that drug use is wrong.

The best harm reduction strategy would be to re-legalize opium and cocaine. We would thereby end depression in America and free Americans from their abject reliance on the healthcare industry, meanwhile ending gang violence and restoring the rule of law in Latin America.

It's disgusting that folks like Paul Stamets need a DEA license to work with mushrooms.

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.

ECT is like euthanasia. Neither make sense in the age of prohibition.

All drugs have potential positive uses for somebody, at some dose, in some circumstance, alone or in combination. To decide in advance that a drug is completely useless is an offense to reason and to human liberty.

Question: Why do doctors judge cocaine by its worst possible use? Answer: Follow the money.

The FDA will be accepting comments through September 20th on the subject of ways to fight PTSD. PTSD@reaganudall.org Ask them why they support brain-damaging shock therapy but won't approve drugs like MDMA that could make ECT unnecessary.


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