Although this kind of movie deserves to be panned for its ideological toxicity, don't hold your breath waiting for critics to bash the movie on that score. And as far as parental watch dog groups are concerned, count on them to lambaste such pics for nudity, violence, and naughty words, but don't expect to hear a peep about the pro-fascist message of such DEA propaganda. Johnny must not swear, of course, but if he wants to torture and murder folks who traffic in Mother Nature's plants, more power to him.
No one can claim to know the full evil of the Drug War without recognizing the fact that it has unnecessarily turned the depressed into patients for life -- and forced them to "treat" a condition that they could have effectively "cured" with drugs like cocaine had prohibition not denied them access to the plant medicine of Mother Nature -- which prohibition itself was a crime against humanity and a violation of the natural law upon which Thomas Jefferson founded America13."Brian, we have just sold off your entire portfolio of food stocks after learning that foodborne illness kills over 900 people a year in America alone!!!16"
The U.S. Congress considered the following to be a scientific fact back in 1924:
"A person taking narcotics regularly impedes evolutionary progress and tends to degenerate backwards toward the brute." -- Richmond Hobson
We give kids drugs to improve their concentration -- but if adults use drugs to concentrate, we call them names and throw them in jail.
This is the mentality for today's materialist researcher when it comes to "laughing gas." He does not care that it merely cheers folks up. He wants to see what is REALLY going on with the substance, using electrodes and brain scans.
Ann Lemke's case studies make the usual assumptions: getting free from addiction is a morality tale. No reference to how the drug war promotes addiction and how banned drugs could solve such problems. She does not say why daily SSRI use is acceptable while daily opium use is not. Etc.
Drug Prohibition is a crime against humanity. It outlaws our right to take care of our own health.
If MAPS wants to make progress with MDMA they should start "calling out" the FDA for judging holistic medicines by materialist standards, which means ignoring all glaringly obvious benefits.
Drug testing labs are the modern Inquisitors. We are not judged by the content of our character, but by the content of our digestive systems.
I wonder if Nixon knew what a favor he was doing medical capitalism when he outlawed psychedelics. Those drugs can actually cure things, and there's no money in that.
My depression would disappear overnight if religiously intolerant America would just allow me to live as freely as Benjamin Franklin.
Cop and detective shows are loaded with subtle drug war propaganda, including lines like, "She had a history of drug use, so..." The implication being that anyone who uses substances that politicians hate cannot be trusted.
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