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Hating on Drugs?



by Ballard Quass, the Drug War Philosopher



May 25, 2024



hat do you guys make of the tweet that I read this morning by one "American Muskrat"?

"I am under the impression the Philosopher is speaking of improving the mind directly with drugs, consciousness expansion, that sort of thing. I don't buy into that anymore.

Insomnia sucks, it's why I'm drinking beer in a hotel bathroom at 4:40am."


I don't know about you, but I took this as a prohibitionist broadside. In other words, I thought that the Muskrat was dissing godsend medicines.

Based on that assumption, I took that tweet as a challenge and responded rapidly with the following indignant barrage.

Read folks like Alexander Shulgin1, James Fadiman2, and Stanislav Grof3 for documented evidence of how drugs can improve the mind and even grow new neurons. For the latest evidence, see Psychedelic Medicine by Richard Louis Miller4.


And this is before we even start talking about the obvious fact that almost ANY "pick me up" drug can be used to fight depression -- except that racist politicians have convinced us with non-stop indoctrination that humans are too infantile to ever use them wisely5.


I don't know how anybody can say that psychoactive drugs cannot help when there are thousands we have never studied and even the known drugs are studied through a lens of Christian Science biashttps://www.abolishthedea.com/citations.php.


They must not be aware of the way that drugs like MDMA are being used, even now, to revitalize old relationships and marriages and to make talk therapy really work. See "Listening to Ecstasy" by Charles Wininger6.


Author's Follow-up: May 25, 2024

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Update: The guy means it. Weird. It's always hard for me to believe that there are people out there who have swallowed America's drug-war propaganda hook, line and sinker. They actually tell us that they know that there is no benefit in drugs -- not realizing that they use drugs every day of their life: coffee, nicotine, alcohol, antidepressants, MONSTER energy drinks7. They mean there's no benefit in the drugs they don't like.

Typical American know-it-all-ism.

But then he's obviously a troll, since only a troll would tell a 65-year-old that he's "going through a phase."



Notes:

1 Shulgin, Alexander, PIHKAL: A Chemical Love Story , Transform Press, 1991 (up)
2 Fadiman, James, The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys , Park Street Press, New York, 2011 (up)
3 Grof, Stanislav, The transpersonal vision: the healing potential of nonordinary states of consciousness, Sounds True, Boulder, Co., 1998 (up)
4 Miller, Richard Lawrence, Drug Warriors and Their Prey: From Police Power to Police State, Bloomsbury Academic, New York, 1966 (up)
5 Quass, Brian, The real reason for depression in America, 2019 (up)
6 Wininger, Charles, Listening to Ecstasy, 2021 (up)
7 Quass, Brian, There are no such things as drugs, 2020 (up)



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These are just simple psychological truths that drug war ideology is designed to hide from sight. Doctors tell us that "drugs" are only useful when created by Big Pharma, chosen by doctors, and authorized by folks who have spent thousands on medical school. (Lies, lies, lies.)
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