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How Drug Prohibition Will End

What the case of Claire Brosseau tells us about the drug-hating madness of the west

by Brian Ballard Quass, the Drug War Philosopher

February 22, 2026



The Case of Claire Brosseau demonstrates how insane North Americans have become thanks to drug propaganda. Even the Cato Institute is supporting Claire Brosseau's right to kill herself, thereby sending the clear message that it is better to die than to use "drugs" that would cheer one up in a trice. There is a potentially endless list of drugs that could improve Brosseau's mood dramatically, yet I am the only one in the world who is pointing this out -- in essays, of course, that are buried alive by Google's inherently conservative algorithms. But I have sent personal emails to the movers-and-shakers on this topic, and no one has replied. They are all determined to frame Brosseau's case as a fight for assisted suicide -- when it should be an enormous red flag that drug prohibition is denying Claire the right to take care of her own health as she sees fit. In other words, Claire and her allies should be fighting for an end to drug prohibition and not for her right to assisted suicide.

How do you change minds in a world where everyone now believes that it is better to DIE than to use drugs?!


Doctor in a confessional hearing a penitent say: 'Forgive me, Father, for I have self-medicated.'
Self-medicating is just a pejorative term for taking care of one's own psychological health. Doctors demonize the practice for obvious financial reasons.




Clearly, the answer has got to come from outside the United States. Some country has got to speak up for drug re-legalization on behalf of the citizen's right to take care of their own health as they see fit. Of course, Portugal is a small step in this direction, but the Portuguese system is really just a "kinder, gentler Drug War." Their system still assumes that drug use represents a pathology -- as if it is a disease to attempt to take care of one's own health without the permission of the self-interested healthcare establishment.










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The line drawn between recreational and medical use is wishful thinking on the part of drug warriors. Recreation, according to Webster's, is "refreshment or diversion," and both have positive knock-on effects in the lives of real people.

Do drug warriors realize that they are responsible for the deaths of young people on America's streets? Look in the mirror, folks. People were not dying en masse from opium overdoses when opiates were legal. It took your prohibition to accomplish that! Stop arresting, start teaching safe use!

Drugs that sharpen the mind should be thoroughly investigated for their potential to help dementia victims. Instead, we prefer to demonize these drugs as useless. That's anti-scientific and anti-patient.

The DEA is gaslighting Americans, telling them that drugs with obvious benefits have no benefits whatsoever. Scientists collude in this lie thanks to their adherence to the emotion-scorning principles of behaviorism.

If politicians wanted to outlaw coffee, a bunch of Kevin Sabets would come forward and start writing books designed to scare us off the drink by cherry-picking negative facts from scientific studies.

SWAT raids have increased by 15,000 percent from the late 1970s to today, resulting in 50,000 to 80,000 SWAT raids annually in the US alone. --War On Us

We have to deny the FDA the right to judge psychoactive medicines in the first place. Their materialist outlook obliges them to ignore all obvious benefits. When they nix drugs like MDMA, they nix compassion and love.

As great as it is, "Synthetic Panics" by Philip Jenkins was only tolerated by academia because it did not mention drugs in the title and it contains no explicit opinions about drugs. As a result, many drug law reformers still don't know the book exists.

I, for one, am actually TRYING to recommend drugs like MDMA and psilocybin as substitutes for shock therapy. In fact, I would recommend almost ANY pick-me-up drug as an alternative to knowingly damaging the human brain. That's more than the hateful DEA can say.

Musk and co. want to make us more robot-like with AI, when they should be trying to make us more human-like with sacred medicine. Only humans can gain creativity from plant medicine. All AI can do is harvest the knowledge that eventually results from that creativity.


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