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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 formula is easy: pick a substance that folks are predisposed to hate anyway, then keep hounding the public with stories about tragedies somehow related to that substance. Show it ruining lives in movies and on TV. Don't lie. Just keep showing all the negatives.

A pharmacologically savvy drug dealer would have no problem getting someone off one drug because they would use the common sense practice of fighting drugs with drugs. But materialist doctors would rather that the patient suffer than to use such psychologically obvious methods.

After over a hundred years of prohibition, America has developed a kind of faux science in which despised substances are completely ignored. This is why Sci Am is making a new argument for shock therapy in 2023, because they ignore all the stuff that OBVIOUSLY cheers one up.

If I smoke opium nightly, I am a drug scumbag. If I use Big Pharma "meds" every day of my life, I am a good patient.

We should no more arrest drug users than we arrest people for climbing sheer rock faces or for driving a car.

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!!

Outlawing substances like laughing gas and MDMA makes no more sense than outlawing fire.

There are neither "drugs" nor "meds" as those terms are used today. All substances have potential good uses and bad uses. The terms as used today carry value judgements, as in meds good, drugs bad.

Prohibition is wrong root and branch. It seeks to justify the colonial disdain for indigenous healing practices through fearmongering.

How else will they scare us enough to convince us to give up all our freedoms for the purpose of fighting horrible awful evil DRUGS? DRUGS is the sledgehammer with which they are destroying American democracy.


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