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?!
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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When we place the FDA in charge of deciding whether a psychoactive drug should be re-legalized or not, we are asking them to decide on things like the relative importance of appreciating a sunset, a task for which the FDA has no expertise whatsoever.
The DEA should be tried for crimes against humanity. They have been lying about drugs for 50 years and running interference between human beings and Mother Nature in violation of natural law, depriving us of countless potential and known godsends in order to create more DEA jobs.
Someday those books about weird state laws will be full of factoids like: "In Alabama, you could be jailed for 20 years for conspiring to eat a mushroom."
If media were free in America, you'd see documentaries about people using drugs wisely for a wide variety of praiseworthy purposes.
We're living in a sci-fi dystopia called "Fahrenheit 452", in which the police burn thought-expanding plants instead of thought-expanding books.
The UK just legalized assisted dying. This means that you can use drugs to kill a person, but you still can't use drugs to make that person want to live.
The outlawing of coca and opium is a crime against humanity.
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.
Doc to Franklin: "I'm sorry, Ben, but I see no benefits of opium use under my microscope. The idea that you are living a fulfilled life is clearly a mistake on your part. If you want to be scientific, stop using opium and be scientifically depressed like the rest of us."
The best long-term treatment for OUD would be to normalize the nightly smoking of opium at home, not to addict the user to government-supplied drugs that render them impervious to the benefits of the poppy plant.
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