After murdering John Darling and losing his hand to Peter Pan, Lily the daughter of Peter and Wendy, now will face carnage from the drug induced revenge seeking James Hook, her biological father, until he marries Wendy Darling.
It is said that the Government must safeguard the health of the community. And the moment that is said, there ceases to be the shadow of a difference between beer and tea. People can certainly spoil their health with tea or with tobacco or with twenty other things. And there is no escape for the hygienic logician except to restrain and regulate them all." s14
It is quite impossible to know— without knowing a great deal about such a person, his family and friends, and his whole cultural setting— just what [a drug user] is doing and why. But it is quite possible, indeed it is easy, to know what those persons who try to repress certain kinds of drug uses and drug users are doing and why.
It is so obvious and so well known that most prohibitions generate massive defiance of them— especially if the prohibited acts supposedly injure only the actor himself, and actually do not injure even him— that I will only record my amazement here about how people can blind themselves to this rule when trying to think about and deal with the “drug problem.”
I might as well say that no one can ever be taught to ride a horse safely. I would argue as follows: "Look at Christopher Reeves. He was a responsible and knowledgeable equestrian. But he couldn't handle horses. The fact is, NO ONE can handle horses!"
The drug war is a scare campaign to teach us to distrust mother nature and to rely on pharmaceuticals instead.
Cocaine is not evil. Opium is not evil. Drug prohibition is evil.
In "Four Good Days" the pompous white-coated doctor ignores the entire formulary of mother nature and instead throws the young heroin user on a cot for 3 days of cold turkey and a shot of Naltrexone: price tag $3,000.
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.
Billboards reading "Fentanyl kills" encourage the creation of racist legislation that outlaws all godsend uses of opiates. Kids in hospice in India go without morphine because of America's superstitious fear of opiates.
That's the problem with prohibition. It is not ultimately a health question but a question about priorities and sensibilities -- and those topics are open to lively debate and should not be the province of science, especially when natural law itself says mother nature is ours.
America is an "arrestocracy" thanks to the war on drugs.
The best harm reduction strategy would be to re-legalize opium and cocaine. We would thereby end depression in America and free Americans from their abject reliance on the healthcare industry, meanwhile ending gang violence and restoring the rule of law in Latin America.
The FDA uses reductive materialism to justify and normalize the views of Cortes and Pizarro with respect to entheogenic medicine.
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