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Let's hear it for Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx

and everyone else who stands up to the drug war at the risk of losing their own freedom

by Brian Ballard Quass, the Drug War Philosopher

October 16, 2024



Here is my response to an article entitled "FREE DULF. NO MORE DYING. NO MORE DRUG WAR 2024," published by the Drug User Solidarity Committee on the Drug War Decoded-Canada website.1

Thanks and best wishes to Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx... and to everyone else who stands up to the hateful Drug War at the risk of their own freedom.

The Drug War is anti-democratic. The proof is extant.

It has destroyed the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution (which used to bar unreasonable search). It outlaws religions that rely on entheogenic ritual. It is a makework program for law enforcement that throws millions of minorities in jail every year, thereby handing elections to tyrants. And Drug Warriors are not done yet with their assault on democratic freedoms. In early 2024, Oregon politicians floated a plan to outlaw free speech when it comes to drugs.

Drug warriors would prefer that drug users die than to provide them with regulated product. They would prefer nuclear armageddon 2 3 4 5 to a world in which people use entheogens to promote world peace.

America's Food & Drug Administration embraces the same warped priorities.

It disapproves of drugs that could prevent suicide 6 and school shootings. Meanwhile it approves of Big Pharma 7 8 "meds" whose side effects include death itself 9 . This is the same FDA which approves of brain-damaging shock therapy, the same FDA which endorses the psychiatric pill mill and the same FDA which has no problem with the fact that 1 in 4 American women are chemically dependent on antidepressants 10 for life.

But the media and politicians keep running a full-court press against common sense and simple humanity.

Thank God for folks like Jeremy and Eris who dare to push back!

Author's Follow-up: October 16, 2024

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Drug prohibition is a very strange puppy. First America decided to end liquor prohibition once and for all with the 21st amendment to the U.S. Constitution. But then those same Americans began outlawing every even potentially popular psychoactive alternative to liquor, many of them time-honored, some of them long considered panaceas, and none of them as dangerous as alcohol itself.

So Americans love prohibition -- they just want to make one big fat exception for liquor when it comes to prohibition enforcement.









Notes:

1: FREE DULF. NO MORE DYING. NO MORE DRUG WAR 2024. Thomson, Euan, Drug Dated Decoded Canada, 2024 (up)
2: 8 Nuclear Close Calls that Nearly Spelled Disaster Davidson, Lucy, History Hit, 2022 (up)
3: 35 Facts About Goldsboro Accident Hartwell, Therese, Facts.Net, 2025 (up)
4: A Darkening Horizon: Nuclear Dangers Around the World with Matthew Bunn Bunn, Matthew, Harvard Kennedy School, 2023 (up)
5: “Google Books.” 2019. Google.com. 2019. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Command_and_Control/H0-CJckES44C?hl=en. (up)
6: Why Americans Prefer Suicide to Drug Use DWP (up)
7: Seife, Charles. 2012. “Is Drug Research Trustworthy?” Scientific American 307 (6): 56–63. https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican1212-56. (up)
8: LaMattina, John. n.d. “Why Is Biopharma Paying 75% of the FDA’s Drug Division Budget?” Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnlamattina/2022/09/22/why-is-biopharma-paying-75-of-the-fdas-drug-division-budget/. (up)
9: RINVOQ RX List (up)
10: Antidepressants and the War on Drugs DWP (up)




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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.

Hollywood presents cocaine as a drug of killers. In reality, strategic cocaine use by an educated person can lead to great mental power, especially as just one part of a pharmacologically balanced diet.

The whole drug war is based on the anti-American idea that the way to avoid problems is to lie and prevaricate and persuade people not to ask questions.

The term "hard" is just our modern pejorative term for the kinds of drugs that doctors of yore used to call panaceas

When it comes to "drugs," the government plays Polonius to our Ophelia: OPHELIA: I do not know, my lord, what I should think. POLONIUS: Marry, I'll teach you; think yourself a baby!

"Just ONE HORSE took the life of my daughter." This message brought to you by the Partnership for a Death Free America.

The Cabinet of Caligari ('62) ends with a shameless display of psychiatric triumphalism. Happy shock therapy patients waltz freely about a mansion in which the "sick" protagonist has just been "cured" by tranquilizers and psychoanalysis. Did Robert Bloch believe his own script?

All of our problems with opioids and opiates could have been avoided had the busybody Chicken Littles in America left well enough alone and let folks continue to smoke regulated opium peaceably in their own homes.

"They have called thee Soma-lover: here is the pressed juice. Drink thereof for rapture." -Rig Veda (There would be no Hindu religion today had the drug war been in effect in the Punjab 3,500 years ago.)

Psychiatrists never acknowledge the biggest downside to modern antidepressants: the fact that they turn you into a patient for life. That's demoralizing, especially since the best drugs for depression are outlawed by the government.


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