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Nature's Most Wanted

Have you seen these botanicals?

by Brian Ballard Quass, the Drug War Philosopher

May 24, 2022





#1 Erythroxylum coca




UNLAWFUL PROVIDER OF CLARITY, GIVING HUMAN BEINGS MENTAL POWERS THAT GOD NEVER INTENDED

ALIASES: Coke -- and a variety of snarky pejorative epithets like 'blow'

FAMILY: Erythroxylaceae

LOCATION: Last seen on the eastern slopes of the Andes


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#2 Papaver somniferum




PROVIDER OF FORBIDDEN CREATIVITY THROUGH THE UNLAWFUL CREATION OF METAPHORICALLY INSTRUCTIVE DREAM IMAGERY

ALIASES: Opium poppy

FAMILY: Erythroxylaceae

LOCATION: Last seen in Eastern Mediterranean, but sightings have also been reported in North Africa and Eurasia.


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#3 Psilocybin cubensis



UNLAWFUL IMPROVEMENT OF HUMAN MIND, FIRST DEGREE THREAT TO LIQUOR INDUSTRY AND MODERN PSYCHIATRY

ALIASES: Golden Teacher, Golden Halos, Cubes, Gold Caps, Shrooms, Stropharia cubensis, Mayan name: "k'aizalaj Okox"

FAMILY: Hymenogastraceae

LOCATION: Last seen in Cuba, Southwestern USA, Northern South America, Pacific Islands, Australia


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#4 Psilocybin semilanceata




UNLAWFUL SPIRITUAL BENEFITS, POTENTIAL THREAT TO ESTABLISHED RELIGIONS

ALIASES: Liberty Caps, Panaeolus semilanceatus, Phrygian Caps, Mongui, St. John's Mushroom

FAMILY: Strophariaceae

LOCATION: Last seen in Europe, North or South America, Asia, Australia, or New Zealand


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#5 Psilocybin ovoideocystidiata




UNLAWFUL LAUGHTER MAKING, POTENTIAL THREAT TO GOD AND COUNTRY

ALIASES: Ovoids

FAMILY: Hymenogastraceae

LOCATION: Last seen in Eastern US, especially Ohio and West Virginia, but appears to be on the move. Reported sightings made in western USA and Europe.


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#6 Psilocybin azurescens




UNLAWFUL THOUGHT GENERATOR, POTENTIAL THREAT TO CONSUMERISM AND MATERIALISM

ALIASES: Flying Saucers, Blue Runners, Blue Angels, Azzies

FAMILY: Hymenogastraceae

LOCATION: Last seen in Pacific Northwest, especially Oregon and Washington state.


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#7 Psilocybin cyanescens




UNLAWFUL PROVIDER OF MENTAL FLEXIBILITY, THREAT OF GROWING NEW BRAIN CELLS IN USER

ALIASES: Blue Meanie, Wavy Cap, Wakefield, Cyan, Blue Halo, Gold Tops, Copper Tops

FAMILY: Hymenogastraceae

LOCATION: Last seen in coastal US western states. Occasional reports of sightings in Europe.







#8 Amanita muscaria




SUSPECTED OF CAUSING PLEASANT DREAMS AND INSPIRING USERS WITH NOVEL MENTAL VISTAS

ALIASES: Fly Agaric, Fly Amanita

FAMILY: Amanitaceae

LOCATION: This shroom is constantly on the move. Reported sightings span the globe, in North America, Mexico, Central America, Asia, Europe and Australia


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#9 Banisteriopsis caapi and psychotria viridis



THREAT TO CHRISTIANITY, SUSPECTED OF PROMOTING ILLEGAL SELF-INSIGHT

ALIASES: Ayahuasca, La Purga

FAMILY: Malpighiaceae

LOCATION: Last seen in South America








#10 Lophophora williamsii




THREAT TO MATERIALISM, SUSPECTED OF INSPIRING CROSS-CULTURAL DREAM IMAGES

ALIASES: Peyote, Nahuatl peyōtl, Caterpillar Cocoon

FAMILY: Cactaceae

LOCATION: Last seen in Mexico and Southwestern Texas


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Notes:

1: The Truth About Opium by William H. Brereton DWP (up)




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Musk vies with his fellow materialists in his attempt to diss humans as insignificant. But we are not insignificant. The very term "insignificant" is a human creation. Consciousness rules. Indeed, consciousness makes the rules. Without us, there would only be inchoate particles.

Using the billions now spent on caging users, we could end the whole phenomena of both physical and psychological addiction by using "drugs to fight drugs." But drug warriors do not want to end addiction, they want to keep using it as an excuse to ban drugs.

We would never have even heard of Freud except for cocaine. How many geniuses is America stifling even as we speak thanks to the war on mind improving medicines?

Suicidal people should be given drugs that cheer them up immediately and whose use they can look forward to. The truth is, we would rather such people die than to give them such drugs, that's just how bamboozled we are by the war against drugs.

His answer to political opposition is: "Lock them up!" That's Nazi speak, not American democracy.

I'm grateful to the folks who are coming out of the woodwork at the last minute to deface their own properties with "Trump 2024" signs. Now I'll know who to thank should Trump get elected and sell us out to Putin.

All sites about drugs are propaganda in the age of the Drug War, just as all talk about Jewish criminals was propaganda during WWII. Drugs can have downsides and Jews may be criminals, but to focus only on those facts in a time of war turns everything you say into propaganda.

The worst form of government is not communism, socialism or even unbridled capitalism. The worst form of government is a Christian Science Theocracy, in which the government controls how much you are allowed to think and feel in life.

The drug war is the defeatist doctrine that we will never be able to use psychoactive drugs wisely. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy because the government does everything it can to make drug use dangerous.

Drug warriors are full of hate for "users." Many of them make it clear that they want users to die (like Gates and Bennett...). The drug war has weaponized inhumanity.


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