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Nature's Most Wanted

Have you seen these botanicals?

by 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 peyƍtl, Caterpillar Cocoon

FAMILY: Cactaceae

LOCATION: Last seen in Mexico and Southwestern Texas


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I'd like to become a guinea pig for researchers to test the ability of psychoactive drugs to make aging as psychologically healthy as possible. If such drugs cannot completely ward off decrepitude, they can surely make it more palatable. The catch? Researchers have to be free.
Musk and co. want to make us more robot-like with AI, when they should be trying to make us more human-like with sacred medicine. Only humans can gain creativity from plant medicine. All AI can do is harvest the knowledge that eventually results from that creativity.
High suicide rates? What a poser! Gee, I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that the US has outlawed all substances that elate and inspire???
Orchestras will eventually use psychedelics to train conductors. When the successful candidate directs mood-fests like Mahler's 2nd, THEY will be the stars, channeling every known -- and some unknown -- human emotions. Think Simon Rattle on... well, on psychedelics.
I hope that scientists will eventually find the prohibition gene so that we can eradicate this superstitious way of thinking from humankind. "Ug! Drugs bad! Drugs not good for anyone, anywhere, at any dose, for any reason, ever! Ug!"
We need to start thinking of drug-related deaths like we do about car accidents: They're terrible, and yet they should move us to make driving safer, not to outlaw driving. To think otherwise is to swallow the drug war lie that "drugs" can have no positive uses.
The book "Plants of the Gods" is full of plants and fungi that could help addicts and alcoholics, sometimes in the plant's existing form, sometimes in combinations, sometimes via extracting alkaloids, etc. But drug warriors need addiction to sell their prohibition ideology.
To understand why the western world is blind to the benefits of "drugs," read "The Concept of Nature" by Whitehead. He unveils the scientific schizophrenia of the west, according to which the "real" world is invisible to us while our perceptions are mere "secondary" qualities.
Your drug war has caused the disappearance of over 60,000 Mexicans over the last 20 years. It has turned inner cities into shooting galleries. It has turned America into a penal colony. It has destroyed the 4th amendment and put bureaucrats in charge of deciding if our religions are "sincere."
Richard Evans Schultes seems to have originated the harebrained idea (since used by the US Supreme Court to suppress new religions) that you have no right to use drugs in a religious ritual if you did not grow up in a society that had such practices. What tyrannical idiocy!
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