Hi, gang! This is your old buddy Drug War Jack spinning the platters that make you want to end the hateful war on godsend medicine, even as the regime in Washington D.C. is planning to invade Venezuela under the pretext of fighting drugs. It's funny how drugs is the answer to everything for our modern oligarchs, am I right? But then it's no wonder, I suppose. It makes foreign policy easy for them. It gives them a pretext for invading the sovereign countries of their choice. And as far as domestic policy is concerned, they can ignore that entirely. Of course, the downsides of their neglect will soon become apparent -- but that is no problem for these oligarchs. They can then simply blame all such downsides on drugs themselves, and brainwashed puritanical Americans will be all too happy to believe them. It's easier than thinking, after all. Speaking of which, here's a big'un everybody's kinda diggin', it's a little thing from Danny and the Drug Testers. They call it, 'O Say Can You See'...
"Rev. Accelyne Williams, a slender 75-year-old man, spent his final moments doubled over, vomiting, his hands bound behind his back with a tight strip of plastic, totally confused about what was happening to him. ... He had literally been scared to death by shouting, storming anti-drug troops. No drugs were found."1
PROFESSOR: Ahem. Thank you very much, Mr. Jack. I would simply venture the following observation. Namely, that saying things like "Crack kills! and "Fentanyl kills!" is philosophically equivalent to saying "Fire bad!" All such statements would have us fear dangerous substances rather than learn how to use them as wisely as possible for the benefit of humanity. Now back to you, Jack.
"All the DJs here on Drug War Radio are required to take a drug test before taking to the air. This is to certify that Drug War Jack has been given such a test and has been found to be using only the best possible drugs for the best possible reasons. Signed, Management."
Drug warriors blame all of the problems that they cause on "drugs" and then insist that the entire WORLD accept their jaundiced view of the natural bounty that God himself told us was good.
Drug prohibition is a crime against humanity. It is the outlawing of our right to take care of our own health.
When scientists discuss suicide without mentioning the fact that their government has outlawed drugs, it is like scientists discussing deaths from bacterial infection without mentioning the fact that their government has outlawed antibiotics.
Had the FDA been around in the Indus Valley 3,500 years ago, there would be no Hindu religion today, because they would have found some potential problem with the use of soma.
It's no wonder that folks blame drugs. Carl Hart is the first American scientist to openly say in a published book that even the so-called "hard" drugs can be used wisely. That's info that the drug warriors have always tried to keep from us.
Imagine someone starting their book about antibiotics by saying that he's not trying to suggest that we actually use them. We should not have to apologize for being honest about drugs. If prohibitionists think that honesty is wrong, that's their problem.
We give kids drugs to improve their concentration -- but if adults use drugs to concentrate, we call them names and throw them in jail.
When folks die in horse-related accidents, we need to be asking: who sold the victim the horse? We've got to crack down on folks who peddle this junk -- and ban books like Black Beauty that glamorize horse use.
If drug war logic made sense, we would outlaw endless things in addition to drugs. Because the drug war says that it's all worth it if we can save just one life -- which is generally the life of a white suburban young person, btw.
America created a whole negative morality around "drugs" starting in 1914. "Users" became fiends and were as helpless as a Christian sinner -- in need of grace from a higher power. Before prohibition, these "fiends" were habitues, no worse than Ben Franklin or Thomas Jefferson.
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