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Prehistoric Drug Warrior found at Lascaux Cave in France

newly discovered troglodyte may be the world's first fearmonger

by Brian Ballard Quass, the Drug War Philosopher

June 18, 2025



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Welcome to the Drug War Podcast for Saturday, June 14, 2025, from AbolishTheDEA.com. Please welcome today's guest, Og the Caveman.


Og caveperson, not caveman.


Now, I understand that you have an urgent message for our young people.


Fire bad! Fire bad!


Fire bad? Fire has a lot of amazing and beneficial uses.


You would not say that if YOUR family had been killed by fire.





You see what I did there?


Yes, I see what you did there, Og. You stole the moral high ground by superstitiously demonizing the godsend substance known as fire.


Thereby proving that the Drug War mindset goes back tens of thousands of years.


The Drug War mindset?


Yes, the Drug War mindset is this crazy idea that we should fear dangerous substances rather than to learn how to use them as wisely as possible for human benefit.


Great. Wait till I get back to 15,000 BCE and tell my better half that I am so far ahead of my time when it comes to childish fear mongering!









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Ten Tweets

against the hateful war on US




What attracts me about "drug dealers" is that they are NOT interested in prying into my private life. What a relief! With psychiatry, you are probed for pathological behavior on every office visit. You are a child. To the "drug dealer," I am an adult at least.

If we encourage folks to use antidepressants daily, there is nothing wrong with them using heroin daily. A founder of Johns Hopkins used morphine daily and he not only survived, but he thrived.

If daily drug use and dependency are okay, then there's no logical or scientific reason why I can't smoke a nightly opium pipe.

Scientists are responsible for endless incarcerations in America. Why? Because they fail to denounce the DEA lie that psychoactive substances have no positive medical uses. This is so obviously wrong that only an academic in an Ivory Tower could believe it.

The Drug War is the legally enforced triumph of human idiocy. We have rigged the deck so that our dunces can be right. The Drug War is a superstition. Indeed, it is THE modern superstition.

"The depression lifted from my mind like the sun coming out of the clouds." -- Arthur Crowley after using cocaine

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

There is something wrong with a country that thinks it can decide what human beings around the world are allowed to ingest.

Katie MacBride's one-sided attack on MAPS reminds me of why I got into an argument with Vincent Rado. Yes, psychedelic hype can go too far, but let's solve the huge problem first by ending the drug war!!!

State-assisted suicide for the depressed is murder in a world in which the state outlaws all substances that could make the depressed wish to live.


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