"Psilocybin mushrooms are surprisingly easy to grow."
"Use some of your rubbing alcohol to clean a fork. When the alcohol has evaporated, you can use the fork to gently scrape at the dry vermiculite layer. Please note that you're not scraping it off. You're simply trying to scrape to the bottom to make sure all the mycelium gets everywhere."
"Psilocybin's popularity wasn't slowing down, largely due to the hippie movement. This left the government no choice but to completely ban the use of psilocybin."
"We have to spread the use of these love-promoting drugs insofar as our world is on the brink of nuclear annihilation!"
The drug war is a meta-injustice. It does not just limit what you're allowed to think, it limits how and how much you are allowed to think.
Drugs that sharpen the mind should be thoroughly investigated for their potential to help dementia victims. Instead, we prefer to demonize these drugs as useless. That's anti-scientific and anti-patient.
Someday, the First Lady or Man will tell kids to "just say no to prohibition." Kids who refuse will be required to watch hours' worth of films depicting gun violence, banned religions, civil wars, and adults committing suicide for want of medicine that grows at their very feet.
If America cannot exist without outlawing drugs, then there is something wrong with America, not with drugs.
Aleister Crowley actually TRIED to get addicted to drugs and found he could not. These things are not inevitable. The fact that there are town drunkards does not mean that we should outlaw alcohol.
Folks point to the seemingly endless drugs that can be synthesized today and say it's a reason for prohibition. To the contrary, it's the reason why prohibition is madness. It results in an endless game of militaristic whack-a-mole at the expense of democratic freedoms.
Anytime you hear that a psychoactive drug has not been proven to be effective, it's a lie. People can make such claims only by dogmatically ignoring all the glaringly obvious signs of efficacy.
If we can go overseas to burn poppy plants, then Islamic countries should be free to come to the United States to burn our grape vines.
There are no recreational drugs. Even laughing gas has rational uses because it gives us a break from morbid introspection. There are recreational USES of drugs, but the term "recreational" is often used to express our disdain for users who go outside the healthcare system.
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.
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