ith respect, Governor, you are just using drug law to steer attention away from the housing problem in America. The Drug War is always used like that: to steer attention away from social problems by arresting inconvenient populations. Drug warriors are murderers of our young people. MURDERERS! There were no young people dying by the thousands in American streets when opiates were legal. It was prohibition which brought that about. How? By discouraging education and incentivizing dealers to sell potentially contaminated product. When are we going to stop being hoodwinked by Drug Warriors?
Their MO is clear, Governor: They are in COMPLETE DENIAL. They blame all the problems caused by drug prohibition on drugs themselves. It is because of that self-serving misdiagnosis that I had to pay $4,000 to experience the benefits of a time-honored mushroom in Oregon. $4,000! So not only does the Drug War cause endless deaths of young people, it keeps millions of Americans from experiencing godsend medicines.
Please, please, please! Stop falling for the Drug War party line of complete denial. Drug warriors are murderers.
Drugs have never killed. Bad drug policies kill along with a lack of education. Drug warriors do not want education, and they refuse to teach safe use or to provide safe product.
So they are not only murderers, they are WILLFUL murderers. Please do not fall for their lies!
Re-legalize MOTHER NATURE TODAY! TEACH, DON'T ARREST. REGULATE AND EDUCATE!
And then address the homelessness problem honestly, head-on -- without diverting public attention to OTHER issues instead!
Open Letters
Check out the conversations that I have had so far with the movers and shakers in the drug-war game -- or rather that I have TRIED to have. Actually, most of these people have failed to respond to my calls to parlay, but that need not stop you from reading MY side of these would-be chats.
I don't know what's worse, being ignored entirely or being answered with a simple "Thank you" or "I'll think about it." One writes thousands of words to raise questions that no one else is discussing and they are received and dismissed with a "Thank you." So much for discussion, so much for give-and-take. It's just plain considered bad manners these days to talk honestly about drugs. Academia is living in a fantasy world in which drugs are ignored and/or demonized -- and they are in no hurry to face reality. And so I am considered a troublemaker. This is understandable, of course. One can support gay rights, feminism, and LGBTQ+ today without raising collegiate hackles, but should one dare to talk honestly about drugs, they are exiled from the public commons.
Somebody needs to keep pointing out the sad truth about today's censored academia and how this self-censorship is but one of the many unacknowledged consequences of the drug war ideology of substance demonization.
There is an absurd safety standard for "drugs." The cost/benefit analysis of the FDA & co. never takes into account the costs of NOT prescribing nor the benefits of a productive life well lived. The "users" are not considered stakeholders.
In "The Book of the Damned," Charles Fort writes about the data that science has damned, by which he means "excluded." The fact that drugs can inspire and elate is one such fact, although when Fort wrote his anti-materialist broadside, drug prohibition was in its infancy.
The Shipiba have learned to heal human beings physically, psychologically and spiritually with what they call "onanyati," plant allies and guides, such as Bobinsana, which "envelops seekers in a cocoon of love." You know: what the DEA would call "junk."
Immanuel Kant wrote that scientists are scornful about metaphysics yet they rely on it themselves without realizing it. This is a case in point, for the idea that euphoria and visions are unhelpful in life is a metaphysical viewpoint, not a scientific one.
"In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the peyote tells us where to find it." --Antonin Arnaud
The Drug War is one big entrapment scheme for poor minorities. Prohibition creates an economy that hugely incentivizes drug dealing, and when the poor fall for the bait, the prohibitionists rush in to arrest them and remove them from the voting rolls.
The Drug War is based on a huge number of misconceptions and prejudices. Obviously it's about power and racism too. It's all of the above. But every time I don't mention one specifically, someone makes out that I'm a moron. Gotta love Twitter.
After over a hundred years of prohibition, America has developed a kind of faux science in which despised substances are completely ignored. This is why Sci Am is making a new argument for shock therapy in 2023, because they ignore all the stuff that OBVIOUSLY cheers one up.
Hollywood presents cocaine as a drug of killers. In reality, strategic cocaine use by an educated person can lead to great mental power, especially as just one part of a pharmacologically balanced diet. That's why drug warriors want to outlaw free speech, to hide such facts.
Today's drug laws tell us that we must respect the historical use of sacred medicines, while denying us our personal right to use them unless our ancestors did so. That's a meta-injustice! It negatively affects the way that we are allowed to experience our world!
Buy the Drug War Comic Book by the Drug War Philosopher Brian Quass, featuring 150 hilarious op-ed pics about America's disgraceful war on Americans
You have been reading an article entitled, Regulate and Educate: an open letter to Oregon Governor Tina Kotek, published on September 1, 2024 on AbolishTheDEA.com. For more information about America's disgraceful drug war, which is anti-patient, anti-minority, anti-scientific, anti-mother nature, imperialistic, the establishment of the Christian Science religion, a violation of the natural law upon which America was founded, and a childish and counterproductive way of looking at the world, one which causes all of the problems that it purports to solve, and then some, visit the drug war philosopher, at abolishTheDEA.com. (philosopher's bio; go to top of this page)
ith respect, Governor, you are just using drug law to steer attention away from the housing problem in America. The Drug War is always used like that: to steer attention away from social problems by arresting inconvenient populations. Drug warriors are murderers of our young people. MURDERERS! There were no young people dying by the thousands in American streets when opiates were legal. It was prohibition which brought that about. How? By discouraging education and incentivizing dealers to sell potentially contaminated product. When are we going to stop being hoodwinked by Drug Warriors? 
You have been reading an article entitled, Regulate and Educate: an open letter to Oregon Governor Tina Kotek, published on September 1, 2024 on AbolishTheDEA.com. For more information about America's disgraceful drug war, which is anti-patient, anti-minority, anti-scientific, anti-mother nature, imperialistic, the establishment of the Christian Science religion, a violation of the natural law upon which America was founded, and a childish and counterproductive way of looking at the world, one which causes all of the problems that it purports to solve, and then some, visit the drug war philosopher, at abolishTheDEA.com. (philosopher's bio; go to top of this page)