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Regulate and Educate

an open letter to Oregon Governor Tina Kotek

by Brian Ballard Quass, the Drug War Philosopher

September 1, 2024



With 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!










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Magazines like Psychology Today continue to publish feel-good articles about depression which completely ignore the fact that we have outlawed all drugs that could end depression in a heartbeat.

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.

Imagine if we held sports to the same safety standard as drugs. There would be no sports at all. And yet even free climbing is legal. Why? Because with sports, we recognize the benefits and not just the downsides.

Even if the FDA approved MDMA today, it would only be available for folks specifically pronounced to have PTSD by materialist doctors, as if all other emotional issues are different problems and have to be studied separately. That's just ideological foot-dragging.

We need to stop using the fact that people like opiates as an excuse to launch a crackdown on inner cities. We need to re-legalize popular meds, teach safe use, and come up with common sense ways to combat addictions by using drugs to fight drugs.

LA Police Chief Daryl Gates said drug users should be summarily executed. William Bennett said drug dealers should be beheaded. These are the Nazi attitudes that the drug war inculcates. This racist and brutal ideology must be wiped out.

For most drugs, dependency is a bug. For Big Pharma antidepressants, it is a feature.

Rather than protesting prohibition as a crackdown on academic freedom, today's scientists are collaborating with the drug war by promoting shock therapy and SSRIs, thereby profiting from the monopoly that the drug war gives them in selling mind and mood medicine.

The DEA should be put on trial for crimes against humanity for withholding godsend medicine from the depressed. Here is just one typical drug-user report that appeared in "Pihkal": "A glimpse of what true heaven is supposed to feel like..."

So he writes about the mindset of the deeply depressed, reifying the condition as if it were some great "type" inevitably to be encountered in humanity. No. It's the "type" to be found in a post-Christian society that has turned up its scientific nose at psychoactive medicine.


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