This is why America is creeping toward authoritarianism -- because of the prohibitionists' ability to get away with everything by blaming "drugs."
So much harm could be reduced by shunting people off onto safer alternative drugs -- but they're all outlawed! Reducing harm should ultimately mean ending this prohibition that denies us endless godsends, like the phenethylamines of Alexander Shulgin.
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 merely recreational drugs. All drugs that elate have obvious potential uses for the depressed.
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.
Someday the world will realize that Freud's real achievement was his discovery of the depression-busting power of cocaine.
"Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death." -Jean Cocteau
We don't need people to get "clean." We need people to start living a fulfilling life. The two things are different.
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.
Did the Vedic People have a substance disorder because they wanted to drink enough soma to see religious realities?
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