'I saw how we created the nuclear fiasco to threaten the existence of the planet, as if it would be only through the threat of complete annihilation that people might wake up and begin to become concerned about each other.'
- Alexander Shulgin in 'Pihkal,'1 writing of the insights that he obtained after ingesting one of the many phenethylamines that he synthesized during his lifetime.
'It was the first time that black-and-white people had integrated on a level... and everybody was one.' -- DJ Ray Keith.
'It was black and white, Asian, Chinese, all up in one building,' -- MC GQ.
'Everyone's loving each other, man, they're not hating.' - DJ Mampi Swift.
'A remarkable effect of this drug is the extreme empathy felt for all small things; a stone, a flower, an insect. I believe that it would be impossible to harm anything. To commit an overt harmful or painful act on anyone or anything is beyond one's capabilities.'
Alexander Shulgin in 'Pihkal,'5 writing of the insights that he obtained after ingesting one of the many phenethylamines that he synthesized during his lifetime.
'My body was flooded with orgasms practically from just breathing.'
'That is simply one man's opinion. We have to look under microscopes and do chemical analyses to see if such drugs are REALLY helping anyone on the sexual front.'
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This is why I call the drug war 'fanatical Christian Science.' People would rather have grandpa die than to let him use laughing gas or coca or opium or MDMA, etc. etc.
If opium and cocaine were re-legalized, hospital buildings would no longer be the secular cathedrals of our time. Some of that wealth would actually go to healthy people.
Ketamine is like any other drug. It has good uses for certain people in certain situations. Nowadays, people insist that a drug be okay in every situation for everybody (especially American teens) before they will say that it's okay. That's crazy and anti-scientific.
Drugs are not the enemy, ignorance is -- the ignorance that the Drug War encourages by teaching us to fear drugs rather than to understand them.
We need to start thinking of drug-related deaths like we do about car accidents: They're terrible, and yet they should move us to make driving safer, not to outlaw driving. To think otherwise is to swallow the drug war lie that "drugs" can have no positive uses.
Almost every mainstream article about psychology and consciousness is nonsense these days because it ignores the way that drug prohibition has stymied our investigation of such subjects.
The drug war bans human progress by deciding that hundreds of drugs are trash without even trying to find positive uses for them. Yet scientists continue to research and write as if prohibition does not exist, that's how cowed they are by drug laws.
Most enemies of inner-city gun violence refuse to protest against the drug prohibition which caused the violence in the first place.
Democratic societies need to outlaw prohibition for many reasons, the first being the fact that prohibition removes millions of minorities from the voting rolls, thereby handing elections to fascists and insurrectionists.
Drug prohibition has resulted in hundreds of thousands of completely unnecessary deaths thanks to totally preventable drug overdoses!
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