hatever we call the drug-war mindset, it exists, and, in my view, is part of a centuries-long pathology of western culture, which clings to the following anti-democratic assumptions:
War is good.
Right wing "ends" justify any "means" in South America.
It's okay to torture our enemies.
Developing thermonuclear bombs makes sense.
Folks can be hounded out of society for non-crimes, like being communists.
Natural Law and due process can be overruled in "drugs" cases.
We can bomb "them" into submission
Treaties with native populations are meant to be broken.
Thermonuclear bombs were worth pursuing.
Concern for civil and human rights stops at our border.
It's no surprise therefore that those who hold this mindset are opposed to drug re-legalization. Empathogenic drugs like psilocybin and MDMA could bring us all together and make these politicians, and their politics, irrelevant. That's why the powers that be feed us the unscientific lie that godsend medicines have no positive uses whatsoever, for anyone, ever.
Typical materialist protocol. Take all the "wonder" out of the drug and sell it as a one-size-fits all "reductionist" cure for anxiety. Notice that they refer to hallucinations and euphoria as "adverse effects." What next? Communion wine with the religion taken out of it?
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.
America created a whole negative morality around "drugs" starting in 1914. "Users" became fiends and were as helpless as a Christian sinner -- in need of grace from a higher power. Before prohibition, these "fiends" were habitues, no worse than Ben Franklin or Thomas Jefferson.
The FDA tells us that MDMA is not safe at the same time as they tell us that "shock therapy" IS safe. What?! Shock therapy "works" by damaging the brain.
The drug war controls the very way that we are allowed to see the world. The Drug War is thus a meta-injustice, not just a handful of bad legal statutes.
Psychiatrists never acknowledge the biggest downside to modern antidepressants: the fact that they turn you into a patient for life. That's demoralizing, especially since the best drugs for depression are outlawed by the government.
I have nothing against science, BTW (altho' I might feel differently after a nuclear war!) I just want scientists to "stay in their lane" and stop pretending to be experts on my own personal mood and consciousness.
The Cabinet of Caligari ('62) ends with a shameless display of psychiatric triumphalism. Happy shock therapy patients waltz freely about a mansion in which the "sick" protagonist has just been "cured" by tranquilizers and psychoanalysis. Did Robert Bloch believe his own script?
Prohibitionists are also responsible for the 100,000-plus killed in the US-inspired Mexican drug war
The most addictive drugs have a bunch of great uses, like treating pain and inspiring great literature. Prohibition causes addiction by making their use as problematic as possible and denying knowledge and choices. It's always wrong to blame drugs.
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hatever we call the drug-war mindset, it exists, and, in my view, is part of a centuries-long pathology of western culture, which clings to the following anti-democratic assumptions:
You have been reading an article entitled, The Drug War Mindset published on April 25, 2023 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)