- 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.
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Timothy Leary's wife wrote: "We went to Puerto Rico and all we did was take cocaine and read Faust to one another." And there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG with that!!! The drug war is all about scaring us and making illegal drug use as dangerous as possible.
I wonder if Nixon knew what a favor he was doing medical capitalism when he outlawed psychedelics. Those drugs can actually cure things, and there's no money in that.
I know. I'm on SNRIs. But SSRIs and SNRIs are both made with materialist presumptions in mind: that the best way to change people is with a surgical strike at one-size-fits-all chemistry. That's the opposite of the shamanic holism that I favor.
I've been told by many that I should have seen "my doctor" before withdrawing from Effexor. But, A) My doctor got me hooked on the junk in the first place, and, B) That doctor completely ignores the OBVIOUS benefits of indigenous meds and focuses only on theoretical downsides.
When people tell us there's nothing to be gained from using mind-improving drugs, they are embarrassing themselves. Users benefit from such drugs precisely to the extent that they are educated and open-minded. Loudmouth abstainers are telling us that they lack these traits.
Prohibition is wrong root and branch. It seeks to justify the colonial disdain for indigenous healing practices through fearmongering.
We need to push back against the very idea that the FDA is qualified to tell us what works when it comes to psychoactive medicines. Users know these things work. That's what counts. The rest is academic foot dragging.
That's my real problem with SSRIs: If daily drug use and dependency are okay, then there's no logical or truly scientific reason why I can't smoke a nightly opium pipe.
The sick thing is that the DEA is still saying that psilocybin has no medical uses and is addictive. They should be put on trial for crimes against humanity for using such lies to keep people from using the gifts of Mother Nature.
Drug warriors abuse the English language.
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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)
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: