Saying things like 'Fentanyl kills' is philosophically equivalent to saying 'Fire bad'. Both statements would have us fear dangerous substances rather than to learn how to use them wisely for the benefit of human beings.
Americans have been taught to superstitiously believe that drugs are bad. Drugs are not bad or good. They are inanimate objects. Their widespread misuse tells us something about society, not about drugs.
Americans completely ignore the role of prohibition in destroying inner cities.
No organization like the DEA belongs in a free country: it is an organization designed to harass, arrest and/or kill people who dare to take care of their own health.
Freud knew that cocaine was a godsend for the depressed. But doctors saw it as a threat to their bottom line and so they studied only the rare misuse of the drug.
This is the state of healthcare in the U.S.: We prefer to damage the brain of the depressed rather than let them use substances that could inspire them with joy and purpose.
Here is a billboard you might see in a free country in which the narrative is not controlled by conglomerate media.
Indiscriminate drug testing is the greatest violation of the Fourth Amendment imaginable, predicated on the uniquely western idea that drugs are an existential threat rather than a potential godsend.
The world is on the brink of nuclear annihilation, yet none of our politicians see any benefits in drugs that help people like each other.
Don't worry, there's also a Life Card that gives you $20,000 for renouncing godsend medicines!
Here's hoping you have a Drug-War Free Valentine's Day!
Americans claim to hate drugs, and yet 1 in 4 American women are dependent on Big Pharma drugs for life, and we consider them to be good patients!
Drug testing is the extra-judicial enforcement of Christian Science sharia, designed to remove Christian Science heretics from the workforce.
Westerners not only disapprove of drugs used by indigenous people for millennial, but westerners are trying to eradicate such drugs -- especially coca -- from the face of the Earth, which is a new low for colonialism.
Ben Franklin loved the inspirational power of opium! Today he would be in a rehab group -- er, an indoctrination camp, I mean -- learning to hate godsend medicines like the rest of us.
Here's a political cartoon that the New Yorker magazine would not touch with a 10-foot drug-testing kit.
Americans shiver at the thought of Sharia law, never realizing that they themselves live under just such restrictions with regard to psychoactive medicines.
Drug prohibition has destroyed minority communities around the world by introducing guns and violence to poor neighborhoods.
Drug prohibition is an imperialistic policy. It privileges alcohol over natural medicines that indigenous people have used for human benefit for millennia. Drug warriors have the same hateful outlook as the Conquistadors.
Schedule 1 Laundry Detergent -- because it's not enough to pass your drug test anymore, you need to pass it with flying colors!
Drug warriors are blind not only to all the positive uses for drugs but to all the negative effects of drug prohibition. Someday they will finally be held accountable for turning poor and minority communities into rubble.
Don't think your life has been censored? Look for books about wise and beneficial drug use in your local library!
The government is spending billions of dollars to encourage Americans to fear drugs rather than to understand them and use them as wisely as possible for human benefit.
No wonder Drug Warriors trash plant medicine with the pejorative epithet of 'drugs' -- they don't want people realizing that they have lost the fundamental right to take care of their own health with the bounty of Mother Nature.
Americans have been taught to ignore the fact that cocaine is a cure for depression and to assume that one must be dependent upon Big Pharma meds for life in order to 'scientifically' treat their 'real problems.'
Walmart stocks holiday games that encourage irresponsible drinking, like Chug of War, Do or Drink, and Buzzed, and yet we're told we should not glorify the use of drugs that have been considered godsends in the past.
Self-medicating is just a pejorative term for taking care of one's own psychological health. Doctors demonize the practice for obvious financial reasons.
The death in 1994 of 75-year-old Rev. Accelyne Williams thanks to a SWAT raid at the wrong address should have been a wake-up call about the inhumanity of drug law -- but it's business as usual for unrepentant prohibitionists.
James told us to study altered states with substances like nitrous oxide to learn about reality, but the FDA wants it outlawed. The DWP (Brian Q) is the only philosopher who protested outlawing N20 on behalf of academic freedom.
Ecstasy brought about UNPRECEDENTED peace to British dance floors in the 1990s. Instead of praising the drug, however, MP's cracked down on it, after which the dance floors erupted with alcohol-fueled violence.
Conservatives and gun lovers demand to be free from government -- except they want the government to control their access to pain relief and their ability to relax and concentrate, etc. etc. etc.
Ronald Reagan's DEA raided Thomas Jefferson's Monticello estate in 1987, with the help of the Jefferson Foundation! The garden-loving Jefferson would have been horrified that American government had devolved into a plant-demonizing republic!
Most hospitals in India no longer carry morphine thanks to the Drug War. Fearmonger Americans have so demonized the drug that it is too expensive and difficult to administer, even to children in hospice care.
Drug prohibition turns depressed Americans into demoralized wards of the healthcare state by shunting them off onto dependence-causing meds.
Detox is the modern equivalent of bloodletting. We torture the patient because we refuse to give them drugs that would cheer them up and help them, psychologically speaking, to get off unwanted substances.
Americans have been taught to hate Mother Nature's plant medicines and to trust in Big Pharma 'meds' instead, many of which turn the depressed into patients for life with extreme chemical dependency.
There is nothing wrong with crutches. Hubristic materialist science set out to 'cure' human sadness, and what is the result? 1 in 4 American women are now dependent on Big Pharma drugs for life.
Signs that read Drug Free Zone are proselytizing on behalf of the drug-hating religion of Christian Science. We should not want to be free of drugs in cases where they could be useful -- which are potentially legion in a sane world.
Do you have what it takes to support a social policy that has destroyed inner cities and forced pain patients and the depressed to go without godsend medicine? Help us enforce Drug War sharia in the United States!
Just a quick reminder to get rid of America's Gestapo -- when you get the chance, of course.
For Discussion: How do Drug Warriors use the power of the media to make us 'feel' a certain way about the substances that they demonize with the pejorative epithet of 'drugs'?
Americans are childish about drugs. We blame our problems on inanimate objects and burn other countries' plants so that we can feel safe at home. We need to grow up and learn to use nature's bounty wisely for human benefit.
The DEA requires drug researchers to handle drugs like MDMA as if they were fissionable material.
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