How to create a billion-dollar industry in three easy steps
by Ballard Quass, the Drug War Philosopher
December 5, 2022
Ban laudanum and all other drugs with which human beings have ever or could ever 'self-medicate'
List all of the psychological problems that result from this ban as discrete illnesses in a Diagnostic Statistical Manual
Treat these illnesses with expensive and inadequate medicines, preferably those that cause chemical dependency
Congratulations. You have created a new industry. It's called psychiatry!
Prohibition yanked laudanum from our medicine cabinets, ostensibly to prevent excess drug use. And where has that gotten us today? 80 million Americans (1 in every 4) now take psychiatric drugs every day of their life. (source: Citizens Commission on Human Rights International)
Author's Follow-up: December 5, 2022
Follow-up steps:
Tell the world that drugs not prescribed by psychiatrists are just "crutches."
Teach the world that "self-medicating" is the worst possible medical sin.
If someone uses non-psychiatric drugs, tell them that they are doing so to run away from hidden pain.
Tell troublesome patients that they have a medical duty to keep taking their "meds"
Author's Follow-up: November 14, 2023
RIGHT-WINGERS: Note that the preceding formulas can also help you keep the citizen's mind off of social problems by blaming all such problems on "drugs." No more need to invest in pesky programs like education and inner-city infrastructure. Just invoke the eternal problem of "drugs" and you can jail the adults whom you failed to properly educate as kids, thereby reaping the rewards of your racism without being held accountable for it.
We should no more arrest drug users than we arrest people for climbing sheer rock faces or for driving a car.
Scientists are not the experts on psychoactive medicines. The experts are painters and artists and spiritualists -- and anyone else who simply wants to be all they can be in life. Scientists understand nothing of such goals and aspirations.
Of course, prohibitionists will immediately remind me that we're all children when it comes to drugs, and can never -- but never -- use them wisely. That's like saying that we could never ride horses wisely. Or mountain climb. Or skateboard.
"The Legislature deliberately determines to distrust the very people who are legally responsible for the physical well-being of the nation, and puts them under the thumb of the police, as if they were potential criminals."
-- Aleister Crowley on drug laws
If America cannot exist without outlawing drugs, then there is something wrong with America, not with drugs.
The goal of drug-law reform should be to outlaw prohibition. Anything short of that, and our basic rights will always be subject to veto by fearmongers. Outlawing prohibition would restore the Natural Law of Jefferson, which the DEA scorned in 1987 with its raid on Monticello.
Until we get rid of all these obstacles to safe and informed use, it's presumptuous to explain problematic drug use with theories about addiction. Drug warriors are rigging the deck in favor of problematic use. They refuse to even TEACH non-problematic use.
Addiction thrives BECAUSE of prohibition, which limits drug choice and discourages education about psychoactive substances and how to use them wisely.
Psychedelics and entheogens should be freely available to all dementia patients. These medicines can increase neuronal plasticity and even grow new neurons. Besides, they can inspire and elate -- or do we puritans feel that our loved ones have no right to peace of mind?
When folks banned opium, they did not just ban a drug: they banned the philosophical and artistic insights that the drug has been known to inspire in writers like Poe, Lovecraft and De Quincey.
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You have been reading an article entitled, The Origins of Modern Psychiatry: How to create a billion-dollar industry in three easy steps, published on December 5, 2022 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)
