by Freddie and the Fearmongers, lyrics by the Drug War Philosopher, music with just a tiny bit of help from AI
VERSE 1: The Swat Team's back and you're gonna be sorry
Hey, hey, hey, hey, the Swat Team's back
They're coming down the street in a ten-ton lorry
Hey, hey, hey, hey, the Swat Team's back
CHORUS: Yeah, the Swat Team's back
They've reconnoitered in your cul-de-sac
Yeah, they're gonna pound your door
And tell you to get down on the blank blank floor
VERSE 2: The Swat Team's back and they're locked and loaded
Hey, hey, hey, hey, the Swat Team's back
The U.S. constitution has just exploded
Hey, hey, hey, hey, the Swat Team's back
CHORUS: Yeah, you better hide your vegetation
Or there's gonna be a confrontation
Mother Nature's illegal, you see
So much for living in the land of the free
VERSE 3: The Swat Team's back and they've shot your mother
Hey, hey, hey, hey, the Swat Team's back
They're coming back around to eliminate your brother
Hey, hey, hey, hey, the Swat Team's back
CHORUS: Yeah, you better hide your new prescription
Or they're gonna have a fit conniption
Replace them with your bottle of meds
So they can pass muster with the braindead feds
VERSE 4: Hey, hey, the Swat Team's here and you better face it
Hey, hey, hey, hey, the Swat Team's back
Gonna decorate your leg with an ankle bracelet
Hey, hey, hey, hey, the Swat Team's back
CHORUS: Yeah, the Swat Team's ready
They're gonna shoot ya, Freddy
If you stand up for your right to heal
They're gonna charge you with intent to deal
VERSE 5: The Swat Team's back, better hide your plants
Hey, hey, hey, hey, the Swat Team's back
They're swarming up your driveway like fire ants
Hey, hey, hey, hey, the Swat Team's back
CHORUS: Yeah, the Swat Team's back
They've reconnoitered in your cul-de-sac
Yeah, they're gonna pound your door
And tell you to get down on the blank blank floor
Yeah, you better hide your vegetation
Or there's gonna be a confrontation
Mother Nature's illegal, you see
So much for living in the land of the free
The term "hard" is just our modern term for the kinds of drugs that doctors of yore used to call panaceas
The main form of drug war propaganda is censorship. That's why most Americans cannot imagine any positive uses for psychoactive substances, because the media and the government won't allow that.
There will always be people who don't use drugs wisely, just as there are car drivers who don't drive wisely, and rock climbers who fall to their death. America needs to grow up and accept this, while ending prohibition and teaching safe use.
News flash: certain mushrooms can help you improve your life! It's the biggest story in the history of mycology! And yet you wouldn't know it from visiting the websites of most mushroom clubs.
Rick Strassman isn't sure that DMT should be legal. Really?! Does he not realize how dangerous it is to chemically extract DMT from plants? In the name of safety, prohibitionists have encouraged dangerous ignorance and turned local police into busybody Nazis.
Why don't those politicians understand what hateful colonialism they are practicing? Psychedelics have been used for millennia by the tribes that the west has conquered -- now we won't even let folks talk honestly about such indigenous medicines.
If media were free in America, you'd see documentaries about people using drugs wisely for a wide variety of praiseworthy purposes.
Malcolm X sensed an important truth about drugs: the fact that it was always a self-interested category error for Americans to place medical doctors in charge of mind and mood medicine.
We've got to take the fight TO the drug warriors by starting to hold them legally responsible for having spread "Big Lies" about "drugs." Anyone involved in producing the "brain frying" PSA of the 1980s should be put on trial for willfully spreading a toxic lie.
Two of the biggest promoters of the psychedelic renaissance shuffle their feet when you ask them about substance prohibition. Michael Pollan and Rick Strassman just don't get it: prohibition kills.
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