a message from the Partnership for a Death Free America
by Brian Ballard Quass, the Drug War Philosopher
May 4, 2025
America has succeeded in outlawing the kinds of medicines that inspired the Hindu religion. So far, so good. But there is still more work to do. White American young people are still beset with needless dangers everywhere you look. Fortunately, the Madison Avenue firm of Chicken Little Inc. has just teamed up with the Partnership for a Death Free America 123 to address one of these many bugbears in a new advertising campaign. This week we have released a new public service announcement calling for the outlawing of shopping carts. Click the audio link above to give it a listen! To learn more, visit us on the Web at Partnership for a Death Free America.
It's a category error to say that scientists can tell us if psychoactive drugs "really work." It's like asking Dr. Spock of Star Trek if hugging "really works." ("Hugging is highly illogical, Captain.")
Almost all of today's magazine articles about human psychology should come with the following disclaimer:
"This article was written from the standpoint of Drug War ideology, which holds that outlawed substances can have no beneficial uses whatsoever."
A pharmacologically savvy drug dealer would have no problem getting someone off one drug because they would use the common sense practice of fighting drugs with drugs. But materialist doctors would rather that the patient suffer than to use such psychologically obvious methods.
If there was free speech in America, we would see billboards demanding freedom to use psychoactive substances for religious purposes, or to heal, or to follow-up on the research of William James regarding the nature of human consciousness.
"The Harrison [Narcotics] Act made the drug peddler, and the drug peddler makes drug addicts.” --Robert A. Schless, 1925.
Anyone who has read Pihkal by Alexander Shulgin knows that the drug warriors have it exactly backwards. Drugs are our friends. We need to find safe ways to use them to improve ourselves psychologically, spiritually and mentally.
That's how antidepressants came about: the idea that sadness was a simple problem that science could solve. Instead of being caused by a myriad of interrelated issues, we decided it was all brain chemistry that could be treated with precision. Result? Mass chemical dependency.
Who would have thought back in 1776 that Americans would eventually have to petition their government for the right to even possess a damn mushroom. The Drug War has destroyed America.
For most drugs, dependency is a bug. For Big Pharma antidepressants, it is a feature.
If I have no right to mother nature's bounty, then I surely have no right to manmade guns. If hysterical fearmongering justifies the eradication of the Fourth Amendment, then the Second Amendment should go as well.
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