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Top Ten Drug War Essays

by Ballard Quass, the Drug War Philosopher


January 16, 2024

asey "Lower-Case" Kasem here with America's top 10 Drug War essays. Today's top 10 is dedicated to the pain patients who go without blessed relief thanks to the anti-scientific fearmongering of racist politicians.




1: THE ANTI DRUG WAR BLOG
2: My New Clinical Trial in the Sacred Valley of Peru
3: What's Drugs Got to Do With It?
4: You Can't Handle the Truth!
5: You Can't Handle the Truth!
6: What Can the Chemical Hold?
7: Why CBS 19 should stop supporting the Drug War
8: What Terence McKenna Got Wrong About Drugs
9: Addiction
10: Open Letter to Nathan at TheDEA.org
11: Open Letter to Nathan at TheDEA.org
12: Introduction to the Drug War Philosopher Website at AbolishTheDEA.com
13: How the Monticello Foundation betrayed Jefferson's Legacy in 1987
14: Schopenhauer and Drugs
15: Open letter to Professor Troy Glover at Waterloo University
16: How the Drug War Blinds us to Godsend Medicine
17: Replacing Psychiatry with Pharmacologically Savvy Shamanism
18: Whiteout
19: Open Letter to Margo Margaritoff
20: Drug Laws as the Punishment of 'Pre-Crime'



Next essay: The Christian Presuppositions of the Drug War and Why They're Important
Previous essay: The Muddled Metaphysics of the Drug War

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Some Tweets against the hateful war on drugs

According to Donald Trump's view of life, Jesus Christ was a chump. We should hate our enemies, not love them.
As such, "we" are important. The sun is just a chaos of particles that "we" have selected out of the rest of the raw data and declared "This we shall call the sun!" "We" make this universe. Consciousness is fundamental.
The government makes psychoactive drug approval as slow as possible by insisting that drugs be studied in relation to one single board-certified "illness." But the main benefits of such drugs are holistic in nature. Science should butt out if it can't recognize that fact.
The existence of a handful of bad outcomes of drug use does not justify substance prohibition... any more than the existence of drunkards justifies a call for liquor prohibition. Instead, we need to teach safe use and offer a wide choice of uncontaminated psychoactive drugs.
Addiction thrives BECAUSE of prohibition, which limits drug choice and discourages education about psychoactive substances and how to use them wisely.
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.
Pundits have been sniffing about the "smell" of Detroit lately. Sounds racist -- especially since such comments tend to come from drug warriors, the guys who ruined Detroit in the first place (you know, with drug laws that incentivized profit-seeking violence as a means of escaping poverty).
We know that anticipation and mental focus and relaxation have positive benefits -- but if these traits ae facilitated by "drugs," then we pretend that these same benefits somehow are no longer "real." This is a metaphysical bias, not a logical deduction.
What are drug dealers doing, after all? Only selling substances that people want and have always had a right to, until racist politicians came along and decided government had the right to ration out pain relief and mystical experience.
Did the Vedic People have a substance disorder because they wanted to drink enough soma to see religious realities?
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You have been reading an article entitled, published on January 16, 2024 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)