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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: Forbes Magazine's Laughable Article about Nitrous Oxide
2: The life and times of the Drug War Philosopher
3: Oregon's Incoherent Drug Policy
4: Stigmatize THIS
5: Breaking News: Scientists Realize That Marijuana may not be Evil Incarnate After All!
6: Drug War Radio
7: Replacing Psychiatry with Pharmacologically Savvy Shamanism
8: The Truth About Opium by William H. Brereton
9: Coca Wine
10: How the US Preventive Services Task Force Drums Up Business for Big Pharma



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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A law proposed in Colorado in February 2024 would have criminalized positive talk about drugs online. What? The world is on the brink of nuclear war because of hate-driven politics, and I can be arrested for singing the praises of empathogens?
I know. I'm on SNRIs. But SSRIs and SNRIs are both made with materialist presumptions in mind: that the best way to change people is with a surgical strike at one-size-fits-all chemistry. That's the opposite of the shamanic holism that I favor.
Unfortunately, the prohibitionist motto is: "Billions for arrest, not one cent for education." To the contrary, drug warriors are ideologically committed to withholding the truth about drugs from users.
There's more than set and setting: there's fundamental beliefs about the meaning of life and about why mother nature herself is full of psychoactive substances. Tribal peoples associate some drugs with actual sentient entities -- that is far beyond "set and setting."
I, for one, am actually TRYING to recommend drugs like MDMA and psilocybin as substitutes for shock therapy. In fact, I would recommend almost ANY pick-me-up drug as an alternative to knowingly damaging the human brain. That's more than the hateful DEA can say.
In 1886, coca enthusiast JJ Tschudi referred to prohibitionists as 'kickers.' He wrote: "If we were to listen to these kickers, most of us would die of hunger, for the reason that nearly everything we eat or drink has fallen under their ban."
Prohibitionists have blood on their hands. People do not naturally die in the tens of thousands from opioid use, notwithstanding the lies of 19th-century missionaries in China. It takes bad drug policy to accomplish that.
Both physical and psychological addiction can be successfully fought when we relegalize the pharmacopoeia and start to fight drugs with drugs. But prohibitionists do not want to end addiction, they want to scare us with it.
I looked up the company: it's all about the damn stock market and money. The FDA outlaws LSD until we remove all the euphoria and the visions. That's ideology, not science. Just relegalize drugs and stop telling me how much ecstasy and insight I can have in my life!!
The front page of every mycology club page should feature a protest of drug laws that make the study of mycology illegal in the case of certain shrooms. But no one protests. Their silence makes them drug war collaborators because it serves to normalize prohibition.
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