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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: How Drug Prohibition Causes Relapses
2: My Conversation with Michael Pollan
3: America's Anti-scientific Standards for Psychotherapeutic Medicine
4: Listening to Thomas Szasz
5: Censored Bookstores in the Age of the Drug War
6: The One Thing that Timothy Leary Got Wrong
7: Another Drug-Related Book that Pisses Me Off
8: How the West turned the world into a police state
9: Listening to the Drug War
10: Why the Drugs Reddit should not exist
11: Our Minds, Ourselves
12: How Ketamine Advocates Reckon without the Drug War
13: The Therapeutic Value of Anticipation
14: The Drug War Philosopher of the United States of America -- session 3
15: The Make-Believe World of Mental Health in the Age of the Drug War
16: The common sense way to get off of antidepressants
17: How Drug Prohibition Leads to Excessive Drinking and Smoking
18: The Truth About Opium by William H. Brereton
19: Critique of the Philosophy of Happiness
20: How Bernardo Kastrup reckons without the drug war



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

"Now, now, Sherlock, that coca preparation is not helping you a jot. Why can't you get 'high on sunshine,' like good old Watson here?" To which Sherlock replies: "But my good fellow, then I would no longer BE Sherlock Holmes."
Americans believe scientists when they say that drugs like MDMA are not proven effective. That's false. They are super effective and obviously so. It's just that science holds entheogenic medicines to the standards of reductive materialism. That's unfair and inappropriate.
I can't believe that no one at UVA is bothered by the DEA's 1987 raid on Monticello. It was, after all, a sort of coup against the Natural Law upon which Jefferson had founded America, asserting as it did the government's right to outlaw Mother Nature.
Drugs are not the enemy, ignorance is -- the ignorance that the Drug War encourages by teaching us to fear drugs rather than to understand them.
Musk and co. want to make us more robot-like with AI, when they should be trying to make us more human-like with sacred medicine. Only humans can gain creativity from plant medicine. All AI can do is harvest the knowledge that eventually results from that creativity.
I have nothing against science, BTW (altho' I might feel differently after a nuclear war!) I just want scientists to "stay in their lane" and stop pretending to be experts on my own personal mood and consciousness.
NOW is the time for entheogens -- not (as Strassman and Pollan seem to think) at some future date when materialists have finally wrapped their minds around the potential usefulness of drugs that experientially teach compassion.
History is no friend of drug prohibition, which is why the question of why we have the laws which we do is almost never addressed in the stream of government sponsored anti-drug messages which has permeated public culture for two generations." --Emperors of Dreams, Mike Jay
Materialists are always trying to outdo each other in describing the insignificance of humankind. Crick at least said we were "a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules." Musk downsizes us further to one single microbe. He wins!
Drug prohibition is superstitious idiocy. It is based on the following crazy idea: that a substance that can be misused by a white young person at one dose for one reason must not be used by anybody at any dose for any reason.
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