The leader of our current regime in Washington, D.C., is famous for warning terrorists that he will find them and he will kill them. He has invoked some version of that threat multiple times in his so-called foreign policy: in his speeches about Boko Haram, in his comments about ISIS, and most recently in his address to the United Nations in which he threatened (once again) to annihilate Iran. He will find them and he will kill them. So there! Even Lara Trump worked that trope into a convention speech in Detroit in 2024, when she told the MAGA crowd that "We will find you, we will track you down and we will prosecute you to the full extent of the law." She was referring to anyone who so much as THOUGHT about cheating in an election. That latter version, however, does not roll off the tongue as easily as the original phrase which was taken (appropriately enough) from the movie "Taken," starring Liam Neeson. In that 2008 thriller, the star calmly informs his daughter's overseas kidnappers via landline that he is going to find them and he is going to kill them, even if he has to beat astronomical odds in order to do so.
The benefits of outlawed drugs read like the ultimate wish-list for psychiatrists. It's a shame that so many of them are still mounting a rear guard action to defend their psychiatric pill mill -- which demoralizes clients by turning them into lifetime patients.
The prohibitionist motto: "Billions for arrest, not one cent for education."
Only a pathological puritan would say that there's no place in the world for substances that lift your mood, give you endurance, and make you get along with your fellow human being. Drugs may not be everything, but it's masochistic madness to claim that they are nothing at all.
The drug war is is a multi-billion-dollar campaign to enforce the attitude of the Francisco Pizarro's of the world when it comes to non-western medicine. It is the apotheosis of the colonialism that most Americans claim to hate.
The Shipiba have learned to heal human beings physically, psychologically and spiritually with what they call "onanyati," plant allies and guides, such as Bobinsana, which "envelops seekers in a cocoon of love." You know: what the DEA would call "junk."
Using the billions now spent on caging users, we could end the whole phenomena of both physical and psychological addiction by using "drugs to fight drugs." But drug warriors do not want to end addiction, they want to keep using it as an excuse to ban drugs.
The depressed Canadian Claire Brosseau wants the state to kill her. This is the same state that refuses to let her use drugs that could make her want to live. https://abolishthedea.com/drug_use_is_not_worse_than_death
Some outlawed drugs grow new neurons in the brain. To refuse to use them makes us complicit in the dementia of our loved ones!
Americans are far more fearful of psychoactive drugs than is warranted by either anecdote or history. We require 100% safety before we will re-legalize any "drug" -- which is a safety standard that we do not enforce for any other risky activity on earth.
Had the DEA been active in the Punjab and 1500 BCE, there would be no Hindu religion today.
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