and its leaders put on trial for crimes against humanity
by Ballard Quass, the Drug War Philosopher
May 27, 2022
Letter to the US Justice Department.
Your DEA is disgraceful.
They have been lying about godsend plant medicine for almost half a century now.
They have denied godsend medicine to soldiers suffering from PTSD for the last 40 years, by criminalizing MDMA against the advice of their own counsel.
They have sprayed marijuana plants with a known toxin called paraquat, that has been shown to cause Parkinson's Disease.
They have militarized police forces with their drug laws, caused civil wars overseas, and empowered a self-described drug-war Hitler in the Philippines.
They were responsible last year for almost 800 black deaths in Chicago alone, thanks to the gunfire that substance prohibition brings to poor, and poorly educated, neighborhoods.
They have enforced drug laws that have taken millions of minorities off of the voting rolls, thereby ensuring the election of anti-American fascists.
They have made me go my whole life now without godsend medicine, forcing me to rely on the expensive and addictive psychiatric pill mill which was created by Big Pharma thanks to the monopoly that the Drug War gave them on mood medicine.
They violated Natural Law by stomping onto Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in 1987 and confiscating his poppy plants.
They have censored science every bit as much as the Catholic Church censored Galileo.
They have criminalized peace-making drugs like Ecstasy and psilocybin, which could be used therapeutically to end school shootings.
They created the opioid crisis out of whole cloth thanks to their policy of substance prohibition, which incentivizes dealers to sell the most addictive and readily available substances, for which there's an eager market when the DEA has outlawed all safer pharmacological paths to self-transcendence.
They have violated religious liberty by outlawing the same plant medicine that inspired the Vedic-Hindu religion and countless South American and Native American religions.
Your DEA should be abolished and its leaders put on trial for crimes against humanity.
May 28, 2022
Shortly after submitting the above interesting message, our apparently masochistic author sent the following message directly to the DEA via the comment form on the DEA Museum Page. Brian, of course, found the mere existence of that page outrageous, since it paraded plants before the public as if to show us a criminal lineup. Surely even a grade-schooler can see the anti-scientific folly of such brain-dead show trials. At least Stalin's henchmen were "trying" actual people for made-up crimes. Today's Drug Warrior is demonizing plants and fungi.
THE DEA IS A DISGRACE. YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO CRIMINALIZE PLANTS. THOMAS JEFFERSON ROLLED IN HIS GRAVE WHEN YOU STOMPED ONTO MONTICELLO AND CONFISCATED HIS POPPY PLANTS. TEACH ABOUT SUBSTANCES, STOP DEMONIZING THEM. YOU CAUSED 2000+ DEATHS IN CHICAGO ALONE LAST YEAR BY THE VIOLENCE WROUGHT BY PROHIBITION. YOU CREATED WARS IN SOUTH AMERICA. YOU EMPOWERED FASCISTS BY REMOVING MINORITIES FROM THE VOTING ROLLS. YOUR PROHIBITION HAS CREATED THE PSYCHIATRIC PILL MILL, UPON WHICH 1 IN 4 AMERICAN WOMEN ARE DEPENDENT FOR LIFE. YOUR DRUG WAR HAS CAUSED ALL OF THE PROBLEMS THAT IT PURPORTS TO SOLVE, AND THEN SOME.
Champions of indigenous medicines claim that their medicines are not "drugs." But they miss the bigger point: that there are NO drugs in the sense that drug warriors use that term. There are no drugs that have no positive uses whatsoever.
Folks point to the seemingly endless drugs that can be synthesized today and say it's a reason for prohibition. To the contrary, it's the reason why prohibition is madness. It results in an endless game of militaristic whack-a-mole at the expense of democratic freedoms.
The FDA uses reductive materialism to justify and normalize the views of Cortes and Pizarro with respect to entheogenic medicine.
One merely has to look at any issue of Psychology Today to see articles in which the author reckons without the Drug War, in which they pretend that banned substances do not exist and so fail to incorporate any topic-related insights that might otherwise come from user reports.
The Drug War is one big entrapment scheme for poor minorities. Prohibition creates an economy that hugely incentivizes drug dealing, and when the poor fall for the bait, the prohibitionists rush in to arrest them and remove them from the voting rolls.
There are a potentially vast number of non-addictive drugs that could be used strategically in therapy. They elate and "free the tongue" to help talk therapy really work. Even "addictive" drugs can be used non-addictively, prohibitionist propaganda notwithstanding.
Almost all talk about the supposed intractability of things like addiction are exercises in make-believe. The pundits pretend that godsend medicines do not exist, thus normalizing prohibition by implying that it does not limit progress. It's a tacit form of collaboration.
People magazine should be fighting for justice on behalf of the thousands of American young people who are dying on the streets because of the drug war.
Drug use is judged by different standards than any other risky activity in the western world. One death can lead to outrage, even though that death might be statistically insignificant.
People groan about "profiling," but why is profiling even a "thing"? There would be little or no profiling of blacks if the Drug War did not exist.
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