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Vancouver Police Seek to Eradicate Safe Use

open letter to the Vancouver Police Department

by Brian Ballard Quass, the Drug War Philosopher

October 27, 2023



The following is my emailed complaint to the Vancouver Police Department regarding the contents of their press release entitled "VPD executes search warrants in Downtown Eastside drug investigation."

The Drug War is insane. By its anti-scientific logic, you now apparently feel compelled to PREVENT SAFE USE by serving warrants on those guilty of the crime of trying to keep substance users ALIVE!

PLEASE: End the hateful War on Drugs and stop persecuting those who try to save lives.

THERE WAS NO OPIOID CRISIS WHEN OPIUM WAS LEGAL. THE PROBLEM IS CAUSED BY PROHIBITION, WHICH ENSURES A DUBIOUS DRUG SUPPLY AND REFUSES TO EDUCATE USERS ABOUT SAFE USE.


What You Can SHOULD Do



Sign the petition. Tell the VPD to stop punishing safe use! Or contact the Vancouver Police Department directly at vpd@vpd.ca.










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Ten Tweets

against the hateful war on US




The U.S. Congress considered the following to be a scientific fact back in 1924: "A person taking narcotics regularly impedes evolutionary progress and tends to degenerate backwards toward the brute." -- Richmond Hobson

The drug war is being used as a wrecking ball to destroy democratic freedoms. It has destroyed the 4th amendment and freedom of religion and given the police the right to confiscate the property of peaceful and productive citizens.

An Englishman's home is his castle. An American's home is a bouncy castle for the DEA.

The drug war bans human progress by deciding that hundreds of drugs are trash without even trying to find positive uses for them. Yet scientists continue to research and write as if prohibition does not exist, that's how cowed they are by drug laws.

Google founders used to enthuse about the power of free speech, but Google is actively shutting down videos that tell us how to grow mushrooms -- MUSHROOMS, for God's sake. End the drug war and this hateful censorship of a free people.

The so-called opiate crisis is really a drug prohibition crisis.

I never said that getting off SSRIs should be done without supervision. If you're on Twitter for medical advice, you're in the wrong place.

If America cannot exist without outlawing drugs, then there is something wrong with America, not with drugs.

Two weeks ago, a guy told me that most psychiatrists believe ECT is great. I thought he was joking! I've since come to realize that he was telling the truth: that is just how screwed up the healthcare system is today thanks to drug war ideology and purblind materialism.

News flash: certain mushrooms can help you improve your life! It's the biggest story in the history of mycology! And yet you wouldn't know it from visiting the websites of most mushroom clubs.


Click here to see All Tweets against the hateful War on Us






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