Here's the take-home message from the new book "Whiteout": we crack down on drugs when the victims of prohibition are minorities and we "medicalize" drugs when the victims of prohibition are white.
Here's where I'd usually tell you all the ways that the book I'm reviewing has "missed the point." But "Whiteout" is a very rare book when it comes to drugs: one in which the authors truly have something to teach ME. I believe this all the more after listening to their discussion on YouTube (April 12, 2023). They truly "get it" about prohibition.
The deadpan Robin Kelley is not necessarily being entirely facetious when he calls "Whiteout" the best book of all time. Let's all read it -- multiple times, if possible.
The book "Plants of the Gods" is full of plants and fungi that could help addicts and alcoholics, sometimes in the plant's existing form, sometimes in combinations, sometimes via extracting alkaloids, etc. But drug warriors need addiction to sell their prohibition ideology.
MINORITIES AND DRUGS
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.
Drugs like opium and psychedelics should come with the following warning: "Outlawing of this product may result in inner-city gunfire, civil wars overseas, and rigged elections in which drug warriors win office by throwing minorities in jail."
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You have been reading an article entitled, Whiteout: A Philosophical Review, published on April 9, 2023 on AbolishTheDEA.com. For more information about America's disgraceful drug war, which is anti-patient, anti-minority, anti-scientific, anti-mother nature, imperialistic, the establishment of the Christian Science religion, a violation of the natural law upon which America was founded, and a childish and counterproductive way of looking at the world, one which causes all of the problems that it purports to solve, and then some, visit the drug war philosopher, at abolishTheDEA.com. (philosopher's bio; go to top of this page)
You have been reading an article entitled, Whiteout: A Philosophical Review, published on April 9, 2023 on AbolishTheDEA.com. For more information about America's disgraceful drug war, which is anti-patient, anti-minority, anti-scientific, anti-mother nature, imperialistic, the establishment of the Christian Science religion, a violation of the natural law upon which America was founded, and a childish and counterproductive way of looking at the world, one which causes all of the problems that it purports to solve, and then some, visit the drug war philosopher, at abolishTheDEA.com. (philosopher's bio; go to top of this page)