Kid 1: "Let's pretend that we are highly esteemed academics. [attempting ponderous-sounding voice] 'Good day, honorable colleagues, good day!'"
Kid 2: "Yeah, but let's pretend that Mother Nature's psychoactive substances do not exist -- except as traps to ensnare sinners."
Kid 3: "And let's pretend that human beings have no right to the bounty of Mother Nature and that there is nothing wrong with the government telling us which drug-related subjects we can study and which not."
Kid 4: "And let's pretend that drug prohibition has no downsides in the real world."
Kid 5: "Okay, I guess so. But let's retain all of the trappings of certitude and self-satisfaction that are typically associated with pedants, failing to even consciously notice the strictures in question, let alone the fact that those strictures totally bias the playing field as to what we can study and hence what conclusions we are even allowed to DRAW!"
Kid 1: "[in ponderous voice] Okay, then, my esteemed colleagues. Ready, set... PRETEND!!!"
Anyone who has read Pihkal by Alexander Shulgin knows that the drug warriors have it exactly backwards. Drugs are our friends. We need to find safe ways to use them to improve ourselves psychologically, spiritually and mentally.
Trump's lies about America's voting process are typical NAZI and DRUG WAR strategy: raise mendacious doubts about whatever you want to destroy and keep repeating them. It's what Joseph Goebbels called "The Big Lie."
The Drug War brought guns to the "hoods," thereby incentivizing violence in the name of enormous profits. Any site featuring victims of gun violence should therefore be rebranded as a site featuring victims of the drug war.
I've been told by many that I should have seen "my doctor" before withdrawing from Effexor. But, A) My doctor got me hooked on the junk in the first place, and, B) That doctor completely ignores the OBVIOUS benefits of indigenous meds and focuses only on theoretical downsides.
There are times when it is clearly WRONG to deny kids drugs (whatever the law may say). If your child is obsessed with school massacres, he or she is an excellent candidate for using empathogenic meds ASAP -- or do we prefer even school shootings to drug use???
LA Police Chief Daryl Gates said drug users should be summarily executed. William Bennett said drug dealers should be beheaded. These are the Nazi attitudes that the drug war inculcates. This racist and brutal ideology must be wiped out.
Scientists are responsible for endless incarcerations in America. Why? Because they fail to denounce the DEA lie that psychoactive substances have no positive medical uses.
I can think of no greater intrusion than to deny a person autonomy over how they think and feel in life. It is sort of a meta-intrusion, the mother of all anti-democratic intrusions.
Typical materialist protocol. Take all the "wonder" out of the drug and sell it as a one-size-fits all "reductionist" cure for anxiety. Notice that they refer to hallucinations and euphoria as "adverse effects." What next? Communion wine with the religion taken out of it?
Cop and detective shows are loaded with subtle drug war propaganda, including lines like, "She had a history of drug use, so..." The implication being that anyone who uses substances that politicians hate cannot be trusted.
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