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!!!"
To oppose the Drug War philosophically, one has to highlight its connections to both materialism and the psychiatric pill mill. And that's a problem, because almost everyone is either a Drug Warrior or a materialist these days and has a vested interest in the continuation of the psychiatric pill mill.
The drug war is the defeatist doctrine that we will never be able to use psychoactive drugs wisely. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy because the government does everything it can to make drug use dangerous.
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.
The UN of today is in an odd position regarding drugs: they want to praise indigenous societies while yet outlawing the drugs that helped create them.
The goal of drug-law reform should be to outlaw prohibition. Anything short of that, and our basic rights will always be subject to veto by fearmongers. Outlawing prohibition would restore the Natural Law of Jefferson, which the DEA scorned in 1987 with its raid on Monticello.
Endless drugs could help with depression. Any drug that inspires and elates is an antidepressant, partly by the effect itself and partly by the mood-elevation caused by anticipation of use (facts which are far too obvious for materialists and drug warriors to understand -- let alone materialist drug warriors!).
"Drugs" is imperialist terminology. In the smug self-righteousness of those who use it, I hear Columbus's disdain for the shroom use of the Taino people and the Spanish disdain for the coca use of the Peruvian Indians.
Drug prohibition began as a racist attempt to prevent so-called "miscegenation." The racist's fear was not that a white woman would use opium or marijuana or cocaine, but that she might actually fall in love with a Chinese, Hispanic or Black person respectively.
America is an "arrestocracy" thanks to the war on drugs.
Check out the 2021 article in Forbes in which a materialist doctor professes to doubt whether laughing gas could help the depressed. Materialists are committed to seeing the world from the POV of Spock from Star Trek.
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