Why Congressman Kevin Kiley Should be Charged with Murder
by Ballard Quass, the Drug War Philosopher
August 4, 2023
Today, California Congressman Kevin Kiley called for charging fentanyl dealers with murder. The following are my five tweeted replies in response to this demagogue's cynical chest thumping.
Can't even complain to Kevin Kiley. His Congressional page is set up to ignore non-constituents. So apparently he can destroy this country with racist and xenophobic policies and we cannot so much as ask him to desist.
But in his defense, I'm sure he received a nice teddy bear as a kid for saying no to Mother Nature's immoral plant medicines.
I say we give Kevin Kiley a drug test. If we find so much as a trace of caffeine or alcohol, we should confiscate his house, deny him SSA benefits, remove him from the workforce, and debar him from ever holding public office again.
We've got to make sure that our modern-day Torquemadas are morally pure after all.
Better yet, let's put him on trial for the 100,000 deaths that his policies have caused in Mexico over the last 10 years and for the ongoing shootings in inner cities that his prohibition has brought about thanks to the rival drug gangs that it created.
Americans believe scientists when they say that drugs like MDMA are not proven effective. That's false. They are super effective and obviously so. It's just that science holds entheogenic medicines to the standards of reductive materialism. That's unfair and inappropriate.
There are neither "drugs" nor "meds" as those terms are used today. All substances have potential good uses and bad uses. The terms as used today carry value judgements, as in meds good, drugs bad.
The search for SSRIs has always been based on a flawed materialist premise that human consciousness is nothing but a mix of brain chemicals and so depression can be treated medically like any other physical condition.
I, for one, am actually TRYING to recommend drugs like MDMA and psilocybin as substitutes for shock therapy. In fact, I would recommend almost ANY pick-me-up drug as an alternative to knowingly damaging the human brain. That's more than the hateful DEA can say.
"The homicidal drug is booze. There's more violence on a Saturday night in a neighborhood tavern than there has been in the whole 20-year history of LSD." -- Timothy Leary
After over a hundred years of prohibition, America has developed a kind of faux science in which despised substances are completely ignored. This is why Sci Am is making a new argument for shock therapy in 2023, because they ignore all the stuff that OBVIOUSLY cheers one up.
Had we really wanted to "help" users, we would have used the endless godsends of Mother Nature and related synthetics to provide spirit-lifting alternatives to problem use. But no one wanted to treat users as normal humans. They wanted to pathologize and moralize their use.
Many psychedelic fans are still drug warriors at heart. They just think that a nice big exception should be carved out for the drugs that they're suddenly finding useful. Wrong. Substance demonization is wrong, root and branch. It always causes more suffering than freedom.
Drug warriors are full of hate for "users." Many of them make it clear that they want users to die (like Gates and Bennett...). The drug war has weaponized humanity's worst instincts.
The press is having a field day with the Matthew Perry story. They love to have a nice occasion to demonize drugs. I wonder how many decades must pass before they realize that people are killed by ignorance and a corrupted drug supply, not by the drugs themselves.
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