I was just about to call it quits for the day, when I made the mistake of checking my Twitter feed. Someone had taken exception to my idea of giving godsend medicines to the elderly. They claimed that the elderly are already given way too many drugs.
Sure, that latter statement is true, but to use that as a reason for not using drugs at all is absurd.
Anyone who claims that "drugs" are the problem has been thoroughly brainwashed by the War on Drugs. "Drugs" is not a scientific term -- it's a political term as used today, meaning "substances that are not really needed and should be avoided" -- as distinguished from the equally make-believe category called "meds," meaning "substances that have the blessings of materialist science and that it is our actual duty to use as good citizens.1"
I've lived this stuff over the last ten years with my mother and I resent when people try to tell me what would have worked for my mother and what would have not worked. I was there. I lived it. And the fact that Big Pharma pummeled her with one set of drugs tells us absolutely nothing about drugs themselves but rather about the failures of Big Pharma and American drug policy in general -- most importantly, the absurd idea that materialist doctors are specialists when it comes to mood and mentation (as opposed to shamans and preachers and other empaths).
Alexander Shulgin2 designed non-addictive drugs that helped him feel that he was literally "touched by God"... and yet you're going to sit back and tell me that there are no drugs out there that could have kept my mother from suffering unnecessarily?
It hurts to know that people feel this way, because they seem to be good people, generally speaking. They just have truly come to believe that "drugs" are a problem. In short, they have been brainwashed by a lifetime of propaganda -- above all, the total censorship in the States of all positive talk about psychoactive substances.
Anyway, I'm going to kick off now in spite of that irritating tweet, but I just have to say it loud and clear here:
The fact that materialist doctors over-prescribe Big Pharma drugs tells us nothing about drugs -- but rather about drug laws and social policy.
It's as if someone were to receive a car model kit containing too many parts and drew the conclusion that the best kit should have no parts whatsoever.
No, the best kit would have parts that actually worked and were needed.
Yes, Big Pharma is profiting from bedside over-prescribing -- but that is entirely BECAUSE of the Drug War which gives them a monopoly on mood and mind medicine -- and you can bet that much of that will be addictive for the simple reason that the Drug War has outlawed everything that is not.
Yet, I'm accused of not being objective?
Is the FDA objective about costs and benefits when it fails to approve MDMA for trifles while disregarding the fact that it can help end school shootings and bring the world together as one -- as it did in the 90s with the Summer of Love in the UK?
That's not starry-eyed dreaming -- that's just a reality that materialist haters and Christian Scientists do not want to see. They would rather have death and dying than the use of "drugs."
What hateful nonsense.
And yet I'm told I'm not objective? Is the FDA objective when they decide that MDMA cannot be used safely -- while they yet approve of brain-damaging shock therapy and Big Pharma meds whose side effects include death itself 34?
That's not objective. That's not even scientific. It's just plain hateful Christian Science and kowtowing to the vested interests of Big Pharma 56 .
Author's Follow-up: October 26, 2024
It's rich when Americans outlaw drugs and then insist that those drugs did not have much to offer in any case. Aren't you happy with prohibition? Do you have to rub it in by making derisive claims that cannot even be verified thanks to your hateful Drug War? Usage reports for psilocybin, MDMA 7 and ayahuasca (to name a few persecuted holistic medicines) are full of praise -- not from folks like myself but from the folks who actually used them.
So typical that this would not count for anything with the Drug Warrior. They don't want us to just "feel good." They want us to "REALLY" feel good -- that is, with the blessing of materialist science. This is why we're told that laughing gas 8 cannot help the depressed -- because materialist science always ignores all the OBVIOUS benefits and looks under a microscope instead9. This is just the colonialization of mind medicine and a way to disguise the anti-indigenous mindsets of the Francisco Pizarros of the world.
Here are a couple of tweets that I cranked out on this topic:
It's rich when Americans outlaw drugs and then insist that those drugs did not have much to offer in any case. It's like I took away your car and then told you that car ownership was overrated.
How would we even KNOW that outlawed drugs have no positive uses? We first have to incorporate them in a sane, empathic and creative way to find that out, and the Drug War makes such a sensible approach absolutely impossible.
We should be encouraging certain drug use by the elderly. Many Indigenous drugs have been shown to grow new neurons and increase neural connectivity -- to refuse to use them makes us complicit in the dementia of our loved ones!
Sure, it's an interesting question: What are the limits of benefits that we can derive from outlawed medicines? But we have no idea yet what that limit is. And there is plenty of reason for optimism, not based on starry-eyed dreaming but on simple facts. The Hindu religion was inspired by a "drug" -- Ecstasy brought unprecedented peace, love and understanding to the British dance floors in the 1990s (until the police cracked down on Ecstasy, dancers switched to alcohol, and special forces troops were suddenly required to keep the peace). Then there are endless anecdotal reports of lives that have been rebooted with the help of drugs like psilocybin and ayahuasca.
If anyone is being NON-objective, it is the Drug Warrior and agencies like the FDA, which refuse to recognize any GLARINGLY OBVIOUS BENEFITS of psychoactive drugs. Even cocaine 1011 has glaringly obvious benefits -- and yet the FDA never takes benefits into account -- or if they do, they have a very skewed value system, according to which one single potential downside for one demographic means a substance cannot be used by anyone, ever, at any dose, for any reason. It's hard to think of a more anti-patient, anti-scientific and anti-objective approach to deciding about drugs. This is why it was folly to outlaw drugs in the first place: because every substance has downsides in some situations. The question is, are those downsides worth it considering the benefits -- and that's a question that the FDA cannot answer. They have no special knowledge of human hopes and dreams, of our desire for self-transcendence in life. Had they been around in the Vedic valley 3,500 years ago, there would be no Hindu religion today, because they surely would have found some potential problem with the use of Soma.
Finally, it seems bizarre and even evil to hate on drugs that could help us avoid armageddon 12 . In the decade of the sixties, when America was increasingly blaming drugs for social problems, the US was almost NUKED TWICE -- once by Russia and once by our stumblebum Air Force! And yet the Drug Warrior refuses to admit that there are any benefits to substances that inspire peaceful coexistence? Please!
Author's Follow-up:
September 13, 2025
The drug companies want to get a piece of the action when it comes to human suffering. They know that they would be cut out of the loop if we had access to plant medicine like opium 13 and coca. That is why we have been taught to hate those drugs. That's why we have so many drugs today in nursing homes -- because the panaceas have been outlawed -- and so materialist medicine is left to devise expensive pharmaceutical "cures" for all the problems that it stopped us from treating with the godsend medicines of Mother Nature.
Check out the conversations that I have had so far with the movers and shakers in the drug-war game -- or rather that I have TRIED to have. Actually, most of these people have failed to respond to my calls to parlay, but that need not stop you from reading MY side of these would-be chats.
I don't know what's worse, being ignored entirely or being answered with a simple "Thank you" or "I'll think about it." One writes thousands of words to raise questions that no one else is discussing and they are received and dismissed with a "Thank you." So much for discussion, so much for give-and-take. It's just plain considered bad manners these days to talk honestly about drugs. Academia is living in a fantasy world in which drugs are ignored and/or demonized -- and they are in no hurry to face reality. And so I am considered a troublemaker. This is understandable, of course. One can support gay rights, feminism, and LGBTQ+ today without raising collegiate hackles, but should one dare to talk honestly about drugs, they are exiled from the public commons.
Somebody needs to keep pointing out the sad truth about today's censored academia and how this self-censorship is but one of the many unacknowledged consequences of the drug war ideology of substance demonization.
Addiction was not a big thing until the drug war. It's now the boogie-man with which drug warriors scare us into giving up our freedoms. But getting obsessed on one single drug is natural in the age of choice-limiting prohibition.
The prohibitionist motto is: "Billions for arrest, not one cent for education."
Now the US is bashing the Honduran president for working with "drug cartels." Why don't we just be honest and say why we're REALLY upset with the guy? Drugs is just the excuse, as always, now what's the real reason? Stop using the drug war to disguise American foreign policy.
Americans love to blame drugs for all their problems. Young people were not dying in the streets when opiates were legal. The prohibition mindset is the problem, not drugs.
Prohibitionists have the same M O they've had for the last 100+ years: blame drugs for everything. Being a drug warrior is never having the decency to say you're sorry -- not to Mexicans, not to inner-city crime victims, not to patients who go without adequate pain relief...
High suicide rates? What a poser! Gee, I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that the US has outlawed all substances that elate and inspire???
"They have called thee Soma-lover: here is the pressed juice. Drink thereof for rapture." -Rig Veda
(There would be no Hindu religion today had the drug war been in effect in the Punjab 3,500 years ago.)
I can't believe that no one at UVA is bothered by the DEA's 1987 raid on Monticello. It was, after all, a sort of coup against the Natural Law upon which Jefferson had founded America, asserting as it did the government's right to outlaw Mother Nature.
Freud found that cocaine CURED most people's depression and he "got off it" without trouble. I'm on a Big Pharma antidepressant that has a 95% recidivism rate for long-term users. Drug prohibition is insane and a crime against humanity.
The Drug War has turned America into the world's first "Indignocracy," where our most basic rights can be vetoed by a misinformed public. That's how scheming racist politicians put an end to the 4th amendment to the US Constitution.
Addiction was not a big thing until the drug war. It's now the boogie-man with which drug warriors scare us into giving up our freedoms. But getting obsessed on one single drug is natural in the age of choice-limiting prohibition.
