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Fried Brains Over Easy: another Drug War Comedy Routine

live from the DEA Lounge

by Brian Ballard Quass, the Drug War Philosopher





April 9, 2025



Click the audio link above to listen to the latest comedy routine 1 live from the DEA Lounge, featuring Adderall Zoloft and Paxil Buspar!


ADDERALL: Welcome to the DEA Lounge. My name is Adderall Zoloft.

PAXIL: And I'm Paxil Buspar.

ADDERALL: And we are here tonight to encourage you to just say no to godsend medicines.

PAXIL: That's right, Adderall.

ADDERALL: Say, Paxil, I hear that a majority of psychiatrists would like to receive electroshock therapy if they ever became severely depressed.

PAXIL: You're kidding me. You mean that they would rather have their brains damaged than to use the kinds of medicines that have inspired entire religions?

ADDERALL: Apparently so, Paxil.

PAXIL: That is hard to believe after you've read quotes about ecstatic drug use in books like "Pihkal" by Alexander Shulgin.

ADDERALL: What quotes, Paxil?

PAXIL: Quotes like these, Adderall.


"Excellent feelings. Tremendous opening of insights and understanding. A real awakening."

"This feels marvelous, and a whole new way to be much more relaxed, accepting, being in the moment. No more axes to grind. I can be free."

"I felt an enriched emotional affect, a comfortable and good feeling, and easy sleeping, with colorful and important dreams."


ADDERALL: Yeah. And now let's listen to a quote from someone who has just had electroshock therapy.

"Er... um... I feel... eeee.... shh... I'm sorry, what was the question again?




ADDERALL: That's all for now. I'm Adderall Zoloft.

PAXIL: And I'm Paxil Buspar.

ADDERALL: And we'll be here till Thursday -- or until the DEA figures out that we hate its guts, whichever comes first.

ANNOUNCER: This has been a presentation of the Drug War Philosopher @ abolishthedea.com, who reminds you that the Hindu religion was inspired by the use of a drug that inspired and elated, from which it follows that drug prohibition is the outlawing of religion. This is Goodman Johnny speaking. Stay tuned for more comic sendups of America's illogical, racist and superstitious Drug War, right here on abolishthedea.com.



Author's Follow-up:

April 25, 2025

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Alfred North Whitehead wrote the following observation in "The Concept of Nature":

"The substantial reason for rejecting a philosophical theory is the 'absurdum' to which it reduces us."


Clearly, we need to reject materialism 2 -- at least in terms of its pretentions in the field of psychology. That ideology has led to the most absurd result imaginable: namely, the utter blindness of materialists to common sense -- to the extent that they would sacrifice their own gray matter on the altar of their faith in reductionist science.

Of course, we can ascribe at least some of the absurdity to the Drug War propaganda of censorship, which has censored all talk of positive drug use from our lives. But I never realized how successful that propaganda has been before I started encountering this conviction on the part of psychiatrists that brain damage was better than drug use.

Shock therapy is simply our modern version of blood letting. It is performed based on dogmatic assumptions and has nothing to do with common sense or even sanity.

Have these masochist psychiatrists never heard of Alexander Shulgin, or of the Hindu religion for that matter, or of the "quarterly carouses" of opium 3 using poets in the 19th century? Do they really think that the best way to treat depression is to decrease mental capacity? Do they really truly see no therapeutic power in elation and ecstasy and self-transcendence and rapture? Please tell me that these fans of brain damage are joking.

Well, I suppose Mary Baker Eddy would be proud of those of us who choose brain damage over the use of substances that are part of the politically demonized category called "drugs."






Author's Follow-up:

October 20, 2025

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Shock therapy? How about trying cocaine first? Sigmund Freud considered it to be a cure for depression. The drug was demonized by doctors who saw their jobs disappearing should this panacea be available for the depressed. And so they judged the drug by focusing only on the vast MINORITY of people who misused it -- folks who were never educated about SAFE use in the first place. This is precisely as if they were to judge liquor by considering drunkards only. That's the REAL story about cocaine 4 5 : self-interested doctors threw the depressed under the bus. Their Hippocratic Oath was: first, make a buck.

That doctors today would prefer shock therapy shows that they have been duped by their own propaganda. Moliere parodied this gullibility 400 years ago in 'The Imaginary Invalid':

ARGAN: But doctors themselves must believe in the truth in their science since they use it on themselves.

BROTHER: That's because there are some in their number who suffer from the same delusion by which they profit.

--The Imaginary Invalid by Moliere, produced by Yuri Rasovsky


Notes:

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2: How materialists lend a veneer of science to the lies of the drug warriors (up)
3: The Truth About Opium by William H. Brereton (up)
4: Sigmund Freud's real breakthrough was not psychoanalysis (up)
5: On Cocaine (up)







Ten Tweets

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The best long-term treatment for OUD would be to normalize the nightly smoking of opium at home, not to addict the user to government-supplied drugs that render them impervious to the benefits of the poppy plant.

Uruguay wants to re-legalize psilocybin mushrooms -- but only for use in a psychiatrist's office. So let me get this straight: psychiatrists are the new privileged shaman? It's a mushroom, for God's sake. Just re-legalize the damn thing and stop treating us like children.

The DEA should be put on trial for crimes against humanity for withholding godsend medicine from the depressed. Here is just one typical drug-user report that appeared in "Pihkal": "A glimpse of what true heaven is supposed to feel like..."

Suicidal people should be given drugs that cheer them up immediately and whose use they can look forward to. The truth is, we would rather such people die than to give them such drugs, that's just how bamboozled we are by the war against drugs.

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.

I personally hate beets and I could make a health argument against their legality. Beets can kill for those allergic to them. Sure, it's a rare condition, but since when has that stopped a prohibitionist from screaming bloody murder?

The FDA uses reductive materialism to justify and normalize the views of Cortes and Pizarro with respect to entheogenic medicine.

"Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death." -Jean Cocteau

Prohibition turned habituation into addiction by creating a wide variety of problems for users, including potential arrest, tainted or absent drug supply, and extreme stigmatization.

The front page of every mycology club page should feature a protest of drug laws that make the study of mycology illegal in the case of certain shrooms. But no one protests. Their silence makes them drug war collaborators because it serves to normalize prohibition.


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