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Why Drug Prohibition is a Crime against Humanity

by Ballard Quass, the Drug War Philosopher

August 28, 2025



Drug prohibition is a crime against humanity1. It is staggeringly cruel. It forces untold millions to suffer in silence.

Take me, for instance. I am attempting to get off and stay off the Big Pharma 2 3 med called Effexor 4 . And it's not easy. The withdrawal downsides are hideous and can continue for years. And yet it is clear to me -- absolutely clear -- that I could use a variety of drugs like coca and opium 5 and phenethylamines in a strategic and safe way in order to transcend Effexor downsides and truly get off that dependence-causing drug -- starting today! Starting right now! I could get off Effexor! This is just psychological common sense. And yet our drug policy tells us that drugs must be outlawed for everybody if they could be misused by the white young people whom we refuse to educate about safe use.

This algorithm represents a veto on human progress. It represents the end of personal health care. It is illegal to take care of one's emotional and mental health in America. Illegal.

If Americans had a clue what was going on here, then all sites on the topic of Effexor withdrawal would contain protests against drug prohibition, the drug policy which makes that withdrawal impossible. And yet no one connects the dots. That shows how successful the Drug Warriors have been in blinding us to all benefits of demonized substances.

Drug warriors should be put on trial for denying me the godsends that grow at my very feet, for denying me the right to take care of my own health. That is a crime against humanity.

How do they get away with this?

Answer: They never consider any stakeholders in their drug policy debates except for white American young people -- the ones whom they refuse on principle to educate about safe use. They never take into account the depressed whom they are forcing to go without godsend medicines.

A few months ago I wrote about a progressive cousin who spoke favorably about the idea of killing drug dealers. That cousin has a deeply depressed wife. I should have said to him: "That drug prohibition that you champion is the reason why your wife is living in hell 24/7!!!"

Alas, the Drug War clearly demonstrates that you can fool all of the people all of the time. You can even convince progressives to abjure time-honored freedoms in an effort to keep Americans from using godsend medicines. Propaganda is all-powerful. As historian William Shirer wrote in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich:

"No one who has not lived for years in a totalitarian land can possibly conceive how difficult it is to escape the dread consequences of a regime's calculated and incessant propaganda."


The Drug War proves that propaganda works, even in so-called democracies -- and this is a truth that the world has to come to terms with if freedom is to survive on planet Earth. Unless we take steps, like re-legalizing Mother Nature based on common-sense democratic principles, then racist politicians will continue to successfully promote inhumane agendas at the behest of self-interested billionaires.




Notes:

1: Drug Prohibition is a crime against humantiy DWP (up)
2: Seife, Charles. 2012. “Is Drug Research Trustworthy?” Scientific American 307 (6): 56–63. https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican1212-56. (up)
3: LaMattina, John. n.d. “Why Is Biopharma Paying 75% of the FDA’s Drug Division Budget?” Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnlamattina/2022/09/22/why-is-biopharma-paying-75-of-the-fdas-drug-division-budget/. (up)
4: How Drug Prohibition makes it impossible to get off of Effexor and other Big Pharma drugs DWP (up)
5: The Truth About Opium by William H. Brereton DWP (up)








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Our government treats drugs like uranium and spends hundreds of billions of dollars trying to scare us about them.

Rick Strassman reportedly stopped his DMT trials because some folks had bad experiences at high doses. That is like giving up on aspirin because high doses of NSAIDs can kill.

It wasn't until western prudery and racism came along that we started to judge people by the substances that they chose to ingest, rather than by their actual behavior in the world.

Scientists are censored as to what they can study thanks to drug law. Instead of protesting that outrage, they lend a false scientific veneer to those laws via their materialist obsession with reductionism, which blinds them to the obvious godsend effects of outlawed substances.

It's because of such reductive pseudoscience that America will allow us to shock the brains of the depressed but won't allow us to let them use the plant medicines that grow at their feet.

We won't know how hard it is to get off drugs until we legalize all drugs that could help with the change. With knowledge and safety, there will be less unwanted use. And unwanted use can be combatted creatively with a wide variety of drugs.

Prohibitionists think that they merely have to use the word "drugs" to win an argument.

According to Donald Trump's view of life, Jesus Christ was a chump. We should hate our enemies, not love them.

Thanks to the Drug War, folks are forced to become amateur chemists to profit from DMT, a drug that occurs naturally in most living things. This is the same Drug War that is killing American young people wholesale by refusing to teach safe use and regulate drug supply.

I'm told that science is completely unbiased today. I guess I'll have to go back and reassess my doubts about Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy.


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