Forbidden essays against drug prohibiton

1. Drug prohibition is a crime against humanity because it denies us the right to take care of our own health.
2. The DEA is a Schedule I agency. It has no known positive uses.
3. Pain patients and the depressed are totally unrecognized victims of drug prohibition.
4. Drug prohibition outlaws the philosophical research that William James himself told us to undertake.
5. Drug prohibition has resulted in hundreds of thousands of completely unnecessary deaths thanks to totally preventable drug overdoses!
6. The so-called opiate crisis is really a drug prohibition crisis.
7. Drug prohibition has 'saved' Americans from opium and coca by shunting them off onto Big Pharma meds that are FAR HARDER TO KICK THAN HEROIN.
8. Drug prohibition destroyed the rule of law in Latin America.
9. American businesses judge people, not by the color of their skin but by the contents of their digestive systems.
10. Some outlawed drugs grow new neurons in the brain. To refuse to use them makes us complicit in the dementia of our loved ones!
11. The Partnership for a Drug Free America should be put on trial for having blatantly lied to Americans in the 1980s about drugs, while using our taxpayer money to do so!
12. White American young people are NOT the only stakeholders in the drugs debate.
13. Drug prohibition has destroyed inner cities around the world.
14. Doctors decided that cocaine was not good for the depressed. No one asked the depressed what they thought about the drug. (Follow the money!)
15. We give kids drugs to improve their concentration -- but if adults use drugs to concentrate, we call them names and throw them in jail.
16. In a compassionate world, we would give laughing gas kits to the suicidal just as we now give epi pens to those with severe allergies.
17. If media were free in America, you'd see documentaries about people using drugs wisely for a wide variety of praiseworthy purposes.
18. Hundreds of millions suffer depression TOTALLY UNNECESSARILY today because racist and xenophobic puritans have outlawed all medicines that can improve people's mood.
19. It is a category error to place materialist scientists in charge of mind and mood medicine.
20. If I smoke opium nightly, I am a drug scumbag. If I use Big Pharma "meds" every day of my life, I am a good patient.
21. Drug prohibition ended democracy in America by removing hundreds of thousands of minorities from the voting rolls.
22. The Mexican Drug War led to the 'disappearance' of 60,000 Mexicans in two decades.
23. The outlawing of coca and opium is a crime against humanity.
24. In the movie "Four Good Days," the pompous white-coated doctor ignores the entire formulary of mother nature and instead throws the young heroin user on a cot for 3 days of cold turkey and a shot of Naltrexone: price tag $3,000.
25. Entire religions have been inspired by drugs that inspire and elate, which are exactly the kinds of drugs that 'Christian' drug warriors outlaw.
26. Opium could be a godsend for talk therapy. It can help the user step outside themselves and view their problems from novel viewpoints.
27. If opium and cocaine were re-legalized, hospital buildings would no longer be the secular cathedrals of our time. Some of that wealth would actually go to healthy people.
28. The drug war is a scare campaign to teach us to distrust mother nature and to rely on pharmaceuticals instead.
29. Big Pharma drugs have wrought disaster when used in psychotherapy, but it does not follow that the depressed should become Christian Scientists. The use of outlawed drugs can obviate the need for shock therapy.
30. Our government treats drugs as if they were uranium and spends hundreds of billions of dollars trying to scare us about them.
31. All drugs have positive uses. It's absurd to prohibit them because one demographic might misuse them.
32. You can get a Ph.D. in healthcare, and not learn a thing about the glaringly obvious benefits of drugs, as demonstrated by history, anecdote and common sense.
33. For most drugs, dependency is a bug. For Big Pharma antidepressants, it is a feature.
34. If Fentanyl kills, then alcohol slaughters. Drug prohibition is the real killer.
35. The prohibitionist motto: "Billions for arrest, not one cent for education."
36. Self-medicating has always been the most basic of human rights, until the medical industry demonized the practice for obvious financial reasons.
37. We would never have even heard of Freud except for cocaine. How many geniuses is America stifling even as we speak thanks to the war on mind improving medicines?
38. Most addiction service providers assume that the goal should be to get off all drugs. That is not science, it is Christian Science.
39. America takes away the citizen's right to manage their own pain by making opium illegal. Then psychiatrists treat the resulting epidemic of depression and anxiety by damaging the patient's brain with shock therapy.
40. The police can confiscate entire estates if they find traces of a drug on the premises, regardless of who placed it there.
41. America arrests people whose only crime is that they are trying to be all that they can be in life... in such a way that psychiatrists are not getting THEIR cut.
42. Drugs like opium and cocaine should come with the following warning: "Outlawing of this product may result in inner-city gunfire, civil wars overseas, and rigged elections in which drug warriors win office by throwing minorities in jail."
43. We're living in a sci-fi dystopia called "Fahrenheit 452", in which the police burn thought-expanding plants instead of thought-expanding books.
44. America legalizes alcohol and then outlaws all the drugs that could help prevent and cure alcoholism.
45. When it comes to "drugs," the government plays Polonius to our Ophelia: OPHELIA: I do not know, my lord, what I should think. POLONIUS: Marry, I'll teach you; think yourself a baby!
46. Americans won't be true grown-ups until they learn to react to drug deaths the same way that they react to deaths from horseback riding and mountain climbing (or to alcohol-related deaths, for that matter).
47. The Petpedia website says that "German Shepherds need to have challenging jobs such as searching for drugs." How about searching for death-dealing prohibitionists instead?
48. The UN has adopted the childish and tyrannical goal of eradicating the Divine plant of the Inca from the face of the Earth because Americans blame all their social problems on drugs.
49. Scientists are practicing pharmacological colonialism when they hold holistic-working drugs to reductionist standards.
50. Suicide, depression and gun violence are all caused by drug prohibition -- but literally no one who fights these scourges will even acknowledge that fact.
51. The biggest drug pusher in world history is Big Pharma, thanks to whom one in four American women are hooked on drugs for life.
52. Self-medicating has always been the most basic of human rights, until the medical industry demonized the practice for obvious financial reasons.
53. America outlaws the divine plant of the Inca on behalf of Latin America, then uses its own drug laws as an excuse to invade Latin American countries at will.
54. The final decision about how much pain relief you receive in hospital is made by bureaucrats in Washington D.C., not by your doctor.
55. Materialist researchers are gaslighting Americans about drugs, even daring to tell us that laughing gas could not help the seriously depressed!
56. Journalists should treat drug-related deaths like car-related deaths, as unfortunate accidents which, however, do not constitute a reason for outlawing drugs.
57. Drug law empowers police officers to confiscate entire estates if they find an illegal plant medicine on site, even if the owner knew nothing about it, and this in a country founded on the inviolability of private property?
58. Drug prohibition turns addiction into a 'thing' by outlawing all the substances that could help us get off unwanted substances without going through hell.
59. Scientists are not qualified to judge psychoactive substances because the efficacy of such drugs is determined by the user's actual feelings and experiences.
60. Reagan and Bush both encouraged American children to turn in their parents for using plant medicines of which politicians disapprove, precisely the kind of divisive tactic for which Josef Stalin was famous.
61. The medical industry has a vested interest in the continued outlawing of opium and coca. Their business model requires that Americans be disempowered with respect to their own healthcare!
62. Thanks to drug prohibition, depressed Americans are forced to see a doctor half their age every three damn months of their lives in order to be approved for buying an overpriced, underperforming and ENORMOUSLY DEPENDENCE-CAUSING BIG PHARMA MED!
63. Drug prohibition outlaws precisely the kinds of medicines that have inspired entire religions and so it is worse than the outlawing of religion: it is the outlawing of the religious impulse itself!
64. The FDA approves of brain-damaging shock therapy, but they will not approve of time-honored drugs that could cheer us up without damaging our brains.
65. The FDA approves of Big Pharma drugs whose side effects include death itself, but they do not approve of indigenous plant medicines.
66. Americans have been brainwashed about drugs since childhood by the media, with help from the White House itself, above all in the form of the TOTAL CENSORSHIP of all positive reports of drug use from movies, magazines and television shows!
67. Depression would not even be a 'thing' in America if cocaine were legal, but doctors judged it only by its worst possible use, exactly as if they were to judge alcohol by studying only alcoholics.
68. Drug prohibition has turned Americans into children when it comes to drugs.
69. Indiscriminate drug testing is the most egregious violation of the Fourth Amendment imaginable; it sends businesses on a fishing expedition into our bodily fluids.
70. Thanks to drug prohibition, one in four American women are dependent on Big Pharma drugs for life.
71. Drug warriors tell us that naturally occurring medicines are so dangerous that we have to lose our time-honored freedoms in order to protect ourselves from them; meanwhile they demand stock up on guns that kill over 45,000 a year in America alone!
72. American drug policy is based on two enormous lies: 1) that there are no upsides to drug use, and 2) that there are no downsides to drug prohibition.
73. In America, we are judged, not by the color of our skin but by the content of our digestive system.
74. Walmart will not even hire you if you have the slightest trace of time-honored medicines in your system, and yet their toy aisle is full of so-called 'hydration games' that encourage the irresponsible use of alcohol.
75. In 1987, the Jefferson Foundation invited the Reagan DEA onto Monticello to confiscate the Founding Father's poppy plants in violation of everything that he stood for as a politician.
76. Drug prohibition is based on the following anti-scientific algorithm: that a drug that can be misused by a white American young person when used at one dose for one reason, must not be used by anyone, anywhere, at any dose, for any reason.
77. We are told not to glorify drugs that improve the mind and promote spirituality -- yet Jim Beam liquor targets prime-time vodka ads at young people.
78. The Drug War is a massive branding campaign to demonize all psychoactive drugs except for liquor.
79. Drug prohibition is the worst form of tyranny on Earth: it does not seek merely to control what you think, but how and how much you can think -- and feel.
80. If we really want to end inner-city gunfire, we must end the drug prohibition that created it in the first place.
81. If we really want to end depression, we must end the drug prohibition that causes it by outlawing godsends like coca, cocaine, opium and laughing gas.
82. If we really want to end suicide, we must end the drug prohibition that causes it by outlawing godsends like coca, cocaine, opium and laughing gas.
83. The Drug War is one big branding operation to demonize all psychoactive substances except for alcohol.
84. When we outlaw drugs, we outlaw far more than drugs: we outlaw freedom of thought, creativity, mental focus, and the right to heal.
85. Drug prohibition is a make-work program for law enforcement.
86. Property ownership is the key principle of American freedom, yet drug law allows the confiscation of entire estates if a drug is present, even if the owner knew nothing about it.
87. Imagine if we removed Americans from the workforce and evicted them from public housing if we found a trace of alcohol in their system. Then drug warriors would get a taste of their own medicine.
88. When we outlaw drugs, we outlaw the kinds of substances that have inspired entire religions.
89. Almost all non-fiction authors censor themselves to never say anything positive about drugs, no matter how they have to distort their subject matter and render their findings counterintuitive.
90. Scientists tell us that depression is difficult to beat, but depression would scarcely be a 'thing' if we ended drug prohibition and used drugs for human benefit.
91. Following the science is crazy because drug efficacy is determined by how a given user feels, which is the one thing that scientists can't measure and quantify. Users are the experts on drug efficacy, not scientists.
92. The FDA never does a true cost/benefit analysis. Otherwise they'd consider the harm of NOT legalizing a drug, like the needless suffering of millions, the destruction of inner cities, and the end of the rule of law in Latin America.
93. Drug prohibition is not a victimless crime.
94. Drug prohibition is the great philosophical problem of our time, censoring academia and outlawing the investigations of William James with regard to reality itself, yet philosophers are silent.
95. Whenever we outlaw recreational drugs, we outlaw therapeutic drugs as well.
96. The depressed are never considered stakeholders in the drugs debate, yet they suffer in silence when racist politicians outlaw panaceas.
97. Academics should be fighting to end drug prohibition on the grounds of academic freedom, but they are silent.
98. If nurses and doctors were really interested in their patients' health, they would be fighting on their behalf to end drug prohibition which outlaws their right to heal.
99. We should no more blame drugs for deaths than we blame cars for deaths. Both can be used wisely and for good reasons.
100. Americans were always free to take care of their own health -- until drug warriors handed doctors a monopoly on providing mind and mood medicine.

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