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A Dope Comedy Routine About Drugs

by Brian Ballard Quass, the Drug War Philosopher

November 5, 2023



Enjoy this satirical sendup of America's laughable attitude toward drugs. (Click the audio link above!)


MOTHER: Where are you off to so fast, sweetie?

SON: There's a Dare rally at the Capitol. I'm going down there to just say no to drugs.

MOTHER: Did you remember to take your meds?

SON: Yes, Mom. I popped the whole batch of them on my way through the kitchen.

MOTHER: Careful, dear. You're going to spill that Red Bull you're holding.

SON: Oh, I almost forgot. I was hoping to pick up some bush beer for Dad's upcoming party on my way back. Can you spot me a 20?


A four-panel comic strip. PANEL 1: the cartoon title, That Nutty Drug War! PANEL 2: Son: 'I'm on my way to the Just Say No Rally' PANEL 3: Mom: 'Did you remember to take your meds?' PANEL 4: Son: 'Oh, yeah, thanks for reminding me!'
Americans claim to hate drugs, and yet 1 in 4 American women are dependent on Big Pharma drugs for life, and we consider them to be good patients!




MOTHER: Only if you'll pick up a box of Virginia Slims for me.

SON: In that case, you better give me your credit card. I don't think it's safe for me to carry all that money around at night.

MOTHER: Here you are, you dope.

SON: Dope? Dope? I just say no to dope, remember?

MOTHER: Touché. Oh, and congratulations, Joey.

SON: For what, Mom?

MOTHER: I heard you passed your urine test to work at the local ABC store.

SON: What can I say? Jesus himself could not have had more impeccable urine than yours truly.

MOTHER: I'm proud of you, Joey.

SON: Oh, stop it, Mom.

MOTHER: Now, have a good time at the Dare rally.

SON: I just hope I don't run into Derek.

MOTHER: Why don't you want to see Derek? I thought he was your best drug-free friend.

SON: He is, but...

MOTHER: What?

SON: He and I had a falling out about American drug policy.

MOTHER: Really? What happened?

SON: Well, he agrees with Los Angeles Police Chief Darryl Gates that drug users should be taken out and shot.

MOTHER: Sounds like a reasonable point of view to me.

SON: Whereas I think William Bennett had the right idea when he said that drug users should be beheaded instead.

MOTHER: Well now, I think that's a topic upon which reasonable people can disagree.

SON: I'm off.

MOTHER: Oh, and we're all out of coffee. And Tylenol now that I think of it.

SON: Mom.

MOTHER: Oh, and if the pharmacy is still open, your sister needs her pills for depression, anxiety, and ADHD.

SON: I tell you what, Mom. Why don't I just bring back the entire store?

MOTHER: Don't be such a dope.

SON: Dope? Dope.

MOTHER: I know, I know. You don't do dope.








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If drug war logic made sense, we would outlaw endless things in addition to drugs. Because the drug war says that it's all worth it if we can save just one life -- which is generally the life of a white suburban young person, btw.

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." -- Groucho Marx

Psychiatrists refuse to acknowledge that it is hugely disempowering to turn patients into wards of the healthcare state with dependence-causing "meds." End drug prohibition and end the psychiatric pill mill.

I have dissed MindMed's new LSD "breakthrough drug" for philosophical reasons. But we can at least hope that the approval of such a "de-fanged" LSD will prove to be a step in the slow, zigzag path toward re-legalization.

The Drug War is the legally enforced triumph of human idiocy. We have rigged the deck so that our dunces can be right. The Drug War is a superstition. Indeed, it is THE modern superstition.

I passed a sign that says "Trust Trump." What does that mean? Trust him to crack down on his opposition using the U.S. Army? Or trust him not to do all the anti-American things that he's saying he's going to do.

I thought mycology clubs across the US would be protesting drug laws that make mushroom collecting illegal for psychoactive species. But in reality, almost no club even mentions such species. No wonder prohibition is going strong.

The book "Plants of the Gods" is full of plants and fungi that could help addicts and alcoholics, sometimes in the plant's existing form, sometimes in combinations, sometimes via extracting alkaloids, etc. But drug warriors need addiction to sell their prohibition ideology.

If we can go overseas to burn poppy plants, then Islamic countries should be free to come to the United States to burn our grape vines.

Laughing gas is the substance that gave William James his philosophy of reality. He concluded from its use that what we perceive is just a fraction of reality writ large. Yet his alma mater (Harvard) does not even MENTION laughing gas in their bio of the man.


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