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?
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.
Ten Tweets
against the hateful war on US
The fact that drugs have positive uses for human beings is a psychological corollary of Husserl's phenomenology and Whitehead's philosophy of organism.
A law proposed in Colorado in February 2024 would have criminalized positive talk about drugs online. What? The world is on the brink of nuclear war because of hate-driven politics, and I can be arrested for singing the praises of empathogens?
If I should die of some unusual concatenation of circumstances, I want my survivors to pass "Brian's Law," a law stating that we will no longer pass laws based on hard cases and so needlessly fill our prisons by taking common-sense discretion out of the hands of judges.
When Rick Strassman and Michael Pollan call for continued prohibition to protect young people, they ignore the ENORMOUS fact that prohibition has destroyed inner cities around the world. Wake up, guys! Prohibition is evil, not drugs! Ignorance is evil, not education!
Both physical and psychological addiction can be successfully fought when we relegalize the pharmacopoeia and start to fight drugs with drugs. But prohibitionists do not want to end addiction, they want to scare us with it.
If our loved ones should experience severe depression and visit an emergency room for treatment, they will be started on a regime of dependence-causing Big Pharma drugs. They will not be given any drugs that elate and inspire.
My depression would disappear overnight if religiously intolerant America would just allow me to live as freely as Benjamin Franklin.
All drugs have positive uses. It's absurd to prohibit them because one demographic might misuse them.
The search for SSRIs has always been based on a flawed materialist premise that human consciousness is nothing but a mix of brain chemicals and so depression can be treated medically like any other physical condition.
Drug prohibition is superstitious idiocy.
It is based on the following crazy idea:
that a substance that can be misused by a white young person at one dose for one reason must not be used by anybody at any dose for any reason.
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