I do so hate to brag, but there is at point which humility becomes a kind of dishonesty. Know, therefore, that I am the only one in the world who has pointed out that assisted suicide cannot be discussed advisedly without discussing the drug prohibition that renders it necessary. There, I've said it. What's more, drug prohibition denies us the kinds of drugs that might make us want to live. Drug use inspired the Vedic religion and use of the coca leaf was -- and continues to be -- an inspiration to the Inca and their descendants. What does it say about America when I am the only one who connects these facts? And I have not sat on this stuff. I have spread the news to the movers and shakers in the assisted suicide game and no one even acknowledges my letters. 
Prohibitionists have the same M O they've had for the last 100+ years: blame drugs for everything. Being a drug warrior is never having the decency to say you're sorry -- not to Mexicans, not to inner-city crime victims, not to patients who go without adequate pain relief...
The drug war is a scare campaign to teach us to distrust mother nature and to rely on pharmaceuticals instead.
I knew all along that Measure 110 in Oregon was going to be blamed for the problems that the drug war causes. Drug warriors never take responsibility, despite all the blood that they have on their hands.
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.
In the 19th century, author Richard Middleton wrote how poets would get together to use opium "in a series of magnificent quarterly carouses."
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Timothy Leary's wife wrote: "We went to Puerto Rico and all we did was take cocaine and read Faust to one another." And there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG with that!!! The drug war is all about scaring us and making illegal drug use as dangerous as possible.
Materialist scientists cannot triumph over addiction because their reductive focus blinds them to the obvious: namely, that drugs which cheer us up ACTUALLY DO cheer us up. Hence they keep looking for REAL cures while folks kill themselves for want of laughing gas and MDMA.
So much harm could be reduced by shunting people off onto safer alternative drugs -- but they're all outlawed! Reducing harm should ultimately mean ending this prohibition that denies us endless godsends, like the phenethylamines of Alexander Shulgin.
Typical materialist protocol. Take all the "wonder" out of the drug and sell it as a one-size-fits all "reductionist" cure for anxiety. Notice that they refer to hallucinations and euphoria as "adverse effects." What next? Communion wine with the religion taken out of it?
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