ith respect, Governor, you are just using drug law to steer attention away from the housing problem in America. The Drug War is always used like that: to steer attention away from social problems by arresting inconvenient populations. Drug warriors are murderers of our young people. MURDERERS! There were no young people dying by the thousands in American streets when opiates were legal. It was prohibition which brought that about. How? By discouraging education and incentivizing dealers to sell potentially contaminated product. When are we going to stop being hoodwinked by Drug Warriors?
Their MO is clear, Governor: They are in COMPLETE DENIAL. They blame all the problems caused by drug prohibition on drugs themselves. It is because of that self-serving misdiagnosis that I had to pay $4,000 to experience the benefits of a time-honored mushroom in Oregon. $4,000! So not only does the Drug War cause endless deaths of young people, it keeps millions of Americans from experiencing godsend medicines.
Please, please, please! Stop falling for the Drug War party line of complete denial. Drug warriors are murderers.
Drugs have never killed. Bad drug policies kill along with a lack of education. Drug warriors do not want education, and they refuse to teach safe use or to provide safe product.
So they are not only murderers, they are WILLFUL murderers. Please do not fall for their lies!
Re-legalize MOTHER NATURE TODAY! TEACH, DON'T ARREST. REGULATE AND EDUCATE!
And then address the homelessness problem honestly, head-on -- without diverting public attention to OTHER issues instead!
The drug war basically is the defeatist doctrine that we will never be able to use psychoactive drugs wisely. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy because the government does everything it can to make drug use dangerous.
Reagan paid a personal price for his idiocy however. He fell victim to memory loss from Alzheimer's, after making a career out of demonizing substances that can grow new neurons in the brain!
It's interesting that Jamaicans call the police 'Babylon,' given that Babylon denotes a society seeking materialist pleasures. Drug use is about transcending the material world and seeking spiritual states: states that the materialist derides as meaningless.
The whole drug war is based on the anti-American idea that the way to avoid problems is to lie and prevaricate and persuade people not to ask questions.
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.
The most addictive drugs have a bunch of great uses, like treating pain and inspiring great literature. Prohibition causes addiction by making their use as problematic as possible and denying knowledge and choices. It's always wrong to blame drugs.
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.
John Halpern wrote a book about opium, subtitled "the ancient flower that poisoned our world." What nonsense! Bad laws and ignorance poison our world, NOT FLOWERS!
That's my real problem with SSRIs: If daily drug use and dependency are okay, then there's no logical or truly scientific reason why I can't smoke a nightly opium pipe.
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...
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You have been reading an article entitled, Regulate and Educate: an open letter to Oregon Governor Tina Kotek, published on September 1, 2024 on AbolishTheDEA.com. For more information about America's disgraceful drug war, which is anti-patient, anti-minority, anti-scientific, anti-mother nature, imperialistic, the establishment of the Christian Science religion, a violation of the natural law upon which America was founded, and a childish and counterproductive way of looking at the world, one which causes all of the problems that it purports to solve, and then some, visit the drug war philosopher, at abolishTheDEA.com. (philosopher's bio; go to top of this page)
ith respect, Governor, you are just using drug law to steer attention away from the housing problem in America. The Drug War is always used like that: to steer attention away from social problems by arresting inconvenient populations. Drug warriors are murderers of our young people. MURDERERS! There were no young people dying by the thousands in American streets when opiates were legal. It was prohibition which brought that about. How? By discouraging education and incentivizing dealers to sell potentially contaminated product. When are we going to stop being hoodwinked by Drug Warriors? 
You have been reading an article entitled, Regulate and Educate: an open letter to Oregon Governor Tina Kotek, published on September 1, 2024 on AbolishTheDEA.com. For more information about America's disgraceful drug war, which is anti-patient, anti-minority, anti-scientific, anti-mother nature, imperialistic, the establishment of the Christian Science religion, a violation of the natural law upon which America was founded, and a childish and counterproductive way of looking at the world, one which causes all of the problems that it purports to solve, and then some, visit the drug war philosopher, at abolishTheDEA.com. (philosopher's bio; go to top of this page)