a message from the Partnership for a Death Free America
by Brian Ballard Quass, the Drug War Philosopher
May 4, 2025
America has succeeded in outlawing the kinds of medicines that inspired the Hindu religion. So far, so good. But there is still more work to do. White American young people are still beset with needless dangers everywhere you look. Fortunately, the Madison Avenue firm of Chicken Little Inc. has just teamed up with the Partnership for a Death Free America 123 to address one of these many bugbears in a new advertising campaign. This week we have released a new public service announcement calling for the outlawing of shopping carts. Click the audio link above to give it a listen! To learn more, visit us on the Web at Partnership for a Death Free America.
Assisted suicide cannot be discussed meaningfully without discussing the drug prohibition that renders it necessary in the first place.
Rick Strassman isn't sure that DMT should be legal. Really?! Does he not realize how dangerous it is to chemically extract DMT from plants? In the name of safety, prohibitionists have encouraged dangerous ignorance and turned local police into busybody Nazis.
Folks like Sabet accuse folks like myself of ignoring the "facts." No, it is Sabet who is ignoring the facts -- facts about dangerous horses and free climbing. He's also ignoring all the downsides of prohibition, whose laws lead to the election of tyrants.
Don't the Oregon prohibitionists realize that all the thousands of deaths from opiates is so much blood on their hands?
Who would have thought back in 1776 that Americans would eventually have to petition their government for the right to even possess a damn mushroom. The Drug War has destroyed America.
Pundits have been sniffing about the "smell" of Detroit lately. Sounds racist -- especially since such comments tend to come from drug warriors, the guys who ruined Detroit in the first place (you know, with drug laws that incentivized profit-seeking violence as a means of escaping poverty).
Just saw a prosecutor gloating about the drug dealers she has taken down.How much is she getting paid to play whack-a-mole?
No substance is bad in and of itself. Fentanyl has positive uses, at specific doses, for specific people, in specific situations. But the drug war votes substance up or down. That is hugely anti-scientific and it blocks human progress.
We might as well fight for justice for Christopher Reeves: he was killed because someone was peddling that junk that we call horses. The question is: who sold Christopher that horse?! Who encouraged him to ride it?!
In Mexico, the same substance can be considered a "drug" or a "med," depending on where you are in the country. It's just another absurd result of the absurd policy of drug prohibition.
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