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Top Ten Drug War Essays

by Ballard Quass, the Drug War Philosopher


January 16, 2024

asey "Lower-Case" Kasem here with America's top 10 Drug War essays. Today's top 10 is dedicated to the pain patients who go without blessed relief thanks to the anti-scientific fearmongering of racist politicians.




1: Drug re-legalization is not enough
2: THE ANTI DRUG WAR BLOG
3: Silence equals Death in America's Drug War
4: Silence equals Death in America's Drug War
5: My New Clinical Trial in the Sacred Valley of Peru
6: The Dead Man
7: What's Drugs Got to Do With It?
8: What Terence McKenna Got Wrong About Drugs
9: In Defense of Cocaine
10: What Can the Chemical Hold?
11: You Can't Handle the Truth!
12: Open Letter to Nathan at TheDEA.org
13: Addiction
14: Why CBS 19 should stop supporting the Drug War
15: Introduction to the Drug War Philosopher Website at AbolishTheDEA.com
16: Connecticut Drug Warriors want to charge drug dealers with murder
17: Connecticut Drug Warriors want to charge drug dealers with murder
18: How the Monticello Foundation betrayed Jefferson's Legacy in 1987
19: How Science News Reckons Without the Drug War
20: How the Drug War Blinds us to Godsend Medicine



Next essay: The Christian Presuppositions of the Drug War and Why They're Important
Previous essay: The Muddled Metaphysics of the Drug War

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Some Tweets against the hateful war on drugs

In "How to Change Your Mind," Michael Pollan says psychedelic legalization would endanger young people. What? Prohibition forces users to decide for themselves which mushrooms are toxic, or to risk buying contaminated product. And that's safe, Michael?
Governor Kotek is "dealing" with the homelessness problem in Oregon by arresting her way out of it, in fealty to fearmongering drug warriors.
Of course, prohibitionists will immediately remind me that we're all children when it comes to drugs, and can never -- but never -- use them wisely. That's like saying that we could never ride horses wisely. Or mountain climb. Or skateboard.
They drive to their drug tests in pickup trucks with license plates that read "Don't tread on me." Yeah, right. "Don't tread on me: Just tell me how and how much I'm allowed to think and feel in this life. And please let me know what plants I can access."
All drugs have positive uses at some dose, for some reason, at some time -- but prohibitionists have the absurd idea that drugs can be voted up or down. This anti-scientific notion deprives the modern world of countless godsends.
Someday those books about weird state laws will be full of factoids like: "In Alabama, you could be jailed for 20 years for conspiring to eat a mushroom."
I'm grateful to the folks who are coming out of the woodwork at the last minute to deface their own properties with "Trump 2024" signs. Now I'll know who to thank should Trump get elected and sell us out to Putin.
Peyote advocates should be drug legalization advocates. Otherwise, they're involved in special pleading which is bound to result in absurd laws, such as "Plant A can be used in a religion but not plant B," or "Person A can belong to such a religion but person B cannot."
Meanwhile, no imaginable downside could persuade westerners that guns and alcohol were too dangerous. Yet the DEA lies about almost all psychoactive drugs, saying there are no good uses. That's a lie! Then they pass laws that keep us from disproving their puritanical conclusion.
The worst form of government is not communism, socialism or even unbridled capitalism. The worst form of government is a Christian Science Theocracy, in which the government controls how much you are allowed to think and feel in life.
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You have been reading an article entitled, published on January 16, 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)