and its leaders put on trial for crimes against humanity
by Brian Ballard Quass, the Drug War Philosopher
May 27, 2022
Letter to the US Justice Department.
Your DEA is disgraceful.
They have been lying about godsend plant medicine for almost half a century now.
They have denied godsend medicine to soldiers suffering from PTSD for the last 40 years, by criminalizing MDMA 1 against the advice of their own counsel.
They have sprayed marijuana plants with a known toxin called paraquat, that has been shown to cause Parkinson's Disease.
They have militarized police forces with their drug laws, caused civil wars overseas, and empowered a self-described drug-war Hitler in the Philippines.
They were responsible last year for almost 800 black deaths in Chicago alone, thanks to the gunfire that substance prohibition brings to poor, and poorly educated, neighborhoods.
They have enforced drug laws that have taken millions of minorities off of the voting rolls, thereby ensuring the election of anti-American fascists.
They have made me go my whole life now without godsend medicine, forcing me to rely on the expensive and addictive psychiatric pill mill 2 which was created by Big Pharma 34 thanks to the monopoly that the Drug War gave them on mood medicine.
They violated Natural Law by stomping onto Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in 1987 and confiscating his poppy plants.
They have censored science every bit as much as the Catholic Church censored Galileo.
They have criminalized peace-making drugs like Ecstasy and psilocybin, which could be used therapeutically to end school shootings.
They created the opioid crisis out of whole cloth thanks to their policy of substance prohibition, which incentivizes dealers to sell the most addictive and readily available substances, for which there's an eager market when the DEA has outlawed all safer pharmacological paths to self-transcendence.
They have violated religious liberty by outlawing the same plant medicine that inspired the Vedic-Hindu religion and countless South American and Native American religions.
Your DEA should be abolished and its leaders put on trial for crimes against humanity.
May 28, 2022
Shortly after submitting the above interesting message, our apparently masochistic author sent the following message directly to the DEA via the comment form on the DEA Museum Page. Brian, of course, found the mere existence of that page outrageous, since it paraded plants before the public as if to show us a criminal lineup. Surely even a grade-schooler can see the anti-scientific folly of such brain-dead show trials. At least Stalin's henchmen were "trying" actual people for made-up crimes. Today's Drug Warrior is demonizing plants and fungi.
THE DEA IS A DISGRACE. YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO CRIMINALIZE PLANTS. THOMAS JEFFERSON ROLLED IN HIS GRAVE WHEN YOU STOMPED ONTO Monticello 5 AND CONFISCATED HIS POPPY PLANTS. TEACH ABOUT SUBSTANCES, STOP DEMONIZING THEM. YOU CAUSED 2000+ DEATHS IN CHICAGO ALONE LAST YEAR BY THE VIOLENCE WROUGHT BY PROHIBITION. YOU CREATED WARS IN SOUTH AMERICA. YOU EMPOWERED FASCISTS BY REMOVING MINORITIES FROM THE VOTING ROLLS. YOUR PROHIBITION HAS CREATED THE PSYCHIATRIC PILL MILL, UPON WHICH 1 IN 4 AMERICAN WOMEN ARE DEPENDENT FOR LIFE. YOUR DRUG WAR HAS CAUSED ALL OF THE PROBLEMS THAT IT PURPORTS TO SOLVE, AND THEN SOME.
Scientists are not the experts on psychoactive medicines. The experts are painters and artists and spiritualists -- and anyone else who simply wants to be all they can be in life. Scientists understand nothing of such goals and aspirations.
Harm Reduction is not enough. We need Benefit Production as well. The autistic should be able to use compassion-enhancing drugs; dementia patients should be able to use the many drugs that improve and speed up mental processes.
This is why America is creeping toward authoritarianism -- because of the prohibitionists' ability to get away with everything by blaming "drugs." The fact that Americans still fall for this crap represents a kind of collective pathology.
Michael Pollan is the Leona Helmsley of the Drug War. He uses outlawed drugs freely while failing to support the re-legalization of Mother Nature. Drug laws are apparently for the little people.
Drug prohibition is a crime against humanity. It is the outlawing of our right to take care of our own health.
Freud had the right idea: He noticed that cocaine use actually ended depression in his patients. Unfortunately, he was ambitious and was more interested in making a name for himself than in pushing back against the statistically challenged fear mongering of prohibitionists.
In the 19th century, poets got together to use opium "in a series of magnificent quarterly carouses" (as per author Richard Middleton). When we outlaw drugs, we outlaw free expression.
Talking about being in denial: drug warriors blame all of the problems that they cause on "drugs" and then insist that the entire WORLD accept their jaundiced view of the natural bounty that God himself told us was good.
We have to deny the FDA the right to judge psychoactive medicines in the first place. Their materialist outlook obliges them to ignore all obvious benefits. When they nix drugs like MDMA, they nix compassion and love.
Outlawing opium wOutlawing opium was the ultimate government power grab. It put the government in charge of pain relief.
as the ultimate government power grab. It put the government in charge of pain relief.
Scientists are not the experts on psychoactive medicines. The experts are painters and artists and spiritualists -- and anyone else who simply wants to be all they can be in life. Scientists understand nothing of such goals and aspirations.
