Why Congressman Kevin Kiley Should be Charged with Murder
by Ballard Quass, the Drug War Philosopher
August 4, 2023
Today, California Congressman Kevin Kiley called for charging fentanyl dealers with murder. The following are my five tweeted replies in response to this demagogue's cynical chest thumping.
Can't even complain to Kevin Kiley. His Congressional page is set up to ignore non-constituents. So apparently he can destroy this country with racist and xenophobic policies and we cannot so much as ask him to desist.
But in his defense, I'm sure he received a nice teddy bear as a kid for saying no to Mother Nature's immoral plant medicines.
I say we give Kevin Kiley a drug test. If we find so much as a trace of caffeine or alcohol, we should confiscate his house, deny him SSA benefits, remove him from the workforce, and debar him from ever holding public office again.
We've got to make sure that our modern-day Torquemadas are morally pure after all.
Better yet, let's put him on trial for the 100,000 deaths that his policies have caused in Mexico over the last 10 years and for the ongoing shootings in inner cities that his prohibition has brought about thanks to the rival drug gangs that it created.
Many articles in science mags need this disclaimer: "Author has declined to consider the insights gained from drug-induced states on this topic out of fealty to Christian Science orthodoxy." They don't do this because they know readers already assume that drugs will be ignored.
It is consciousness which, via perception, shapes the universe into palpable forms. Otherwise it's just a chaos of particles. The very fact that you can refer to "the sun" shows that your senses have parsed the raw data into a specific meaning. "We" make this universe.
What is the end game of the drug warrior? A world in which no one wants drugs? That's not science. It's the drug-hating religion of Christian Science. You know, the American religion that outsources its Inquisition to drug-testing labs.
Using the billions now spent on caging users, we could end the whole phenomena of both physical and psychological addiction by using "drugs to fight drugs." But drug warriors do not want to end addiction, they want to keep using it as an excuse to ban drugs.
Richard Evans Schultes seems to have originated the harebrained idea (since used by the US Supreme Court to suppress new religions) that you have no right to use drugs in a religious ritual if you did not grow up in a society that had such practices. What tyrannical idiocy!
If psychoactive drugs had never been criminalized, science would never have had any reason or excuse for creating SSRIs that muck about unpredictably with brain chemistry. Chewing the coca leaf daily would be one of many readily available "miracle treatments" for depression.
My depression would disappear overnight if religiously intolerant America would just allow me to live as free as Benjamin Franklin.
There are plenty of "prima facie" reasons for believing that we could eliminate most problems with drug and alcohol withdrawal by chemically aided sleep cures combined with using "drugs" to fight "drugs." But drug warriors don't want a fix, they WANT drug use to be a problem.
Clearly a millennia's worth of positive use of coca by the Peruvian Indians means nothing to the FDA. Proof must show up under a microscope.
Why don't those politicians understand what hateful colonialism they are practicing? Psychedelics have been used for millennia by the tribes that the west has conquered -- now we won't even let folks talk honestly about such indigenous medicines.
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