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.
To oppose the Drug War philosophically, one has to highlight its connections to both materialism and the psychiatric pill mill. And that's a problem, because almost everyone is either a Drug Warrior, a materialist, and/or has a vested interest in the psychiatric pill mill.
We're living in a sci-fi dystopia called "Fahrenheit 452", in which the police burn thought-expanding plants instead of thought-expanding books.
It's a category error to say that scientists can tell us if psychoactive drugs "really work." It's like asking Dr. Spock of Star Trek if hugging "really works." ("Hugging is highly illogical, Captain.")
Trump is the prototypical drug warrior. He knows that he can destroy American freedoms by fearmongering. He has seen it work with the Drug War, which got rid of the 4th Amendment, religious freedom and is now going after free speech.
People are talking about re-scheduling psilocybin, but they miss the point. We need to DE-schedule everything. It's anti-scientific to conclude in advance that any drug has no uses -- and it's a lie too, of course. End drug scheduling altogether! It's childish and wrong.
This is why it's wrong to dismiss drugs as "good" or "bad." There are endless potential positive uses to psychoactive drugs. That's all that we should ask of them.
The drug war has created a whole film genre with the same tired plots: drug-dealing scumbags and their dupes being put in their place by the white Anglo-Saxon establishment, which has nothing but contempt for altered states.
The drug war is a big scare campaign to teach us to distrust mother nature and to rely on pharmaceuticals instead.
The 1932 movie "Scarface" starts with on-screen text calling for a crackdown on armed gangs in America. There is no mention of the fact that a decade's worth of Prohibition had created those gangs in the first place.
I think we should start taking names. All politicians and government officials who work to keep godsends like psilocybin from the public should be held to account for crimes against humanity when the drug war finally ends.
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