Drug prohibition is a crime against humanity1. It is staggeringly cruel. It forces untold millions to suffer in silence.
Take me, for instance. I am attempting to get off and stay off the Big Pharma 23 med called Effexor 4 . And it's not easy. The withdrawal downsides are hideous and can continue for years. And yet it is clear to me -- absolutely clear -- that I could use a variety of drugs like coca and opium 5 and phenethylamines in a strategic and safe way in order to transcend Effexor downsides and truly get off that dependence-causing drug -- starting today! Starting right now! I could get off Effexor! This is just psychological common sense. And yet our drug policy tells us that drugs must be outlawed for everybody if they could be misused by the white young people whom we refuse to educate about safe use.
This algorithm represents a veto on human progress. It represents the end of personal health care. It is illegal to take care of one's emotional and mental health in America. Illegal.
If Americans had a clue what was going on here, then all sites on the topic of Effexor withdrawal would contain protests against drug prohibition, the drug policy which makes that withdrawal impossible. And yet no one connects the dots. That shows how successful the Drug Warriors have been in blinding us to all benefits of demonized substances.
Drug warriors should be put on trial for denying me the godsends that grow at my very feet, for denying me the right to take care of my own health. That is a crime against humanity.
How do they get away with this?
Answer: They never consider any stakeholders in their drug policy debates except for white American young people -- the ones whom they refuse on principle to educate about safe use. They never take into account the depressed whom they are forcing to go without godsend medicines.
A few months ago I wrote about a progressive cousin who spoke favorably about the idea of killing drug dealers. That cousin has a deeply depressed wife. I should have said to him: "That drug prohibition that you champion is the reason why your wife is living in hell 24/7!!!"
Alas, the Drug War clearly demonstrates that you can fool all of the people all of the time. You can even convince progressives to abjure time-honored freedoms in an effort to keep Americans from using godsend medicines. Propaganda is all-powerful. As historian William Shirer wrote in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich:
"No one who has not lived for years in a totalitarian land can possibly conceive how difficult it is to escape the dread consequences of a regime's calculated and incessant propaganda."
The Drug War proves that propaganda works, even in so-called democracies -- and this is a truth that the world has to come to terms with if freedom is to survive on planet Earth. Unless we take steps, like re-legalizing Mother Nature based on common-sense democratic principles, then racist politicians will continue to successfully promote inhumane agendas at the behest of self-interested billionaires.
Drug prohibition is a crime against humanity. It is the outlawing of our right to take care of our own health.
National Geo published an article entitled "Coca: a Blessing and a Curse." Coca was never a curse. Most people used it wisely, just as most people drink wisely. Doctors demonized it because it really worked and it could put them out of business. https://abolishthedea.com/sigmund_freuds_real_breakthrough_was_not_psychoanalysis.php
Drug prohibition is superstitious idiocy.
It is based on the following crazy idea:
that a substance that can be misused by a white young person at one dose for one reason must not be used by anybody at any dose for any reason.
We should place prohibitionists on trial for destroying inner cities.
The first step in harm reduction is to re-legalize mother nature's medicines. Then hundreds of millions of people will no longer suffer in silence for want of godsend medicines... for depression, for pain, for anxiety, for religious doubts... you name it.
Prohibition is wrong root and branch. It seeks to justify the colonial disdain for indigenous healing practices through fearmongering.
Big pharma drugs are designed to be hard to get off. Doctors write glowingly of "beta blockers" for anxiety, for instance, but ignore that fact that such drugs are hard -- and even dangerous -- to get off. We have outlawed all sorts of less dependence-causing alternatives.
Americans love to blame drugs for all their problems. Young people were not dying in the streets when opiates were legal. The prohibition mindset is the problem, not drugs.
This is the "Oprah fallacy," which has led to so much suffering. She told women they were fools if they accepted a drink from a man. That's crazy. If we are terrified by such a statistically improbable event, we should be absolutely horrified by horses and skateboards.
If daily drug use and dependency are okay, then there's no logical or scientific reason why I can't smoke a nightly opium pipe.
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