TheDrugWarPhilosopher

Suicidal people should be given drugs that cheer them up immediately and whose use they can look forward to. The truth is, we would rather such people die than to give them such drugs, that's just how bamboozled we are by the war against drugs.

In a blog post about cohoba, the psychedelic used by the Taino people, the author says, "In no way shape or form am I advocating for the use of any kind of drugs." What groveling! You SHOULD be advocating for the use of sacred medicines and against imperialist prohibition!

The following terms are political in the age of the drug war: "clean," "junk," "dope," "recreational"... and above all, the word "drugs" itself.

The Drug War is a religion. The "addict" is a sinner who has to come home to the true faith of Christian Science.

Blue Tide: The Search for Soma -- update abolishthedea.com/blue_tide_the_…

The Holy Trinity of the Drug War religion is Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and John Belushi. "They died so that you might fear psychoactive substances with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength."

Americans like Francis Fukuyama and Bill Clinton pretend to see no problems with drug prohibition. This blindness has racist overtones since the communities that pay the price for our kneejerk penchant for criminalizing substances are minority and impoverished communities.

In "Liberalism and its Discontents," Francis Fukuyama completely ignores the fact that drug prohibition has decimated inner cities by incentivizing violence. abolishthedea.com/open_letter_to…

Open Letter to Francis Fukuyama UPDATE abolishthedea.com/open_letter_to…

The prohibitionist motto is: "Billions for arrest, not one cent for education."

Progressives and Drugs abolishthedea.com/progressives_a…

Blue Tide: The Search for Soma --a philosophical review abolishthedea.com/blue_tide_the_…

The UN is in an odd position regarding drugs: they want to praise indigenous societies while yet outlawing the drugs that helped create them.

"The homicidal drug is booze. There's more violence on a Saturday night in a neighborhood tavern than there has been in the whole 20-year history of LSD." -- Timothy Leary

Later today, some philosophical thoughts on "Blue Tide: the Search for Soma," by Mike Jay.

The Kantian critique – combined with a knowledge of the biochemical bona fides of ALL human action -- destroys the illusion that there is an ontological Reality writ large to which only the "sober" individual has access.

There is no such thing as "sobriety" as Americans define the term. Human beings come preloaded with a default biochemistry that influences their view of reality, sometimes in a good way, but more often in a problematic or even pathological way.

People talk about how dangerous Jamaica is -- but no one reminds us that it is all due to America's Drug War. Yes, cannabis and psilocybin are legal there, but plenty of drugs are not, and even if they were, their illegality elsewhere would lead to fierce dealer rivalry.

Henri Bergson and Drugs abolishthedea.com/henri_bergson_…

Getting off some drugs could actually be fun and instructive, by using a variety of other drugs to keep one's mind off the withdrawal process. But America believes that getting off a drug should be a big moral battle.