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The drug war is based on two huge lies: 1) that there are no upsides to drug use, and 2) that there are no downsides to prohibition. More at abolishthedea.com.

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When employers say piss, Americans ask, 'How Much?'

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08.11.2025 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A Principle-Driven Approach to Ending Drug Prohibition Academics should be embarrassing drug warriors by clearly pointing out the fallacious principles upon which their death-dealing policies are predicated.

A Principle-Driven Approach to Ending Drug Prohibition
an open letter to American academics
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07.11.2025 17:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pundits tell us that there are medical reasons not to "snort" cocaine. So what? There are medical reasons not to drive a car: you may have an accident. The question is: does cocaine use or car driving make sense in a given case! Details matter!

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07.11.2025 13:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In America, they save the depressed from cocaine and opium by turning them into patients for life with dependence-causing "meds." Now 30-year-old doctors get to treat 67-year-olds like children, with new visits every damn three months.

07.11.2025 04:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Hidden Drug War Prejudices of Modern Authors

an open letter to Andrew Monteith, author of Christian Nationalism and the Birth of the War on Drugs

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06.11.2025 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I come not to praise coca but to use it

(for improving my health, that is)

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05.11.2025 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Amazing. Conservatives say they're against Big Government -- but they let bureaucrats decide what medicines they can use.

04.11.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We give kids drugs to improve their concentration -- but if adults use drugs to improve their concentration, we throw them in jail.

04.11.2025 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

More on Jeffrey Singer's great book:
Your Body, Your Health Care

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04.11.2025 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

More on Melvin Sheldrake and drugs.

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03.11.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Four reasons why Addiction is a political term We will never know how much addiction is a real problem until we end prohibition. Prohibition outlaws all the drugs that could help us get off of problematic drugs.

Addiction is a political term -- updated
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02.11.2025 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Impact of Drug War Propaganda on Legalization Advocates

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02.11.2025 00:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Helping the Elderly with Drugs - update

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31.10.2025 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Depressing Truth about SSRIs -- update

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30.10.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The Drug War as Religion Those who support the Drug War do so based on a kind of materialist version of Christian Science.

How the Justice Department uses drug prohibition to outlaw religions.

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30.10.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The Truth About Opium by William H. Brereton Refutation of the fallacies of the Anti-Opium Society and a Defence of the Indo-China Opium Trade -- FREE audiobook

I only wish we could turn our drunkards into opium smokers. If the change would only save those wretched wives and their helpless children from ill-treatment by their husbands and fathers, we should have secured one valuable end. -- William Brereton

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30.10.2025 11:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When is the medical industry going to stand up to the beer-bellied prohibitionists and remind them that the right to heal is a basic human right?

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29.10.2025 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cocaine in the Cockpit

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29.10.2025 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ten Trips -- thoughts on Andy Mitchell's book about psychedelics

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28.10.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Shut up and take your meds! How credentialed academics ignore all drug-relevant insights unless they come from within the Ivory Tower itself.

Shut Up and Take Your Meds!
(update)

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27.10.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How Drug Prohibition Turns Adults into Children

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26.10.2025 18:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Drug Prohibition is the Problem, not Drugs what the movers and shakers get wrong in the drug re-legalization debate

Prohibition is the Problem, Not Drugs UPDATE
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25.10.2025 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
45 rpm record: 'O Say Can You See?' by The Drug War Philosopher

45 rpm record: 'O Say Can You See?' by The Drug War Philosopher

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24.10.2025 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Incredible! This guy frets about giving the depressed access to time-honored medicines beloved of Freud and Ben Franklin-- yet he is absolutely blind to the hideous downsides of today's psychiatric drugs! abolishthedea.com/our_short_si...

24.10.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The Drug War and Armageddon Before we go tweaking the human genome to favor empathy, we should first consider the much simpler and more obvious expedient of ending the anti-scientific Drug War.

Self-interested doctors scared us into outlawing the sacred plant of the Incas, and the depressed have been paying for it ever since. abolishthedea.com/the_drug_war...

24.10.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Most drug pundits have NO IDEA about the true evils of drug prohibition, and that includes DJ Nutt, Michael Pollan, and Rick Strassman.
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24.10.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dear DJ Nutt: Prohibition is the problem, not DRUGS!

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23.10.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What drug use could tell us about the rationalist triumphalism of Immanuel Kant

(at least in a world in which academics were still free)

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22.10.2025 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Bullet-riddled sign in slum reading: 'Pardon our drug prohibition'

Bullet-riddled sign in slum reading: 'Pardon our drug prohibition'

21.10.2025 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Time to Exterminate Hippopotami UPDATE

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21.10.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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