Dana Larsen

As a drug user and drug dealer myself, I'd like to live in a world where these terms are not considered insults.

It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto - FuelArc News We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to comp...

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold.

The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold.

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Excerpt from "Mexican drug war" Wikipedia page. "When the Mexican military intervened in 2006, the government's main objective was to reduce drug-related violence." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_drug_war

Excerpt from "Mexico Drug War" Wikipedia page. "By the end of Calderón's administration in 2012, the official death toll of the Mexican drug war was at least 60,000.[56] Estimates set the death toll above 120,000 killed by 2013, not counting 27,000 missing." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_drug_war

Mexico brought in the army to fight cartels in 2006.

The goal? "reduce drug-related violence."

The result? Mass violence, mass death, more powerful cartels.

Hundreds of thousands violently murdered in Mexico.

Hundreds of thousands killed by OD's in North America.

We have to end the drug war.

Excerpt from 2025 UK government report: "...more studies demonstrated an association between drug-related law enforcement activities and increased violence than decreased violence." https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/drug-related-law-enforcement-activity-and-serious-violent-crime/the-impact-of-drug-related-law-enforcement-activity-on-serious-violence-and-homicide-a-systematic-review

Excerpt from 2010 study by BC Centre on Substance Use. "based on several decades of available data, the existing evidence strongly suggests that drug law enforcement contributes to gun violence and high homicide rates and that increasingly sophisticated methods of disrupting Canadian gangs involved in drug distribution could unintentionally increase violence. " https://www.bccsu.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/violence-eng.pdf

Excerpt from 2020 study in American Journal of Public Health. "opioid-related law enforcement drug seizures were significantly associated with increased spatiotemporal clustering of overdoses" https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307291

Headline from 2025 Reason article. "A New Study Adds to the Evidence That Drug Busts Result in More Overdose Deaths." https://reason.com/2025/03/20/a-new-study-adds-to-the-evidence-that-drug-busts-result-in-more-overdose-deaths/

There's a ton of research which clearly shows that big drug busts:

- cause more violence

- cause more overdose deaths

- have no positive benefits

(I'm not saying cartel leaders are all great people, I'm saying the best and only way to put them out of business is to end the drug war.)

Photo of a finger trap puzzle.

The global drug war is like one of those finger traps.

We keep pulling as hard as we can, and we just get stuck tighter.

"If we just tighten the penalties more, kill more drug dealers, we'll be free!"

The real solution: relax, stop fighting, and the problem that seemed impossible will vanish.

Who loves the war on drugs?

Drug cartels! They love prohibition the most.

The drug war keeps cartel profits high, keeps competition low, and gives them a monopoly on a lucrative business.

The only way to end the cartels, end gang violence, end drug deaths, is to END THE DRUG WAR!

The cause of violence in Mexico is the same as the cause for overdose deaths on our streets.

The "war on drugs" is a forever war with no winners, which brings only misery and death all around the world.

Who benefits? Drug cartels, police budgets and politicians.

Who is harmed? Everyone else.

The more we fight the cartels, the more violence & death we create.

Mexico began using the army to fight cartels in 2006. The direct result has been more drugs & death than ever.

The "war on drugs" causes all the harms it claims to prevent.

For a safer, healthier planet, we must end prohibition.

If the 2nd Amendment said people have the right to take drugs and get high, America would be a much better country.

Please show me a single study which claims that cannabis is more harmful than alcohol. That's nonsense.

Except cannabis is a much safer alternative to alcohol and many other substances.

In Canada where cannabis is legal, cannabis is covered in warning labels, while alcohol is sold with no warning labels. Since alcohol is clearly more risky and harmful, this seems like a bad policy.

Maybe this is because being arrested and/or jailed for cannabis is very bad for mental health.

Headline: Incarceration can cause lasting damage to mental health.

Article excerpt: Being in prison is known to adversely affect mental health, but it’s not just the 2.2 million people incarcerated in the U.S. who suffer. According to a new UCI study, the 12.2 million individuals arrested every year also experience mental health repercussions. “For the first time, our research documents the significant association between arrest and mental health issues,” said lead author Naomi Sugie, assistant professor of criminology, law & society. “Arrested people face social stigma, feelings of powerlessness and alienation, time-consuming bureaucratic processes and uncertainty about the future – all of which stress mental health.”

Maybe this is because being arrested and/or jailed for cannabis is very bad for mental health.

The "war on drugs" has never been anything else but an excuse to punish, imprison and control the poor and racialized peoples of the world.

Until we end this global pogrom we will never know peace.

Once our sacrifice, civil disobedience and activism gets shrooms legalized in a few years, this guy will open a licensed psychedelic shop and then start complaining about the competition again.

What a maroon!

How about showing some gratitude for those who paved the way for your shops to exist?

Complaint letter from Harp Hoonjan at Imagine Cannabis, sent to City of Vancouver, complaining about our cannabis/mushroom dispensary and demanding we be shut down.

Letter going on complaining that our cannabis and psilocybin sales "put public health at risk" and threatening me and our landlords.

Harp Hoonjan of Imagine Cannabis demands the city reply to him within 5 days or else he's going to take matters into his own hands somehow.

We've had our cannabis dispensary in the West End since 2010.

Some might say that without my efforts, cannabis wouldn't now be legal in Canada.

But now this newer dispensary nearby is complaining to the city to get us shut down.

He doesn't even want us selling shrooms!

Trudeau and Obama walking together smiling.

I miss the good old days.

Decriminalization worked. B.C. killed it anyway ⋆ The Breach The province’s drug decriminalization experiment lowered arrests and reduced harm—but it failed a different political test

Decrim was working, but the B.C. government killed it anyway.

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Maybe the Democrats should have made some effort to get the Epstein files out while Biden was President.

Vancouver's progressive parties need to unite if they want to win and govern.

Another reminder; eight Vancouver cops participated in killing Chris Amyotte with so-called "non-lethal" rounds in 2022.

Part of the rise of fascism is allowing police violence to go unpunished. It is happening in Canada as well.

Timeline of police-involved beating death of Myles Gray in B.C. The Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner of British Columbia begins a public hearing on Monday into the police-involved death of 33-year-old Myles Gray more than 10 years ago.

A reminder; seven Vancouver cops beat an unarmed man to death in 2015 and none of them have been held accountable.

Part of the rise of fascism is allowing police violence to go unpunished. It is happening in Canada as well.

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This is very rapey talk.

Family of Myles Gray shouldn’t have to ‘rely on charity,’ lawyer says before hearing As a public inquiry into the beating death of 33-year-old Myles Gray at the hands of Vancouver Police Department Officers more than a decade ago is set to begin Monday, the lawyer representing the man’s family says his loved ones shouldn’t have to rely on pro-bono counsel.

Family of Myles Gray shouldn’t have to ‘rely on charity,’ lawyer says before hearing

We should be announcing the end of the drug criminalization experiment, which has failed terribly and causes nothing but misery and death in Canada and around the world.

Have a Merry-Juana Christmas everyone!

What’s at Stake During DULF’s Constitutional Challenge | The Tyee The case’s outcome could affect the founders’ criminal charges, and Canadian drug laws. A Tyee explainer.

Drug User Liberation Front's founders are arguing their members’ constitutional rights were violated by part of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.