Prohibition CAUSES Drug Abuse

Humans and all other living creatures have basic drives which include hunger, thirst, sex, and The Urge to Change Their Mind. To change their consciousness temporarily. Cats enjoy catnip, elephants seek fermented fruit, birds seek certain berries and seeds, small children spin around until they get dizzy, to change their minds. Every species studied has this drive. So the idea of a "drug-free society" is absurd, especially one promoted and financed by the alcohol, tobacco and pharmaceutical industries and their propaganda machine, the fraudulently named Partnership for a Drug-Free America.

Instead of using plants that have never killed anyone, why use injurious, lethal but legal substances and concentrated chemical poisons which kill a half a million people every year? Think about that! A half a million! A neighbor of yours, maybe blocks or miles away, but still a neighbor. One? Two? Three? people of every thousand, every year. DEAD! Some people may claim they don't use any "drugs". But how many of them are addicted to what Karl Marx called "the opiate of the masses" religion which has killed far more people than all plants and chemicals combined?

The Most Useful Plant on the Planet is as American as apple pie. Towns were named for it. Most of our homespun clothing and the sails for our ships were made from it, as were our first flags DON'T TREAD ON ME. During some colonial times, it was illegal NOT to attempt to grow it. Bibles were printed on paper made from it. The seeds, which may be half the weight of the entire plant, contain the highest percentage of useful protein of any plant. The edible oil from the seeds can also be used in paint, as a lubricant and as a diesel fuel. It was, and still is, the most effective medicine for many ailments. It is the most highly evolved plant on the planet. What higher goal could it have than to be useful to the animal at the top of the food chain and help that animal become the most highly evolved species on the planet? Gandhi said that if God were to appear to a starving human it would be in the form of food. If God has appeared to us as a plant, surely it is Hemp. But Hemp Cannabis sativa was competition for synthetics including plastics such as polybrittle and polytoxic so We the People were brain-polluted into hating and fearing it, so now its slang name causes too many of us to react as if they'd seen Dracula. It was outlawed. A prosecutor said of it "We don't want that kind of society in this county." Now people are persecuted for having anything to do with it even research. They are being imprisoned; their homes and property are being stolen. How long until they are burned at the stake again? How long until YOU are dragged away, guilty or not?

Equally incredible are the legendary benevolent properties of a wine made from the Divine Plant of the Incas. In its natural form the coca leaf is self-limiting thanks to its other constituents. Pope Leo XIII regularly enjoyed Vin Mariani and gave a gold medal to its creator and declared him a benefactor of humanity. His successor did likewise after Leo died at the age of 97. It cured alcohol, tobacco and morphine addiction and was used to prevent diphtheria and influenza on American hospital ships. Despite all this, it was outlawed by the Harrison Act in 1914. Also forbidden is the African vine iboga, which has been proven effective in curing heroin and cocaine addiction. It has been forbidden for twenty-five years ever since the government was informed about its wonderful potential. Prohibition of natural plants causes abuse of concentrated, "white powder" chemical poisons; it causes abuse, devastation and death.

"Protect the Children!" How?

"They recognize the normality of the human drive to experience altered states of consciousness periodically and the prominence of the drive in growing children. Rather than try to thwart the expression of this need, the Indians choose to introduce children to these experiences by letting them try drugs under supervision. Supervision is provided by the tribal expert in such matters, usually the witch doctor. It is noteworthy that the witch doctor is a drug expert solely by virtue of his own experience; because of his familiarity with states of consciousness induced by drugs he is considered qualified to guide others through these experiences." Clues from the Amazon in The Natural Mind by Andrew Weil M.D.

Instead, American parents drink the distilled waste of fungus alcohol in private and in public and let their children discover it for themselves. The waste kills over a hundred thousand people every year and is a factor in over half the violent crime. They also let their children become addicted to the most radioactive, most carcinogenic, most addictive plant on the planet, tobacco, available in vending machines. What about the cost of this War Against Human Nature? We could turn our apparently doomed economy around with better living thru more use of nature and less use of chemistry. Instead of committing genocide against The Most Useful Plant on the Planet, we should grow it and provide jobs growing, harvesting, processing and distribution of Hemp fiber for textiles, clothing and housing, pulp for paper, seeds for food and oil, flowers for medicine and recreation, leaves for fuel, recreation and fertilizer. It has over 50 000 commercial uses. Instead of smuggling chemical poisons into the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, why not import the fresh leaves and pure extract of The Divine Plant of the Incas? "The law is an ass, an idiot." Charles Dickens wrote that over a hundred years ago. The only laws that are reasonable and proper regarding Your Right to Change Your Mind already exist in disorderly persons and similar statutes, truth in packaging laws, and laws protecting children.

America's media have virtually ignored the RElegalization of botanicals and synthetics occurring in a significant number of civilized countries around the world Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, to name a few. Public opinion polls here in America once the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave indicate that a growing number now nearly HALF! of our people realize society would be better off if everyone were Free to Choose whether they Change Their Minds. Given the facts, everyone except incurable Puritans and Statists would vote for Freedom and Responsibility. Cynics suspect that when polls indicate a majority of We the People favor freedom, no more polls will be taken. How would Americans two hundred plus years ago, who fought and killed and died for freedom and less taxes, feel about two-legged sheep begging to be taxed for enjoying a natural urge? The Most Useful Plant on the Planet should be so omni-present that The Flowers Are Free.

"I'd like to give you a copy of the authoritative historical record of the Cannabis plant, its prohibition, and how Hemp can still save the world: The Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer. There's a string attached: you have to agree to read it. You and not an aide or subordinate. When you have read it, if you conceal the information in it, you will be guilty of a crime against humanity. At the next Nuremberg Tribunal, I don't want the accused claiming they didn't know. "I was only following orders" should not be an acceptable defense FOR ANYONE. We need to not only RElegalize plants and chemicals; we need to abolish not only the Rockefeller drug laws, but ALL laws that deprive We the People of our Rights and Freedoms. We have far worse laws than the one being discussed here today, among them are the forfeiture laws that encourage the federal Gestapo and local Blue Bludgeons to steal people's property. The government is becoming addicted to forfeiture. I find myself wondering just how much more will We the People tolerate? Jefferson wrote that the spirit of resistance must be preserved among the people. It has, at Ruby Ridge, and Waco, and elsewhere. The Waco Massacre will be the Guernica or Lidice of Big Brother's War Against We the People. I once wondered when We the People should take up guns against the government. The answer is obvious: the time to use our guns against the government is when the government comes to take our guns." All of the above were most of my comments at hearings on the Rockefeller Drug Law twenty years later.

District Attorneys and other pigs favored it; everyone else was opposed to it. David Crockett of NY Drug Policy Reform told Dana Beal that we would never get legalization [sic; he meant RElegalization] as long as Dana was involved. Later, radical Dana, who's been fighting in this war for twenty-five years, opened up to me for the first time and told me I was too radical. "OK, Dana, now you can be the moderate." I forgot to include JFK's "Those who make peaceful change impossible, make violent change inevitable." It was only later I learned that America's Micro Holocaust at Waco occurred on the anniversaries of both the Battle of Concord and the uprising against the Nazis by the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Narkspeak vs. Freespeak
in The Narcocracy's War Against We the People

Our calendars indicate this is 1993. If you're Jewish, you think of it as 5753. If you're Chinese, it's the Year of the Rooster. If you're paranoid you should think of it in terms of George Orwell's 1984. So it's 1984 plus 9. IF you're paranoid?? Shouldn't you be? Paranoia is a logical condition in a Police State such as ours, where people are deprived of their rights, their property is stolen, they are imprisoned and murdered. America - once the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave - has gone from the Spirit of 1776 to 1984.

In America there are far more similarities to Orwell's fictional Hell than there are differences. We too have Newspeak - a language created by our Big Brother - the government and the media.

"When the other side starts using your language to describe reality, you start to win." Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

We the People have been using the words of the government and the media - all our lives! If we use their words, how can we communicate our ideas? The so-called "war on drugs" is a war on human nature, a War Against People. Humans and all other creatures with awareness have basic drives which include hunger, thirst, sex, and The Urge to Change Their Mind. To change their consciousness - temporarily. Elephants seek fermented fruit, birds seek certain berries and seeds, cats enjoy catnip. Small children spin around until they get dizzy, to change their minds. Every species studied has this drive.

(1) So the idea of a "drug-free society" is absurd, especially one promoted and financed by the alcohol, tobacco and pharmaceutical industries and their propaganda machine, the fraudulently named Partnership for a Drug-Free America. Instead of using plants that have never killed anyone to Change Our Minds, why do we use injurious, lethal but legal substances and concentrated chemical poisons that kill half a million people every year. A neighbor of yours. One or two or three people of every thousand, every year. DEAD! "We have to sharpen up our rhetoric." One of us made this point at a recent conference. Moynihan had referred to "the other side". But we are not involved in a sporting event, a game such as touch football. "You guys lost; you pay for the beers." It is not a game; it is a War. They are The Enemy. One major difference between Vietnam and this war is that we are being killed more slowly. We are "only" having our property stolen and "only" being imprisoned. "The difference between the correct word and the almost correct word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug" Mark Twain didn't write that; I did. He used the word right, but correct is a better word because right has two meanings: correct and a direction. Three, if we count the homonym write. If the difference between the correct word and the almost correct word is that great, what is the difference between the correct word and the totally wrong word? Everyone knows that Pavlov conditioned dogs to salivate when he rang a bell. We all have seen how people react to certain words. They don't salivate; they get irritated or they erect an Invisible Shield. Whatever else you say is stopped by or filtered thru that Invisible Shield. Before you use a word, any word, think about it. What effect will it have? Will it convince, or will it alienate? We need both a "hit them over the head with a two-by-four" way of communicating - to wake them up, and a kinder and gentler way of communicating - to sneak up on people and avoid that Invisible Shield. We don't have much time, only a few seconds, until they lose interest or go back to sleep or erect the Invisible Shield. We don't have time to explain anything that isn't "perfectly clear". By the time you are explaining "What we really mean is . . ." it's too late. SAY WHAT YOU MEAN AND MEAN WHAT YOU SAY. They have conditioned us since birth primarily with words, but also with images.

A man in the Police State of New Jersey - two hundred years ago the Crossroads of the Revolution - was shot in the back and killed by police, while running away, for possession of flowers. The grand jury did not indict the Blue Bludgeons who murdered him. Because of one scene in the film The French Connection, in which Popeye Boyle shoots a "drug smuggler" in the back, people have been conditioned to tolerate an act which should have gotten the perpetrators thrown off the police force and charged with murder. A freedom fighter called police "the finest". I don't know if he was being facetious. The SS were "the finest" of their time, but I doubt that concentration camp residents thought of them that way. Residents? You wouldn't call them residents? What then? Guests? No? What then? Prisoners. Victims. Very good! Altho the SS and other underlings may have claimed they were only following orders, the American SS should not be allowed that defense at the next Nuremberg Tribunal. "Kill them all and let God sort them out." Let's go thru Narkspeak and create Freespeak. "Abuse" is defined as any use whatsoever of ANY substance which The Enemy decided is illegal. If you mean "misuse", use that word and if you mean "use", say it and don't sound apologetic about it. Use is normal; use is natural. "Altering" means changing, but "mind-altering" now has a negative image. Wouldn't you like to have your mind enhanced by something (not a "substance" - that word now has a negative image) "mind-enhancing" rather than "altered" by something "mind-altering"? Apologist means defender but sounds wimpy, as if one is apologizing. Wimping doesn't win wars. Lawyers are almost universally despised, unless we need them, but attorney doesn't sound quite as negative. What about criminal defense attorney? Criminal is defined as "one who has committed a crime." The defendant is guilty by definition. Why not Constitutional rights attorney or citizen's defense attorney or defense attorney for the criminally charged? Our country was founded as a Constitutional Republic designed to protect the rights of the individual, but has degenerated into an oligarchy (government by the few) disguised as a democracy - majority rule - MOB rule. Democracy happened in Alaska where an ignorant and Puritanical MOB outnumbered intelligent free people and, despite NO increase in crime, with NO justification at all, recriminalized Cannabis. Socrates was forced to drink hemlock because he taught students that democracy could not work. When the Iron Curtain crumbled, the words for freedom and liberty in eastern European languages were deliberately mistranslated by the media as democracy. If you mean Liberty or Freedom, use those words. If you still think democracy is a good thing, remember that you learned about government in schools owned and operated by the government. Far too many people have problems with the idea of freedom - their own and other people's. To some it means the irresponsibility of others. Let's think of Freedom AND Responsibility. Neither without the other. The word Administration as in Drug Enforcement Administration and Food and Drug Administration causes people to imagine lard-assed bureaucrats in ties and white shirts sitting at desks and shuffling papers. The reality is your worst nightmare when they crash thru your door moments after The Midnight Knock. I think of them as Gestapo, but my favorite supporter of Our Right to Defend Ourself and Others and Property by any means necessary, Jeff Cooper, whose credentials are too numerous to list here, pointed out that the Gestapo was a secret organization. Gestapo stands for Geheimnis Staats Polizei. Geheimnis means secret. It was never the enforcement arm of the Nazi party. When dirty work was to be done, it was handed to the Sicherheitsdienst or SD (Security Service). OK, Jeff, but I'm going to call "the suits" Gestapo because it's a powerful image, and I don't suppose I'll hear from a Gestapo Anti-Defamation League, if there is one. "We were misunderstood and we weren't as bad as the LAPD pigs are."

Would you prefer a "dose" of something or an "experience"? Have you ever had a "dose" of gonorrhea or castor oil or some other unpleasant medication? The word experience is neutral. "Drug" should not be a four-letter word. Once upon a time, we had drug stores. Now people call them pharmacies. In Newspeak, drugs are illegal and bad; medication is legal and good. Are there any "drugs" that are legal and bad, or illegal and benevolent? Of course, but The Enemy doesn't want to discuss them. I think of the latter as "keys", Keys to the Doors of Perception. To paraphrase William Blake, If the Doors of Perception (2) were opened, everything would appear to us as it is, infinite. Instead of calling them drugs, let us use terms which describe their actions accurately and positively, if appropriate: euphoriant, cognitive activator, creative enhancer, relaxant, energizer. (I don't think Eveready has exclusive rights to ALL use of that word.) In some cases the chemical name (diacetyl morphine) raises no red flags that the trade mark (heroin) does. George Carlin commented on the terms Drug Lord and Drug Czar. How about calling the latter the Drug Fhrer? In print it looks good, but spoken it could be confused with "drug furor". It is still preferable to a word that glorifies him. Drug Bizarre is a realistic title. Have you ever tried "counting sheep" to sleep? One visualizes, imagines, HALLUCINATES, the sheep. The act is beneficial. Hallucinations may be harmless as long as we can distinguish illusion from reality. But the word is now a part of Newspeak so we should avoid using it and refer to visualizing or imagining. What image do you have of the word illicit? Imagine it spelled ill-licit What about outlaw? "Outlaws make moral judgments about the outcome of their actions. They break - or ignore - specific laws, laws they find more harmful than the outlawed activity. An outlaw is a philosopher, an existentialist - a criminal is merely a parasite."

(3) Let's refer to forbidden, banned substances as outlawed. And remember! Outlaws have to be honest. It must have been someone like the euphemizer who created the expression "Social Services client" for what some of us think of as a "welfare parasite" who created the expression intravenous drug user. A methamphetamine dealer once told me "'Needle freaks' is all I ever heard them called." They are freaks, unless they are normal, and the rest of us who do NOT stick needles into our arms are the "freaks". Are they called intravenous drug users to give them dignity? Why? They don't have, and probably are too far gone to want, dignity. They are spreading fatal diseases. In a more intelligent society, they would be rehabilitated or quarantined. Altho intravenous drug user is a neutral expression and doesn't glorify them - we don't hear "Ah wants ta grow up to be a intravenous drug user" - it doesn't have the negative image it needs to discourage children's and adults' natural curiosity. I recall a cartoon in The Realist showing Alice in Wonderland looking at a syringe with instructions on it "Inject me." Hmmm...

Even the most enthusiastic advocate of freedom does not want legalization. Huh? Let me explain. Everything that is illegal was once legal. We want them legal AGAIN. We want RElegalization. Even our most fanatic enemy, Gabriel Nahas uses the word relegalize. Legalize sounds new and untried and the brain-polluted two-legged sheep fear anything new and untried. Let's RElegalize the way it was in the "good old days." One of our people used the expression "loyal opposition". Loyal . . . to whom? Opposition? That's a wimpy word for . . . The Enemy. His defense? "Someone else used it." Nowhere is the conditioning more obvious than in the story of the Most Useful Plant on the Planet and the "m" word. The Enemy couldn't outlaw Hemp so they changed its name. They brought the "m" word into the language with a negative image which used our xenophobia, our prejudice, our superstitiousness and for half a century - two generations! - the media and the government bombarded We the People with that negative image. Why are we surprised when the conditioned, the brain-polluted, react as they do? Everyone who has participated at a Hemp display at a county or state fair understands. When the two-legged horses, cows, sheep, pigs, and vegetables see the Hemp cloth, the string, the paper, the nutritious seeds, the edible oil from the seeds, the Hemp seed cake, they are interested. They are still interested when we describe the benevolent, non-toxic (no one has ever died of an overdose) therapeutic and recreational properties of the flowers. But the instant they see and recognize the leaf, or the "m" word, they react like a prospective victim seeing Dracula. The Invisible Shield goes up. Instantly! We've lost them. What can we do? What should we do? Don't use the "m" word until we've reached them, until they understand, until they have overcome the decades of programming and conditioning. When dealing with Puritans, we cannot overcome that lifetime of conditioning in just a few minutes. The most we should realistically hope for is that they remain sleeping. They will, as long as we don't push the wrong buttons. If they learn about proposed legislation about m----- ---, the "m" word will get them involved - against us. But if legislation proposes deregulating agriculture, development, production, distribution and use of domestic and imported Hemp they will quite probably remain asleep. It should frighten you that their vote counts just as much as yours does. It should frighten you enough so you treat them with the respect an enemy deserves.

How should we describe Cannabis' effect on our consciousness? "High"? "Stoned"? "Wasted"? "Wrecked"? Hardly. The best description I ever read of the effects of small amounts was "a magnifying glass on the senses." (4) It focuses our attention the way a magnifying glass does. Larger amounts relax a person. It is difficult for anyone to argue against relaxation. Mention Hemp and most people think of rope. Mention Hemp flowers and they have a positive image. Virtually no one has a negative image of flowers, unless they're familiar with Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil, or is a botanist or forager familiar with plants which contain toxins. Or someone who referred to plants' "blatantly displayed sexual organs." We should capitalize the word Cannabis because it is scientific convention to capitalize the Latin name for a genus, as in Homo sapiens. I capitalize Hemp because it is special. Some of us consider it a sacrament. Let the English teachers complain. (They won't.) Why don't We the People call The Enemy's organization the Partnership for an Alcohol and Tobacco America? That's what they are! Let them try to deny it! How can we effectively criticize something which has a positive, benevolent name? Actually, they are the Conspiracy for an Alcohol and Tobacco America but we may be getting too far away from the original expression for people to recognize it. "Protect the children" causes the brain-polluted to freak out in the usual manner. Why don't we talk about candy for grown-ups? Candy is an accurate description: too much is harmful. User is neutral as in computer user but with the word drug in front of it, it is pejorative. One of us boasted he'd been a "user for forty-five years". It takes courage to admit this. I suggested he use the word enthusiast or advocate instead. He refused. I should have suggested user and enthusiast because I wonder how someone could be a user for that long without being an enthusiast, unless he is an addict. How many of us use the expression under the influence and why? Under is usually thought of as negative, below. A bumper sticker urged "Please don't drive under the influence of anything." That may sound reasonable, if you say it fast and don't stop and think about it. "Under the influence of anything"? What about traffic signs? "Under the influence". Below. Let's start with neutral expressions. Influenced by. "Influenced by" is neutral. Please don't [do whatever] when influenced by anything. Will you agree to that? I hope not! "Please don't drive when your awareness is impaired by anything" is OK, but why not deliver a positive message instead? Why not? Certain bumper stickers cause you to lose the anonymity of the flock. Protective coloration is one of nature's techniques for survival. What if something influences you favorably, beneficially? What if it improves, enhances whatever you are doing? Don't you have the Right and the duty, to use it? Many people who are experienced drivers and smokers of Hemp flowers are sure that when they are slightly influenced by Hemp flowers they drive better. "We don't crash; we just miss our exits." It has been proven, demonstrated, in a carefully controlled test in the June 1980 Car & Driver. The editors, all experienced at performance driving (one was among the thirty-three drivers good enough to enter the Indianapolis 500 race), set up a slalom race course, and got out stopwatches and joints. Hidden under the title "Puff, the Dangerous Driver" and in the negative rhetoric about the admittedly negative effects of large amounts was the FACT that all of them, ALL of them, were even better when they were slightly influenced by Hemp flowers than when they were "straight", "normal", "at baseline". The Enemy will claim that it was not a statistically significant sample. OK. Let's do more tests! One's performance, and not what is in one's system, is, or should be, what matters.

Before reentry during some of the space shots astronauts were ordered (the media used the word "ordered") to use amphetamine to enhance their awareness. During Operation Desert Storm our pilots were issued amphetamine. They fought the war on drugs - literally! There is an unconfirmed report they were also shown X-rated films to raise their testosterone level. I began this on a depressing note and I will end it on one. Here's a typical sentence in Narkspeak and then in Freespeak. "Since 1972 more than 140 local, state, and federal officers have been slain attempting to enforce the drug laws." "Since 1972 only about 140 pigs have been exterminated for persecuting us, while they murdered thousands of citizens." Too inflammatory for you? Ok, just stay asleep and go to the concentration camp, ah, relocation center, when they tell you to. I've been amazed and saddened to observe how difficult it is for many of We the People to overcome a lifetime of conditioning in Narkspeak and speak and write Freespeak instead. Here's a dictionary of it you can study and keep next to your word processor. Additions are welcome.

WHAT WOULD YOU ADD?

(1) This was first proposed in The Natural Mind by Andrew Weil, M.D. Intoxication by Ronald K. Siegel Ph.D. was all about it with many examples.
(2) He must have meant windows, not doors. Unless the doors were transparent, what good would cleaning them have done?
(3) Richard Stratton, High Times, January 1992
(4) "Interview With a Pot Smoker" by John Wilcock, The Realist #52, New York