Tagged with War on Drugs

Marijuana Legalization is Not Enough! Envisioning a Post-Prohibition World

The drug war edifice is cracking and the end of prohibition may be nigh. The future of cannabis is up for grabs -- as much as anything can be in our ailing, corporate-dominated culture. So why not think big? Here are some ideas. (more)

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Drugs and Redemption: An Interview with Charles Shaw

Mark Heley

Charles Shaw is the author of the gritty memoir Exile Nation, a story about "drugs and redemption." In this interview, Shaw discusses drug culture, cultural attitudes towards addiction and altered states of mind, and what paradigm shifts are necessary as we move forward. (more)

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Drug War: The Horror of Peter Hitchens

Simon G. Powell

The War Against Some Drugs Some of the Time can never be won. I wish we could switch the area of focus from illegal drug users to the people evincing extreme oppression -- all those grim authority figures who wag their fingers and viciously condemn and demonize other people simply because they are exploring altered states of consciousness. (more)

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The War on Consciousness

Graham Hancock

It is exceedingly strange that we have empowered faceless bureaucratic authorities to send armed agents to break into our homes, throw us into prison and deprive us of our income and reputation simply because we wish to explore our own consciousness. Yet without sovereignty over our own consciousness, we cannot in any meaningful sense be sovereign over anything else either. (more)

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