The obvious answer is that drug dealers have a larger DVD collection. The other more ominous answer lies within a slightly more challenging debate. Yes, we have physicians in this country that are some of the best healers in the world, but we also have quacks who are licensed nickel-baggers whom, whilst worrying about taxes, don’t have to worry about the law coming down. That is until people start dying. And we’re not just talking about patients here.

More after the jump–it get’s lighter and it’s an exhausting link massacre…

Take a look at MJ’s MD for example, whilst there are no charges yet, but who can deny that there is not widespread and massive abuse of prescription drugs in this country. Between that, the murderous violence that brings it to our doorstep and the untold, un-taxed billions our nation would stand to profit off it might we finally be able have this discussion in this country with out all the retards and reactionaries polarizing it? That remains to be seen, but maybe, just maybe, conservative nemesis Barney Frank’s new bill H.R.-2835 would be a good place to start. And that’s just pot.

Opiates are another thing all together. To start, one proper noun: Afghanistan. I mean, fuck that noise, but it’s certainly fascinating that eating poppies has Wallabies making crop circles in Australia where poppies are legally grown for morphine and other pharmaceutical disciplines. I mean, it would be better if there were millions of high wallabies if we could cut of the cash profits of Afghanistan for one year. The wallabies don’t sell their poppies and they don’t arm themselves nearly as well. Really, it would just be better if we didn’t give the Afghans the best market conditions in the world for their only cash crop. How to fix that problem is something that lies well beyond where I’d like to go in this post, but it begins and ends with equality.

Speaking of crop circles, I would be interested in hearing psychoactive activist Daniel Pinchbeck (who wrote an article for Wired on the wheat graffiti phenomenon) interview one of these wallabies while both ingest ayahuasca. I would then dare Wired or any other dying magazine to publish it. In any case, drug abuse is a health concern and we have enough health woes in this country that unfortunately we may lie in this bed we’ve made for a while longer, but at least things are finally moving with the generational tides.

All cannabinoids and opiates aside, Ryan McGinnis has relationships with plants (via TWBE) and that’s a good thing for him, for humanity and for the arts.

It’s just too bad that it’s so far outside our cultural norms that people believe it’s all a delusional, depraved, human disaster… that is until Johns Hopkins gives them psilocybin. It’s just curious that in this world we have  a multi-billion dollar legal drug business, a multi-billion dollar illegal drug business, both of which overlap in many, many areas, and still we have no idea what to do about it. What the fuck is health anyway? If it’s just not dying, I’m not sure if I’m in. Happy July.

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