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| "The beliefs a person holds determine what he will perceive of reality." T.B. Pawlicki |
"To my way of thinking, psychedelics provide the only category that is authentic enough to be legislated out of existence. They're not going to make quartz crystals or wheat grass juice illegal - these things pose no problem. But I think that we are going to have to come to terms with the psychedelic possibility. We could have a long time ago in America except for the fact that, on this issue, the Government acts as the enforcing arm of Christian-fundamentalism. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are enshrined in the Constitution of the United States as INALIENABLE rights. If the pursuit of happiness does not cover the psychedelic quest for enlightenment, then I don't know what it could mean. I think we are headed for a darker period before the light, because the self-deceiving cant of the Government on this issue is going to have to be exposed for what it is. I see the whole "hard drug" phenomenon is an enormous con game. Governments have always been the major purveyor of addictive drugs - right back to the sugar trade in England, the opium wars in China, the CIA's involvement in the heroin trade in Southeast Asia during the 1960s, and the current cocaine distribution coming out of South America. We're going to have to abandon this Christian wish to legislate other people's behavior "for their own good." ...Only when governments intervene by restricting access do things suddenly gain this astronomical worth. So it is a game that the government is playing." Terence McKenna - The Archaic Revival
