Collectivism Vs. Cannabis

Collectivism , the foul authoritarian belief that individuals do not own their own bodies and lack the right to manage their own lives, is the single greatest threat to human growth and happiness in the modern age.  All of the “-isms” which are used to promote violence, mass incarceration, mass surveillance, war and many other abominations are forms of collectivism; the list includes (but is not limited to) racism, fascism, communism, feminism, nationalism, progressivism and theocracy.  These poisonous ideologies teach that some authority has the “right” to control individuals, to spy upon them, take their property, inflict violence upon them, lock them in cages like animals or even murder them, in the name of some nebulosity like “the State”, “society”, “The Homeland”, “equality”, “God”, “the common good”, “public order”, or whatever.  And while the ways in which the monsters advance their evil agenda are countless, today I’d like to briefly look at one small example:  the war on cannabis, invented in the 1930s by the US government as part of a racist campaign to suppress Hispanic people; continued and escalated to ensure the power and profits of various fascist stakeholders such as pharmaceutical companies, brewers, prison guard unions, the incarceration industry, cops, and politicians; and re-justified ever couple of decades since by the usual collectivist filth such as appeals to “public health”, lies about “crime”, scaremongering about “THE CHILDREN™!!!”, etc.  This common herb is not only the safest known mind–altering substance (its LD50 is so high no death from overdose has ever been recorded), it’s also incredibly cheap, non-addictive, available in as many varieties as its far more dangerous distant cousin alcohol, and capable of being absorbed into the body in a number of different ways.  Its best-known property is relaxation/sedation, but some people find it suppresses nausea and/or relieves pain; others find it has aphrodisiac effects; and studies demonstrate its effectiveness as a remedy for a number of ailments including glaucoma, arthritis and possibly even some forms of cancer.  I personally have found it invaluable for my insomnia and anxiety, and I’ve recently realized that lingering effects of daily use help me to stay calm in situations that would normally agitate me, even though I am not impaired and otherwise feel completely normal.  Even small doses dramatically increase my sensitivity to the nuances of artistic performance, and large doses have enabled a spiritual journey over the past four years which has greatly eased my troubled mind and brought me to a place of emotional peace I have never before had and never imagined I could have.  And yet, the collectivists would have me ignore all this, returning to a state of constant emotional, psychological and spiritual turmoil, because a bunch of sociopathic “leaders” who died before I was born believed it was their “right” to violently persecute their fellow humans for having darker skins than they did, and choosing a beneficial plant as the excuse for their violence.  And because other sociopaths I wouldn’t even trust to park my car, much less run my life, have chosen to inflict violence on huge numbers of people using that decades-old racist agenda as their excuse.  And because “the law is the law”.  In short, I’m supposed to hand over control of my life, my body and even my mind to a clique of violent apes who pretend that they know better about what is good for me than I do; that the majority of people think that this actually makes moral sense is the best argument for anarchism one could ever hope for.