Letter to Lincoln Davis
December 9th, 2006 -
Dear Mr. Davis,
I have written to you before about the “War On Drugs”, which is in fact only a “war” on recreational use of certain drugs, but that’s not a politically palatable sound-bite. An even more accurate and less politically palatable appellation would be “Prohibition”. You’ll never hear the pedantic “Drug Warriors” use that word to describe their imposition of what they haughtily call “morality” on the rest of us.
You might not have noticed it in the recent “Omnibus” Bill, but there is a provision to fund “Mycoherbicides”. Briefly, these are herbicides derived from certain mold or fungus, which the “Drug Warrior Scientists” claim will only kill coca, or poppies, or marijuana, without harming other non-recreational crops. The “scientists’” claim is a lie, they know it, and they hide evidence to the contrary. Mycoherbicides harm more than just other crops, they harm humans and livestock. If you doubt that, try eating some Mycoherbicides. Bon appetit. In plain English, the US Government poisons peasants’ fields, while maintaining the risible pretense that they’re doing the morally “right thing”.
Here’s a question that has prompted right-wing radio talk show hosts to “dump” my telephone calls: If pot, coca, and other recreational drugs are intrinsically “sinful”, why did God Create them in the first place?
God didn’t make a “mistake” in Creating these things. You in the Congress are making a huge mistake, in fact you’re “playing God”, in trying to eradicate them. You spend tens of billions of our tax dollars every year on the “War On Drugs”, on Prohibition, and all you have done is to create a Black Market, by which terrorists, illegal aliens, corrupt government officials, and other common criminals prosper. Meanwhile, drugs are exorbitantly expensive, so some people commit crimes to be able to afford them.
The “War On Drugs” is morally bankrupt and always has been. Prohibition laws proceed from the assumption that no individual is capable of “Personal Responsibility”, so Big Brother must forbid recreational use of drugs, other than alcohol (since the Supreme Court ruled alcohol prohibition to be Unconstitutional) and aspirin and Ny-Quil and a few others, which the FDA has graciously allowed us to use.
Last time I wrote to you, you said you’d keep my thoughts in mind if some other congressman were to bring the issue up. That’s not leadership, please pardon my bluntness. Obsequy is clearly not my strong suit, but I remain,
Yours Sincerely,
John Ray