The practice of using psychotropic substances for altering, enhancing, and enabling consciousness has existed from the dawn of time, and all efforts to eradicate it are based on an incomplete understanding of human nature. It is an inherent evolutive tendency of humans to attune, modulate, and regulate consciousness; as there is nothing natural about static mentation.
Awareness of the ebb and flow of perception is the quintessence of being sentient.
The Age of Reason and Enlightenment witnessed the genesis of a ‘new secular order’ in which neither King nor Pope could control knowledge or its dissemination. Peoples everywhere became aware of a new found freedom which fomented (r)evolutions, overthrew tyrannies, and coalesced
in democratic principles, founded upon the inalienable ‘Rights of Man.’
In the words of Thomas Paine, rights of this kind ‘are all the intellectual rights, or rights of the mind, and also all of those rights of acting as an individual, for his own comfort and happiness, which are not injurious to the natural rights of others.’
Humanity’s ability to alter its own brain function might well shape history as powerfully as the development of metallurgy in the Iron Age, mechanisation in the Industrial Revolution or genetics in the 20th century.
Indeed, the pharmaka DMT, Mescaline, LSD, 2C-B, MDMA, and their ‘substantially similar’ chemical cousins have already catalyzed such an (r)evolutionary transformation; unauthorised research and utilization of psychedelics, entactogens, and nootropics have pre-empted this argument by at minimum 50 years.
We have been the victim of an interference with freedom from degrading treatment and punishment, the right to a fair trial with full disclosure, the right to respect for our private life and communications, our physical and mental integrity, our freedom of thought and our freedom of belief system, our freedom of expression and our freedom to receive and impart ideas, and freedom from discrimination and assaults on our dignity.
These rights are clearly embodied in English Common Law, the Constitution for the United States of America and prescribed explicitly in the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
By interfering with matters of the mind and dictating the permissible interior conditions of its citizenry this government has grossly exceeded its legitimate power.
By prohibiting access to certain modes of thought or consciousness via drug laws, the Government is censoring cognitive processes, ideations, and information which reside, occur, or are accessible in these mindstates.
Therefore, all legislation, in any High Contracting State, pertaining to and making criminal what for many millions of persons is a biological drive to modulate consciousness, through use of molecular media, is unlawful, contravenes a plethora of Human Rights, and has indeed created
more harm than such legislations was designed and intended to alleviate.
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