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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 09/01/2026

Dear blue sky. I live in a police state. ID laws are dangerous to my health.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

A 35 year old letter to the editor, written by a very ballsy 15 year old, about the Rodney King verdict.

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 21/12/2025

That's awful. Hope you feel better.

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 21/12/2025

I wish so much, that today we had these kinds of heroes. None of these Fentanyl poisoning deaths need to happen. This is all an artificial manmade problem. We must repeal the Controlled Substances Act.

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 11/11/2025

For a stronger fairer society sell all drugs just like alcohol. Far too many have died from drug poisonings. It's a policy choice to make your neighbors buy only from gangsters.

A soldier saluting the American flag.
It says November 11, 2025 Veterans Day. Remembering those we lost to the drug war.

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 11/11/2025

Not enough people ask this question. People would understand why drug cartels exist if they did.

A person being loaded into a meat wagon by a couple of EMT.
The text says When the doctors refuse to prescribe, what will you do? Protect yourself now. Sell all drugs just like alcohol.

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 04/09/2025

No, no he's not. Do you know how much fuel it costs to drive those carriers and ships around fighting a futile war against drug users? He has absolutely no problem destroying the planet.

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 04/09/2025

The flaw with their thinking is that nothing is being done to address demand for these substances. Supply side only enforcement will never work. They should have read some pages from alcohol prohibition's history. Just wasting money and lives. Everything needs to be legalized and regulated.

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 21/08/2025

Anti-drug policy directly affects doctors' prescribing numbers. Whether they do it intentionally or not the consequences are the same. Biased science means biased studies which means bad data. You can have drug discrimination, or you can have factual "evidence-based medicine," but not both.

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 14/08/2025

With Florida's ban on 7-OH they are effectively moving it from barely registering to maximum damage. Good bye independent 3rd party lab testing, known dosages, and instructions. Hello gangsters and things like Fentanyl in the supply. Market regulation was clearly the better option. Shame.

Drug harm chart. 7-OH sits 4th, near the bottom of the list. Unregulated Drugs sits at the very top of the list.

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 12/08/2025

Here is a petition to keep 7-oh users decriminalized if you would like to sign it. The reality is that this the only option a lot of people have before they are venturing into the unregulated supply. This prevents Fentanyl poisoning. www.change.org/p/urgent-sto...

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Have you seen this petition yet?

URGENT: STOP A NATIONAL 7-OH BAN & PROTECT CHRONIC PAIN PATIENTS

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 05/06/2025

Your murderous drug dealer joke flopped, because half of the population is buying their healthcare from drug dealers. The real murderers are the politicians who mandate this policy. It's kicking down on less fortunate.

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 30/03/2025

That's not necessarily a bad thing. Remember they only study things they're trying to destroy or kill, as exampled by the history. Like when people talk about "fighting addiction" they're killing drug users.

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 25/03/2025

Silver vine (Left) looks a little bit like kratom. (Right)

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 25/03/2025

Basically it's kitty morphine. www.asianscientist.com/2021/03/in-t...

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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

This video is from the Krome ICE detention center in Miami. He’s saying that they’re essentially kidnapped. You can see how overcrowded it is, and other reports have stated that the detainees are denied adequate water. Translation starts below -

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 23/03/2025

The multidistrict litigators are running the same scam they ran against Purdue and opioid users on the food industry now. Remember they created the "Fentanyl" crisis that has claimed so many lives. People with specific dietary requirements will die if they succeed in their new prohibitions.

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 20/03/2025

They're trying to create a "stimulant crisis" the way they did to opioids so they can add more bodies to the prohibition pile.

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 15/03/2025

What's tragic about this is that it does nothing to stop unregulated drug deaths. Even if 100% of Fentanyl were removed from space and time people would still be dying because the drug supply is unpredictable. Upwards of 90% of the deaths are preventable by regulating all drug use like alcohol.

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 10/03/2025

Every single problem could be ended today if all drug use were regulated just like alcohol. Remember that. Everything else is pure noise.

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 10/03/2025

Yes, but ultimately drug prohibitions are the cause of all of these problems. There are some similarities too, in the way that prohibitionists, cops, and addiction for-profit rehabs scam people, and the rhetoric used to justify oppression. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj6L...

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News reports on the 80s Crack Epidemic + more

YouTube video by Vinmoonsu

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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 06/03/2025

Big scoop following up on @readtheorchard.org's bombshell just went to Paid subscribers. It shows destruction of legally relevant documents by UofC security executives. It will be open access tomorrow AM. Meantime, make sure you've read Jeremy's ASIRT cover-up!! open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...

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How the UCP covered up police violence against the U of C Palestine encampment

The Orchard has obtained hundreds of pages of correspondence from the university's executive leadership team, campus security, Calgary police and the provincial government. Part II of II.

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 24/01/2025

I concur with the drug supply volatility explanation. People didn't stop using drugs, and there are no new legal drug stores or bars.

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 24/01/2025

Like there's no such thing as an illegal drug. They all have uses. What's happening is the government criminalizes people when they try to repair their body, and doctors refuse to provide services they need. That's the war on drugs.

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 24/01/2025

The only options are Al Capone or Budweiser. The government chooses gangsters.

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 24/01/2025

It's a vanity release because someone else is going to fill that cell. If they were concerned about safety they wouldn't make people buy drugs from shady people. Most of these deaths happen because people don't know what they're consuming.

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 24/01/2025

The political class use CBT and psychology in situations where traditionally cops and probation were used. It's basically a tool that trains people to blame themselves for circumstances and problems, rather than the system which generates them.

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Dana Larsen @danalarsen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

During liquor prohibition, 90% of the bootleg liquor sold in the USA was poisonous. Tens of thousands of people were killed. Even more were blinded or injured. This problem wasn't solved with mandatory treatment for alcoholics! It was solved by ending liquor prohibition. #drugsky

1923 Newspaper story: Poison booze took a toll of more than 2000 lives in the US during the first nine months of 1923.

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 20/11/2024

People need to become proactive. The democrats are not going to save anyone. Look at what they've done to drug users. Run for office yourself. Encourage everyone that opposes authoritarianism to run.

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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Hey ya’ll! Thanks for the follow! If you are unfamiliar with my work, I cover policing, prisons, protests, and surveillance. My work started documenting the 2020 Uprising in LA and has grown into doing investigative stories. Here’s an overview of my work: LAPD uses Israeli surveillance software

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LAPD Is Using Israeli Surveillance Software That Can Track Your Phone and Social Media

The software, built by Cobwebs Technologies, uses AI to track, surveil, and create profiles of people based on online and phone data.

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Dana Larsen @danalarsen.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

THREAD: OPIUM TEA BAN LED TO HEROIN A mild opium tea called "doda" was widely sold in Canada until 2009. Doda is made by grinding dried poppy heads & stalks into a powder, then adding hot water. Before 2009 there were zero media reports of social problems or crime arising from doda use.

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 16/11/2024

Depends if he can figure out a way to make money from it, or get some downstream benefits.

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 16/11/2024

Examine this list of uncontested seats. If we want effective drug policy we are going to need people to challenge and replace the unsympathetic guard. ballotpedia.org/Analysis_of_...

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 15/10/2024

Better questions. Why is the government making people buy poisoned Fentanyl pills? Why are they all not being regulated and sold just like alcohol?

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 15/10/2024

Drug User Liberation Front live event update will start in about 10 hours. This group does good work. #drugpolicy www.youtube.com/watch?v=waJb...

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Legal Update and Press Conference

YouTube video by Drug User Liberation Front

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 21/08/2024

So here's a study from the safer supply program, from earlier this year. Basically you can see that the drug supply became more toxic and unpredictable, and the doctors weren't prescribing the drugs people wanted / needed. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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British Columbia’s Safer Opioid Supply Policy and Opioid Outcomes

This cohort study examines whether there were changes in opioid prescribing and opioid-related health outcomes after implementation of British Columbia’s

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 29/07/2024

Is it much like moonshine bootlegging?

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 28/03/2024

108,000 people die each year from the Controlled Substances Act. Every scheduled drug is subject to adulteration and forgery, and when doctors don't prescribe drugs that people need they start using unregulated.

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 28/03/2024

If people aren't using diverted pharma drugs they are using unregulated drugs. That's what is harmful.

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 28/03/2024

That won't do much good. Every scheduled drug is subject to adulteration and forgery. When doctors don't prescribe drugs people need (which is every day) people have to use unregulated. The only way to not have that is legal drug stores and bars.

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 28/03/2024

Fentanyl isn't what's killing people. The Controlled Substances Act is killing people. Every scheduled drug is subject to adulteration and forgery, and doctors won't prescribe drugs people need. Not even the street dope is pure Fentanyl. Same thing happened when liquor was Rx only.

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 23/02/2024

Those human rights violations are still taking place against drug users. It's big business for rehabs right now.

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John @shdwstar.substack.com · 15/02/2024

This needs signatures. www.change.org/justlikealco...

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