Dear America

Dear America,

I write to you as someone who knows your promises and your failures. From the age of 17 until 23, I was arrested and imprisoned by your police state—not for harming anyone, but for the crime of trying to heal myself with natural medicine. At 19, you sought to put me in prison for 10 years of my life because I was seeking healing through psychedelic medicine. I ended up serving 4.5 years of a five-year suspended sentence.

I was lucky. My family had wealth, my father had connections, and we hired the right lawyer who knew the right judge. I benefited from privilege. But I cannot forget what I witnessed the day I was sentenced: a 19-year-old Black woman, with no priors, sentenced to three years in prison. Her only crime was poverty. Meanwhile, I—a repeat offender—walked free.

This is your justice, America. You punish the poor, reward the powerful, and call it righteousness. You claim to be a nation of Christ, but your actions worship the devil. I know this because you tried to put me in prison for most of my young life and none of you even care.

Today, the plant medicines that condemned me are saving lives. My organization works with the Department of Defense and Congress, advocating for reform and bringing forward clinical data from America’s premier research universities. This data proves what I knew all along: psychedelic medicine can heal PTSD and other wounds of the soul, especially for veterans.

I am not eligible to join our armed forces but I carry the spirit of a soldier for the Lord within me. And I promise you this: I will not stop fighting for America until I have exorcised the demons of Satan from this blessed land.

To you the citizen frankly it is time for you to wake the fuck up. Satan has lulled you into a deadly sleep. This is a call to all Christians and Jews in this land: our home is only ours if we continue to fight for it. So pick up your cross and follow me. I know the way because I am the way. I will keep walking through all the valleys of darkness, holding up the light of the Lord for all to see.

And to guide us in this fight, I ask you to join me in prayer:

The Lord’s Prayer "Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen."

Let this prayer be a rallying cry, a reminder that our fight is not just for this nation but for the soul of this world. I will not rest until this land is free from Satan’s grip and filled with the light of the Lord.

Sincerely, Matthew Weintrub