You would think that this subject has been covered extensively in our bookstores and libraries, by the way. But you would be wrong. Most non-fiction authors censor themselves when it comes to drugs and so never connect the dots between drug policy and American capitalism. Take George Tyler, for instance. In 2016, he published "Billionaire Democracy: The Hijacking of the American Political System.14" That's a very promising-sounding title in this context! And yet the reader of that book will search in vain for references to drug prohibition. Tyler fails to note that the unprecedented outlawing of the human being's birthright to Mother Nature was brought about by the billionaires' control of the media. It turns out that the billionaire's power to control our minds through propaganda on this subject is so thorough and effective that it has rendered drug prohibition invisible, even for authors like George for whom the topic is so glaringly relevant. 
This is why the foes of suicide are doing absolutely nothing to get laughing gas into the hands of those who could benefit from it. Laughing is subjective after all. In the western tradition, we need a "REAL" cure to depression.
Racist drug warriors make cities dangerous with drug prohibition -- then they use that danger as an excuse to send in the National Guard.
Opium could be a godsend for talk therapy. It can help the user step outside themselves and view their problems from novel viewpoints.
"The Harrison [Narcotics] Act made the drug peddler, and the drug peddler makes drug addicts.” --Robert A. Schless, 1925.
There was no opioid crisis when Americans were free to smoke opium nightly in their homes. Now scientists around the country are making money hand over fist by "solving" the problem in a politically correct way, without even mentioning the drug prohibition that caused it.
Whether we judge people only by the words that they say or only by the substances of which they partake, we are ignoring the most important things: what they really mean and how they really behave.
I've found that almost no one in the medical establishment has a clue about the endless positive uses that there would be for drugs in a world in which we decided to use them as wisely as possible for human benefit.
There would be little or no profiling of blacks if the Drug War did not exist.
NOW is the time for entheogens -- not (as Strassman and Pollan seem to think) at some future date when materialists have finally wrapped their minds around the potential usefulness of drugs that experientially teach compassion.
The drug war is a scare campaign to teach us to distrust mother nature and to rely on pharmaceuticals instead.
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