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. 
We don't need people to get "clean." We need people to start living a fulfilling life. The two things are different.
Brits have a right to die, but they do not have the right to use drugs that might make them want to live. Bad policy is indicated by absurd outcomes, and this is but one of the many absurd outcomes that the policy of prohibition foists upon the world.
In an article about Mazatec mushroom use, the author says: "Mushrooms should not be considered a drug." True. But then NOTHING should be considered a drug: every substance has potential good uses.
We've created a faux psychology to support such science: that psychology says that anything that really WORKS is just a "crutch" -- as if there is, or there even should be, a "CURE" for sadness.
You can get a Ph.D. in healthcare, and not learn a thing about the glaringly obvious benefits of drugs, as demonstrated by history, anecdote and common sense.
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.
We should start taking names. All politicians and government officials who work to keep godsends like psilocybin from the public should be held to account for crimes against humanity when the drug war finally ends.
Med-dependent patients of the world, unite -- to end drug prohibition, that is. You have nothing to lose but your prescription bottles and your status as a ward of the healthcare state.
How would we even KNOW that outlawed drugs have no positive uses? We first have to incorporate them in a sane, empathic and creative way to find that out, and the drug war makes such a sensible approach absolutely impossible.
We should hold the DEA criminally responsible for withholding spirit-lifting drugs from the depressed. Responsible for what, you ask? For suicides and lobotomies, for starters.
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