If not for these reasons, they should be legal and available because no one has any legitimate right, I would argue, to tell another human being what they can and cannot do with their own consciousness. The idea that we throw people in cages for experimenting with altered states is arcane and immensely destructive to say the least.

Aside from that, how hypocritical is it of our government to tell us we can't experiment with drugs and that heroin is dangerous (which it is, don't get me wrong) while they simultaneously guard giant fields of poppy seeds and smuggle the same drugs they seek to "protect" us from right into the country.

The drug war was never about "protecting" anyone. It was about targeting the counter culture and providing the state with an excuse to round up revolutionaries and hippies and throw them in cages. This is how they fractured and dismantled the revolutionary movements of the past, and we are still dealing with repercussions today.

At the end of the day people need to start thinking about what is more dangerous: some hippies smoking weed and taking mushrooms? Or the state having legal precedent to raid your home, shoot your dog, and potentially murder someone or throw them in cages for simply possessing a substance that grows naturally in the wild?