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When Connecticut legalized recreational marijuana in 2021, the state’s lieutenant governor, Susan Bysiewicz, boasted that the new law was “crafted to repair the wounds left by the War on Drugs.” The move followed the same rationale that had motivated legalization in 18 other states: fewer resources exhausted on policing a drug that legalization advocates view as largely unharmful, fewer lives derailed by what they argue to be excessive lockups. In a sense, the plan worked: Possession arrests have fallen precipitously in the years since. But as Connecticut’s number of legal neighborhood weed shops has grown, so too has a problem that the state, like others that have eased marijuana laws, was seemingly ill-prepared to deal with: the rise of illegal marijuana shops.
For everyone else: independent scientific research from both UK and the Netherlands classifies lsd and psilocybin as the least harmful drugs. Look it up.
To answer your question directly, its fear.
People fear what they don’t know.
Governments fear the potential these drugs have to make people feel aware of things they were initially not.
The hippy movement of the 60s was a long term unintended consequence of cia experiment with lsd on student volunteers. They did not like it.
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its because it’s easy to deinstitutionalize yourself while on it. I never did it, but I did something similar appreciating art and media created by people who used it.
If the drug war was suppose to help people, we would have social workers and public hospitals out the ass instead of police and just growing a psychoactive plant in a planted on your balcony wouldn’t be illegal.
LSD isn’t really necessary to realize society is fake and bullshit at the same time. You just need to consume works of art like books and artistic movies to realize we’re all just organizing around structures that don’t actually serve us and just serves the most powerful people.