I'm part of the decriminalization movement where I'm at. I personally don't care for legalization. I read up about "Compass Pathways" and was horrified. They pay $1000 per gram of psilocybin. I wonder what they're planning to charge for it? When you involve medicine and insurance companies 20 bucks worth of special K is sold for $957 as a depression treatment in a clinical setting. Pharmaceutical companies absolutely have their profits at the heart and soul of every discussion and the vision for their companies are to greedily make mounds of money no matter who it hurts.
I did a lot of research several years ago and "the medical community" has known since the 60's that psilocybin is extremely effective as an antidepressant, it repairs the brain and stimulates new cell growth and is a far more effective pain killer for "nerve pain" (back and neck) than oppiods. It didn't surprise me at all that all this research led to it being classified as a schedule 1 and the miracle drug Methaqualone being released about the same time. Oxy didn't make my neck stop hurting when I couldn't even move, not even 100mgs but psilocybin did, made the pain disappear altogether.
These pharma companies make me sick. I should be happy they are "making a path" but I'm not. They piled up the blockage and created the barriers to begin with so them pretending to clear the path with research and studies is ridiculous to me. All they are doing is confirming what they knew 50 years ago. They want a profit and they don't care who they destroy in the process.
I'm more for the idea of legal self growing, etc... but there is no profit in that. I'm a person that had their 'life ruined' as a teenager by cannabis laws in a place where cannabis is now a vital resource. They never apologized or said they're wrong, when I got in trouble again they tried to use it against me. Home Depot and Lowe's don't want me on their job sites because of it. (They gave me a chance to "explain my charges" it's Cannabis from 20 years ago, if that requires an explanation then they aren't worth the time it would take to tell the they are stupid) And even though cannabis is legal here somehow in the news every day they just growers and take all their legal product.