Psilocybin and other psychoactive drugs of the sort somehow affect how we see and think about things. I'm surprised more isn't being done to research these. If it can have such a profound effect on perception and personality, research into psychoactives could reveal insights into how we think and how our personalities work. Fascinating stuff.
And, it could undermine the last few decades of anti-drug propagandizing by the government, DARE, etc. If the government can't justify its War On Drugs, the billions of dollars funding it[1] would have to go somewhere else, and I'm sure the military (and other recipients of this budget) would rather keep that cash flowing.
I'm completely with you. These hallucinogenics have a growing mountain of scientific evidence pointing to their substantial, measurable, repeatable benefits. It's a crying shame that they're still being lumped in with the other destructive, unhealthy, justifiably illegal substances.
Much of this scientific evidence--enough to incite further research and almost enough to put the lie to the "no currently accepted medical use" criterion for Schedule I drugs--is decades old and often predated prohibition.
Consider how many of those problems would go away. Drugs fund crime because drugs are crime; drugs fund organized crime because getting them from point A to point B requires an organized network.
