[drawkbox]

> The U.S.'s perspective on drugs is so very backwards.

The War on Drugs is a flaw that needs to end but at least with psilocybin US is moving slowly in the right direction. The only countries where psilocybin is legal are Brazil, Jamaica, Nepal, Samoa, Netherlands (truffle format), British Virgin Islands and the Bahamas [1].

Many places are illegal but unenforced though still illegal.

US psilocybin is decriminalized in many places now including all drugs in Oregon. More states need to get more like Oregon definitely.

However, in most states spores are legal and so are grow kits for other types of mycology.

Grow kits and spores legal in most states, full cultivation decriminalized in Seattle, Washington, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Denver, Colorado, Santa Cruz, California, Somerville and Cambridge, Massachusetts, Oregon and Washington D.C. [1]

Legal in Oregon for mental health treatment in supervised settings since 1 February 2021 [1]

Full legalization needs to happen for marijuana and psychedelics. Decriminalization needs to happen for all drugs minimum as well.

As far as marijuana, psilocybin and LSD, they are the least toxic and less dependency forming of most drugs, even caffeine, aspirin and more. It is a tragedy and a drug dark age that they are in the Controlled Substances Act. I believe drugs should have to be toxic or cause death to actually be on that list. Marijuana, psilocybin and LSD are very safe when it comes to toxicity and drug overdoses are non-existent, all would be better as legal safer production products.

Legality makes everything safer, increases harm reduction and reduces black market unsafe production as well as reduces funding of cartels/mafias/bratvas. Their criminality truly makes no logical sense except to invite problems.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_psilocybin_mus...

[taurath]

Just wanted to add that the US led the criminality to spread across the globe via the UN.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_Psychotropic_S...

[matheusmoreira]

Yeah. The US pretty much exports its laws. It uses its vast economic leverage to impose US laws on everyone else via trade agreements, treaties.

It did the same thing with intellectual property. It will put sovereign countries in a literal naughty list when they don't accomodate US company interests.

[joshspankit]

I wonder how much of the imposed laws are also a direct result of the Disney company (who pushed the US who pushed others)

[matheusmoreira]

They are a direct result of the lobbying of companies like Disney. It's plain to see in the naughty list I mentioned.

https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/2019_Special_301_Report...

Search the document for "interest". Plenty of talk about interested parties, rights holders. Euphemisms for US corporations using the might of the US government and its military to interfere in foreign countries. I've read some US documents discussing my country like it's a problem to be solved. Like it's a new planet they intend to terraform. It's surreal. Documents essentially saying things like "these places continue to be a problem, the local authorities aren't doing what we want them to do".

Essentially the US has "concerns" and it expects and "urges" other countries to address them by criminalizing anything that hurts the profits of US corporations, which they call "US economic interests". Yeah, because we totally have room in our prisons to lock up my country's entire population for copyright infringement. They must think we have nothing better to do.

They'll even put Canada, their neighbor and ally, in the watchlist. They write things like:

> Right holders also report that Canadian courts have established meaningful penalties against circumvention devices and services.

It's so incredibly surreal. "Yeah, our corporations have been saying you've been a good little country, Mr. Canada. Keep doing what they tell you and we might just take you off the naughty list next year." I don't even know what to say. Imagine being a politician who has to swallow language like this from world powers like the US all the time.

[joshspankit]

Ugh. The wording in this document is disgusting. It reads like it’s from the evil teacher from a movie: “The United States remains deeply troubled by the ambiguous education-related exception added to the copyright law”.

Deeply troubled? Like “We’re very concerned with your daughter’s inability to submit assignments as requested. We suspect there’s trouble at home and hope we don’t have to involve the authorities.” “You mean when you asked her to draw a cat and she drew a cat then coloured it purple?” “Yes, exactly! She must be either developmentally delayed, or poorly parented. In either case it’s very concerning.”