We had a piece last week from Sam Wong about therapists who want to revive the use of psychotropic drugs—LSD, psilocybin, MDMA—for the treatment of mental-health issues. The piece resonated with a lot of readers:

Psychedelics really need to be reclassified in the U.S. It’s preposterous that completely non-addictive (even anti-addictive, if several studies are to be considered), demonstrably safe molecules, some with thousands of years of human use and almost no directly attributable deaths, should be classified as Schedule 1 drugs. Especially something like psilocybin or LSD, both of which have been shown in numerous studies to have a number of medical and psychiatric benefits with very little risk to most people.

The bottom line is that no one should spend even an hour in prison or a dime in penalty for making a personal choice to use a substance to alter their own consciousness. No other person—certainly no government—can claim any right to tell you what you can do with it. If anything at all can be called yours, it’s your consciousness.