Doesn’t it actually have some medical benefits such as helping with cancer or mental health problems and depression?
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People will give you some weird answers but the real thing is pretty simple. It’s just people being people in a time when mental variety and criticizing the way the world works was distasteful.
The government bans most mind altering substances unless they are specifically developed for medicinal purposes and statistically proven to treat a problem. The problem being physical ailment or simply being mentally abnormal compared to most people (adhd, depression, bipolar, etc).
Traditional values and religion basically all said that being in an abnormal state of mind and questioning the foundations of society was “the devil”. You could consume substances to reach normalcy but the opposite was bad. Mind altering substances tend to make you ask questions and think in ways you normally don’t. Therefore they were considered so poorly that politicians gained support by denouncing and banning them.
This even extended to alcohol which lead to the Prohibition. But, unlike shrooms and LSD, alcohol (and nicotine) are quite addictive. Banning it just lead to people from all walks of life becoming criminals because they sought it out. It also heavily increased crime because syndicates could make a ton of money from alcohol smuggling.
TLDR: it got banned because, traditionally, being in an altered mental state is bad. Politicians wanted traditional support and here we are now.
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