There are harmful and dangerous drugs. But the harm caused by the moral panic over psychedelics, and the expansive, unselective Drug War has caused far more dam

There are harmful and dangerous drugs. But the harm caused by the moral panic over psychedelics, and the expansive, unselective Drug War has caused far more damage. We now have a legacy of militarized policing, military-style raids on homes, and widespread neonazi ideologies and brownshirt gangs in police departments. We have privatized prisons. Predictably, that led to corruption in prosecutors and judges to fill those prisons. Predictably, too, police culture is one of violence: High rates of domestic violence among police is one of the pillars of the kind of cultural rot exemplified and spread by Andrew Tate. The real problems are not that we lack a "culture of family and community" but that, based partly on the Drug War and partly on white Christian nationalism, we have a culture of brutality.