We are seeing a wave that is about to crest. A war on drugs didn’t work. We need to take a new look at the prevalence of drugs (prescription or otherwise) in our 21st century culture and come to some consensus of a better way to accept it and deal with it. What we’re doing isn’t working.

Voters narrowly made Denver the first U.S. city to decriminalize psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in “magic mushrooms.”