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[[File:War on drugs Psychedelics.jpg|alt=War on drugs Psychedelics|thumb|'''Figure 1'''. The global War on Drugs started in the US.]] | |||
'''Through the 1950s and 1960s, more than 1,000 research papers were written about LSD, psilocybin, and other [[Psychedelics|psychedelic]] drugs. Some 40,000 subjects were given these mind-expanding agents, and great progress was made in the understanding of how they might help people suffering from depression, alcoholism, and the psychospiritual distress'''. However, due to a series of unfortunate events psychedelics were mired in political agenda starting the War on Drugs. This witch hunt which persists even today, starting in the 70's this led to the US government outlawing the substances causing a domino effect globally, ultimately ending in the 1971 UN resolution criminalising them worldwide. | '''Through the 1950s and 1960s, more than 1,000 research papers were written about LSD, psilocybin, and other [[Psychedelics|psychedelic]] drugs. Some 40,000 subjects were given these mind-expanding agents, and great progress was made in the understanding of how they might help people suffering from depression, alcoholism, and the psychospiritual distress'''. However, due to a series of unfortunate events psychedelics were mired in political agenda starting the War on Drugs. This witch hunt which persists even today, starting in the 70's this led to the US government outlawing the substances causing a domino effect globally, ultimately ending in the 1971 UN resolution criminalising them worldwide. | ||