Cannabis

for it - we need them big time these days.

the old empires may have realized they had to outlaw it because it made it very hard to build armies and keep people in line - the smokers and shroom eaters did not buy into the certainty/uncertainty dynamic caused by sowb - did not fear uncertainty or crave certainty - that fed authoritarianism

sex on the wrong brain theory may explain the explosion of fascism, racism, and misogyny as what happens when large segments of the population get isolated at home with their computers, especially males.