I'm all for magic mushrooms and legalization, but I don't buy this 1st amendment religious exemption bullshit. The law should apply equally to everyone and everything, or it ceases to have any meaning. It's the same as the Supreme Court carving out a religious exemption to the Civil Rights act. There's no good reason why people's woo-woo beliefs somehow changes whether the law applies to them or not. It's ridiculous.

Take a cue from Toronto and do nothing*.

> A spokesperson for Toronto police, meanwhile, has told CityNews that illegal dispensaries are investigated when reports are made. The service’s drug enforcement at this time, however, is “largely focused on the trafficking of illegal drugs that are resulting in overdose deaths.” It cites the need to concentrate on the supply of fentanyl in the midst of an opioid crisis.

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/07/18/toronto-mushroom-disp...

Pretty simple: do nothing and spend police resources on violent crime instead.

This is what the city will care about? I think magic mushrooms is way lower in the “should have an idea what to do” below shoplifting and poop.

"We have tried nothing and we are all out of ideas" seems to be the response to any sort of problem in San Francisco. There are plenty of federal and state resources that can come in and handle the problem, they just have to make a phone call.

(I don't care to debate the value of mushrooms, at this point it is illegal and I am commenting on the broader ineptitude of SF city government)

In the past hackers generally sought subvert the dominant paradigm and play with uncomfortable boundaries as a result (or just to do it).

You may not like how they do it, or why they do it, but you have to acknowledge and appreciate the spirit of the exercise.

The state is afraid of mushrooms because they let users detach from the groupthink that guides the people from birth to death. The groupthink is made of many polished thought-circuits that compel an individual to do certain things, such as buying a nice car, working an office job, going to vacation on hawaii, watching tv, and so on.