the drug war makes sense when we look at how drugs are legislated- including pharmaceutical drugs (like patent laws). Why, for example, has MDMA been listed as an illicit drug when, not only does it simply make a person feel real good and happy, but researchers have shown that it can be useful for people with post traumatic shock syndrom (by taking MDMA victims of traumatic experiences like violent rapes and car accidents were able to be rexposed to the memories of the event, re-experience it without the terror, which helped them to come to terms with it as opposed to repressing it and blanketing the traumatic event like it never even happened). Weed is legislated because there is no way to otherwise control it, anyone can grow it in their back yard whereas it would take a factory to produce enough beers to last a frat's weekend).

I once heard that the reason why taking acid has become incriminating is because using it changes the way a person thinks. By doing so it exposes people to, oh my god, new ideas and beliefs. it changes the way people look at the world consequently. This upsets people in positions of power who want to maintain their status, they don't care about self-exploration or astral projection, all they know is that the more they have- the more they have to loose, and yet they will always want more!. Because these people in power want to sustain themselves and don't want any change in the system which they are a part of, they go out of their way to control any medium that might help transform people in trancendent ways. Not only are legislators concerned with this (maintaining power), but they fear (the unknown). They fear what might happend if people could freely take chemicals to enhance their being because they don't want to even bother trying it out for themselves, so they try to stop it in the best ways that they know how- by making laws.