The magic isn't in the mushroom, it's in the love, compassion, forgiveness, and gratitude that [can] emerge naturally when the mushroom god addles your brain chemistry.
Seriously, wishing someone feels regret, shame, embarrassment isn't incompatible with forgiveness. Learning difficult lessons, especially from harmful mistakes, is the only way society makes progress.
Please realize that the cohort of people we're talking about have supported policies of enslaving "others" through laws for decades and that they continue to do this today.
These policies have and are destroying communities, families, careers, lives, and to some extent, the fabric of the nation.
It's also not a coincidence these are the same people that just lost an election and are trying to overturn the result by any means.
Remember that story about raiding the home of a scientist in Florida a few days ago for doing science? That's the same people as the "anti-drug" people.
It turns out that the anti-drug, anti-transgender, anti-gay, anti-science, anti-abortion, anti-vaccine, anti-education, anti-environmentalist, anti-healthcare, anti-mask, pro-police, pro-prison, pro-corporation, pro-pollution, pro-inequality, pro-torture, pro-religion group are all the same people.
The anti-drug laws are just a symptom of a much wider societal corruption.
We can't be handing out forgiveness to our oppressors while they are still actively oppressing.
It's hard to blame them, when they're surrounded by such propaganda, and (as usual) very few people were independent enough to actually dig deep in to this themselves and find out what was really going on in respect to drug safety, benefits, and policy.
Most just swallowed the official line.
I know we're largely talking about hypothetical people, but if people were just going with the flow, I'm not sure that explains the inability to swallow the new official line.
How official is it?
In the US, at least, the government spent many millions of dollars (hundreds of millions? billions?) on anti-drug education campaigns for decades, and there was mass media hysteria against drugs for decades.
There are still no comparable pro-drug education campaigns, and while there have been some positive research results and positive media coverage on some drugs, the message overall is pretty mixed, and there's still plenty of anti-drug hysteria in the media and anti-drug messages from the government today.
It's probably going to take a long time to change the minds of most people who grew up soaked in anti-drug propaganda.
I'm not defending their stance, but I think it's easy to forget that we have a lot more information thrown at us in a given day than they probably had in a decade.
"all drugs are bad" was a "greatest generation" attitude and I'm afraid they are mostly beyond caring