I live and work in the industrialized west, and that characterization misses a lot of things.
This isn't derogatory, but let's call a spade a spade.
I would like there to be less stigma around doing drugs. The stigma around boring ones like THC is already starting to fade. There never seemed to be any around the most commonly used drugs (nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine) in the first place, despite all of their massive harm (alcohol and the inhaled combustion byproducts involved in smoking primarily).
Pretending that hallucinogens are some special "medicine" in a different class than someone with an anxiety disorder slamming a double rye neat after work (or a double espresso beforehand, or a smoke on their lunch break) is doing neither drug user any favors.
We are all drug users.
So yes. You want to call a “spade a spade”, and that is true from a mechanistic worldview, but it misses the point from a different worldview.
Plants also don't have consciousness. Whoever told you that they do was lying to you.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00709-020-01579-w