Ninth Circuit revives petition to give magic mushrooms Schedule II status

Even Schedule 2 is too strict. It is a psychoactive with way lower rate, in fact potentially negative, of abuse and addiction. The only thing to check is if there are any toxicities involved, say, to heart valves, which is common with some SSRA. (Some of which are prescription medicines.) Probably not with the small doses that are present in typically used amounts.

My take would be standard prescription medicine psychoactive in EU, schedule 3 in USA. It's probably safer and less addictive than Prozac and less likely to be abused than Ketamine or Cannabis, owing to rapid tolerance. Definitely safer than MDMA which has known (chronic?) neurotoxicity and heart valve complications.

But we all know these are all political, these assignments. God forbid someone allowed a naturally available antidepressant, the market would crash.

From https://americanaddictioncenters.org/prescription-drugs/clas...:

Schedule I: Drugs with no current medical use with high potential for abuse and/or addiction.

Schedule II: Drugs with some medically acceptable uses, but with high potential for abuse and/or addiction. These drugs can be obtained through prescription.