In 2019, Oakland effectively voted to decriminalise mushrooms- a progressive move for a city with a long history of punishing its black residents for drug use. Now some black residents are using them to heal from the racial trauma they deal with in everyday life.
Psilocybin as mutual aid is going to be a powerful force. /r/unclebens is the easiest growing technique and will give you a large enough surplus to gift without thinking about the cost.
Tryptamines in particular run counter to social control arguments. Hippies are certainly recuperative social control but it's only a hippie drug because they made it illegal for all other communities that had something to lose. I hate hippies and love psychedelics from a psychiatric perspective. Beyond the empathy its real power is causing introspection. Psilocybin strips your personality and worldview at an existential level, then gives you a blank slate to reconstruct yourself. If you do a more radical version of what NIN is doing, it's inherently a drug of liberation. People come with their trauma, take it in a positive environment with an authentically supportive community, and get an extremely powerful sense of the universalised ecology our politics grow out of. If a group like the Black Panthers or mutual aid orgs have it as a tool in their de-alienation tool kit, my god is it powerful shit.