> and unfortunately, the fact that modern medical science just does not have effective treatments available for some of these conditions.

I suspect that many psychiatric illnesses are indicative of metabolic disorders, and/or malnourishment. An effort to apply the findings of physiology to psychiatric practice would certainly lead to an Understanding that would allow effective treatments to become mainstream.

> Branding these people as criminals and throwing them in prison is outright cruel.

In the future the 'war on plants' will certainly be recognized as a crime against humanity, or at least as society's autoimmune disease.