Does Access to Natural Medicine Make a Population Healthier?

At a population level, the levels of depression, anxiety, PTSD, happiness etc. are not reliably correlated to the availability of psychedelic healing rituals, be they Western or not. AND the fact that they don’t move the needle at the population level does not mean that they don’t enable truly transformative healing at the individual and community level. It’s just that, like SSRIs, a powerful mental health tool can’t solve the big systemic drivers of a population’s mental health.