Psychedelics shouldn't really be in the same category as "drugs" at all. Completely different things, users and uses. When people are talking about the problems with drugs and drug users, they are not talking about psychedelics.
Each American needs to be given the facts and then decide for themselves, just like with religion.
Every day I see people on the streets, destroyed and turned to ghouls in great part because of the well known destructive drugs. Heroin, crack cocaine, meth, alcohol. There is no reason to pretend these aren't destructive. And there is no reason to put psychedelics in the same category, because these substances have nothing in common.