Lawyers for a case in the high court to decriminalise psilocybin, the compound in psychoactive fungi, will argue that the laws that make it illegal are at odds with our right to freedom of thought.
What is so disturbing about this story is how after the machinery of personal destruction was set in motion, the process was manned, pursued, and then brought to completion, by leading and completely respectable members of Stellenbosch University and the legal profession.