Telling folks how to deal with anxiety during a Drug War is like telling people how to cure a headache during a war on aspirin. The writer is forced to ignore the most obvious remedies and to give us feeble advice instead about jumping rope and focusing on brain-triggering objects. If authors were to be honest, all articles about anxiety treatment would include a disclaimer pointing out that we are not starting from a natural baseline when we search for solutions to such problems in today's world, since racist politicians have stretched a big yellow crime tape around the entire Amazon rainforest (and anywhere else where psychoactive plant medicines thrive) and told us to get our remedies elsewhere. In other words, we live in a world where we demonize and criminalize natural psychoactive substances rather than learn to use them wisely. This may leave us with nothing to do but jump rope when we're anxious (or else to follow the lead of 1 in 4 American women by becoming dependent on Big Pharma meds) but authors who write about anxiety should start pointing this out. If we don't hold the Drug War responsible for the evils that it causes and the remedies that it prevents, then we'll never regain the Natural Law freedoms that Thomas Jefferson intended for Americans to have -- namely those freedoms which the DEA snubbed when its agents marched onto Monticello in 1987 and confiscated the Founding Father's poppy plants.