You can get an entire free curriculum from Open Source Society (OSS) and a lot of their classes you can get credited for, however it's mostly a curated list of free resources like classes offered from MIT and Stanford and various other schools last time I checked. Might be worth looking into.
In my opinion, for certain psychological issues mushrooms are much more beneficial than medical marijuana. However like the article states, mushrooms need to be treated with the respect they deserve and must be taken carefully and in a safe and comforting environment. I don't see this taking off yet though. The potential a mushroom trip going in the wrong direction is much more likely than THC and can be and extremely terrifying experience. I speak from experience, but if respected properly and approached in a good manner, I think they can be extremely beneficial.
I know that a lot of universities (mine included) introduce programming through object oriented programming so this could be a problem for a lot of people going into university without much if any programming experience, much like I did. I've been interested lately and reading more about functional programming though.
I don't have the statistics here but it would be interesting to see what percentage of prisoners were serving 5+ years, maybe the ratio of prisoners serving shorter sentences would make this kind of solution more plausible.
At $29 a month it's pretty steep though. I'm unable to afford it right now, however after reading the linked article I'm tempted to get a subscription.
Learning about stoicism definitely changed my outlook and attitude towards a lot of things, overall a much calmer and happier person even months into practicing the techniques
In what way is that obvious?