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Sen. Fetterman Calls Himself ‘Advocate of Psychedelics,’ Promotes Mushrooms For PTSD
High Times ^ | 6/12/23 | Thomas Edward

Posted on 06/18/2023 5:18:28 PM PDT by Libloather

Sen. John Fetterman offered full-throated support for psychedelics as a form of mental health therapy, bringing the emerging drug reform movement to Capitol Hill.

Fetterman, the junior senator from Pennsylvania, made the comments on Wednesday during Senate Agriculture subcommittee hearing, saying he’s “been an advocate of psychedelics in terms of magic mushrooms for PTSD and for veterans especially.”

“I always thought it could be - and maybe I’m wrong - an amazing economic kind of boom for the mushroom [sector],” said Fetterman, as quoted by the website. “I think it could be a revolution in mental health.”

Fetterman, a Democrat who was elected to the United States Senate last year, asked Pietro Farms owner Chris Alonzo, who was testifying at the hearing, if he was “open to thinking of that.”

Alonzo, whose Pennsylvania-based farming cooperative grows white and portobello mushrooms, said his company is “absolutely open.”

“We’re entrepreneurs, but more importantly, we’re trying to create healthy food for the community, for the U.S.,” Alonzo said. “When we look at it, mushroom mycelium goes into products like furniture and soaking up oil - and the nutrition side of mushrooms we got through research through [the U.S. Department of Agriculture] with the mushroom council.”

Fetterman is the chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research. Wednesday’s hearing “focused on agricultural and economic issues critical to Pennsylvania, including expanding crop insurance to cover mushroom farmers, advocating research into psychedelic mushrooms for veterans and others with PTSD, combatting spotted lanternflies, and promoting organic farming,” according to a press release from the senator’s office.

(Excerpt) Read more at hightimes.com ...


TOPICS: Agriculture; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: dopehead; fentanyl; festerman; fetterman; igethigh; johnfetterman; junkie; magicmushroom; magicmushrooms; mushroomhead; mushrooms; pennsylvania; psychedelics; ptsd; shroomhead; shrooms
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Could explain a few things.
1 posted on 06/18/2023 5:18:28 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

What a retard.


2 posted on 06/18/2023 5:19:49 PM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: vpintheak

With advocates like Fetterman ...


3 posted on 06/18/2023 5:22:34 PM PDT by The Duke
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To: Libloather

Thanks for the “entertainment” PA.

5.56mm


4 posted on 06/18/2023 5:22:35 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go)
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To: Libloather

Oh yeah


5 posted on 06/18/2023 5:24:06 PM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Libloather

This is great. Fett will serve as a powerful anti-drug force. Just show kids some videos of Fett in action and they’ll be scared to touch drugs


6 posted on 06/18/2023 5:24:53 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: Libloather

I think I have discovered Fetterman’s problem!

On a side note, his insistence is dressing so casually and sloppily is an insult to the position which he holds and to the voters of this country. That one thing ticks me off to no end!


7 posted on 06/18/2023 5:24:54 PM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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To: Libloather

It’s all starting to make sense

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqr1ARaPsrg


8 posted on 06/18/2023 5:25:52 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: vpintheak

/bingo


9 posted on 06/18/2023 5:26:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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To: Libloather

I don’t have a problem with this under the right conditions. There’s plenty of evidence from medical studies showing benefits from these kinds of treatments.


10 posted on 06/18/2023 5:29:31 PM PDT by rottndog (What comes after America?)
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To: Libloather

If shrooms are beneficial to PTSD, then why is the economic boom so important?


11 posted on 06/18/2023 5:30:58 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself.)
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To: Libloather

And Florida came very close to getting Gilliam as governor. My guess is that a lot of the drug-whacked got through to our federal and statehouses


12 posted on 06/18/2023 5:31:46 PM PDT by ryderann
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To: Libloather

That’s right.


13 posted on 06/18/2023 5:32:14 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: vpintheak

Just like Brandon.


14 posted on 06/18/2023 5:32:45 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Libloather

Great...a nation of Fettermans on magic mushrooms in addition to the 100,000 dead per year due to fentanyl. Just what we need.


15 posted on 06/18/2023 5:36:28 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else.)
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To: Libloather
He's like a Special Ed version of a TikTok Influencer for the Peanuts wardrobe collection.

QUIT WASTING THE PEOPLE'S TIME!

16 posted on 06/18/2023 5:36:38 PM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: Libloather
Yeah that's the ticket. Just feed Festerman more psychedelics. What could possibly go wrong?

17 posted on 06/18/2023 5:36:40 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Libloather

“magic mushrooms for PTSD and for veterans especially.”

What would that fraud know about what veterans need?


18 posted on 06/18/2023 5:37:32 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: CFW

“That one thing ticks me off to no end!”

Two things — he’s a full retard and he dresses like an absolute PIG.


19 posted on 06/18/2023 5:37:51 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else.)
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To: Libloather

Just another example of why these people should be drug and alcohol tested on a regular basis. If I test positive I lose my job. They should be held to the same standards. Could probably clean up the majority!


20 posted on 06/18/2023 5:42:10 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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