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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.
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Agree, not only is he a Stupid Retard he dresses like a low class slob. Yes, pisses me off too.
Nice going Pencilvania (democrats/cheaters).
“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.”
Perfect representation for the scum that elected him.
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If your interested...there’s a good series on Netflix about Psychedelics. It goes into the history of the different drugs, and the current state of medicine/clinical trials of their use.
How To Change Your Mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8LRb4jfZ9g
Ummmm that’s not science, it’s a coin flip.
50 it’s good and 50 it’s bad or worse and that’s generous.
Damn fool.
“Thanks for the “entertainment” PA.”
Well there goes another headline for the BEE ...right into the dumpster.
own nothing and be happy .... eat magic mushrooms ...could work I guess ?
Well, what can I say. You can’t argue with results. Just look what it’s done for him.
I’ll stick to licking toads. The psychedelic mushrooms gave me headaches.
This country is going down quickly at this point.
Mushrooms have shown great therapeutic effect in PTSD patients.
Will probably be standard treatment in 10 years.
I assumed he was a psychedelic head the first time I saw pictures of him a little before his stroke. An acid head with brain damage is one of our esteemed congressmen.
Imagine if Trump had said this.
This explains much.
I agree. The clothing is very disrespectful to everyone.
I guess we now know what he was doing when he went on his long absence.
Why am I not surprised to hear what a shroom head he is
Indeed he’s a slob. But he has no clue what he’s putting on in the morning. Not his fault.
We have to be kind to the mentally infirm./sarcasm alert.
Psilocybin shown effective against clinical depression:
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