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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Fetterman and Biden have a secret language complete with decoder rings
A Hippy Neanderthal. Sweet!
“Fetterman is the chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research.”
How did a newbie, mentally unstable, stoner senator become a subcommittee chair???? Oh, I forgot — he’s a DemonRAT!!
Indeed, many benefits for sane people. But it didn’t help him and may have made him worse
There is evidence that mushrooms may help some, but the “mushroom industry” should politely ask Fetterman to never speak of them again. He can only hurt their cause.
As if he needed any new impairment in order to speak gibberish.
Showing that politicians don’t have to wait until they’re in their seventies before becoming flatline.
Please, he is one if the last people who needs that.
He misspoke. He said advocate but meant ‘addict’.
It’s bothersome(but not unexpected), that he can articulate thoughts about drugs, but not the I95 overpass collapse.
During his run for the senate, King pedoPIG the 1st stated that this jackazz would make a fine, upstanding U.S. senator....
FetterGoon is a great looking spokesman for psychedelic mushrooms. I thought he was barred from the US Senate while dressing in a hoodie and shorts.
I think we’re approaching Caligula’s Rome in depravity.
We know he’s disabled, but now they publicly display it as in “I can’t even dress myself so I wear these pull-on gym shorts & sweats...”
Sweatpants Shrek on peyote…not a good thing
He’s the veritable poster child for Food and Nutrition.
Micro-dosing psilocybin has shown a lot of promise in treating PTSD and chronic depression, but ‘shrooms contain way more than a micro-dose.
After all, LSD was originally intended to be an anti-depressant, if I remember correctly.
Seriously, what did we Pennsylvania people do to deserve this?
We have a corrupt state government that has cheating down to a science, and two cities full of lame-headed liberals who put this loon into office. Most of us in Pa flyover country (most of the state) are conservative and embarrassed by Fetterman. And don’t get me started on “Rachel” Levine!
I can testify to the fact that while under the influence of magic mushrooms, you will not ne unhappy!
The media made a big deal about his wearing hooded sweatshirts. He wore hoodies to cover up the large lipoma on the back of his neck. Now it appears he had it remove when in the hospital recently but never mentioned the fact he had surgery to remove the lipoma because the large lump is not noticeable. Perhaps he’s still covering the surgical scar.
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