Posted on 06/29/2025 4:27:14 PM PDT by RandFan
Driven by a desire to help ex-servicemembers with mental illness, GOP lawmakers led a failed campaign last year to persuade the Biden administration to approve psychedelic drugs.
Now they may have found the ally they need in President Donald Trump’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
A longtime believer in psychedelics’ potential to help people with illnesses like post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, despite the lack of supportive evidence Biden officials found, Kennedy is ramping up government-run clinical studies and telling the disappointed lawmakers doctors will be prescribing the drugs soon.
“These are people who badly need some kind of therapy, nothing else is working for them,” Kennedy said at a House hearing Tuesday. “This line of therapeutics has tremendous advantage if given in a clinical setting. And we are working very hard to make sure that that happens within 12 months.”
The GOP’s embrace of psychedelics is another, and perhaps one of the more jarring, examples of cultural transformation that Trump’s populist politics have brought.
Veterans seeking cures for mental illnesses associated with combat, combined with the Kennedy-backed Make America Healthy Again movement’s enthusiasm for natural medicine, have strengthened a libertarian strain on the right in favor of drug experimentation. Meanwhile, the left, where hippies are giving way to technocrats, has become more skeptical.
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far out, man
Of course Politico puts a disgusting spin on research that could actually help some people. TDS
This stuff was used clinically in the 50s and 60s. Good results. Then the hippies made it into a party drug and abused it and there were unfortunate incidents. So it became illegal. But micro-dosing in a clinical setting can be good medicine.
To be fair and purely objective…SOME do benefit…just as SOME do benefit from the SSRI stuff he’s against! But the very reasons he claims to be against SSRI exist as risks, if not more, for psychedelics…It can be a breakthrough for some, and a devastating gateway to even more extreme psychosis for others 😕
And i hate what’s become of weed in this country…blech. So toxic when babies and others have to whiff it secondhand and thirdhand. Not saying imprisonment, but I want it illegal again with strict financial penalties…
He’s also fast-tracking self-amplifying mRNA jabs for us.
If it appears to work on most (and I’ve heard from some persepctives that is has indeed helped), then do it. The BiteMe admin personnel had nothing but contempt for the services. They probably thought they were being righteous witholding a possible solution.\ to the problem.
I was in a program with a bunch of these guys. If anything I was the least afflicted. Many carried nothing but misery.
Seeking Safety it was called.
If acid or whatever will help, get it done.
Please.
““These are people who badly need some kind of therapy, nothing else is working for them,””
THAT would fit some of the people he was addressing in the hearing.
Actually, I don’t think I’d be alive today if I hadn’t gone to a hospital in Canada decades ago, where it was legal, and had one day of LSD therapy. Changed my very unhappy life, helped me be a better mother. Never needed more.
So, handled well, and for select people, psychedelics can change your life for the better.Important though that it’s not just handed out to anyone.
There’s no bringing logic, actual experience and positivity to this emotional topic. You’ll upset some people.
If someone has something like very severe post traumatic stress that
interferes with their functioning normally, then I would view psychedelics
as sort of a ‘Hail Mary’ pass for them.
RFJ Jr is interest in looking at what works and studying what trials have said works.
The safety issue of all psychedelics is as, opposed to most other drugs, the experience with a psychedelic substance is known to have widely different effects, in terms of what happens, how strongly it happens and for how long. I have read about some trials with some PTSD service members where a trial with VA administered psychedelic ended their PTSD symptoms.
Ok I’m going to do 10 hits of acid for work tomorrow...MAHA!
That's the reason for doing it in a clinical setting, where the amount of active ingredients are precise, the dosage is managed by a medical caregiver after taking a full history and doing blood tests, and there are trained people there to help “guide the trip.”
I’ve not followed this effort, but just seeing the source, we KNOW that if Politico is against it, we know that it’s probably got more benefits than negatives. Sucks to be them.
Psychedelic benefit is like climate change. A bunch of crap,pushed by the extreme left.
so aren’t the ‘super AI’ billionaires that Pres Trump had on stage with him- They were all giddy about fast tracking mRNA vaccines with their new ‘Super AI’ that they are working on-
Turn On, Tune In, Drop out.
such a time of colorful language.
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