President Trump signs an Executive Order directing the FDA to fast-track ibogaine and other psychedelics to treat depression, addiction, and mental illness.
The article concluded with this statement: "Psychedelic therapies represent an exciting opportunity for psychiatry — allowing patients to achieve meaningful improvements in function, symptomatology, and overall outlook in a relatively short amount of time. Though many challenges, several of which we discussed here, lie ahead, we are optimistic about psychedelics’ — and psychiatry’s — future."
This is not what happened with Covid vaccines which were rammed through and mandated. This is a very different scenario. President Trump and Secretary Kenny are acting swiftly to prevent suffering.
That's a four year old article. There’s been a fair amount of research and regulatory activity since.
The EO doesn't change the regulations. "Fast track" status has a specific regulatory meaning. Bobby won't be signing off on any psychedelic approvals. Much less for ibogaine (unless, perhaps, Trump's family goes into the ibogaine business)
First, thanks for all your great work on the MAHA Report Louis. As a psychotherapist for 35 years, with a father and brother who are/were prominent psychiatrists, I've seen the sad evolution of psychiatry that included pharmaceutical industry takeover and how the corruption of the research into mood disorder drugs also appears in the case of psychedelic "therapeutic" drugs. Ever-increasing research supports that various forms of trauma contribute to a large amount of psychological problems, including the emotional trauma that can lead to depression and other traumas that can contribute to other mood disorders. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, first discovered about 1985 and brought into practice in the 1990s, continues to gain increasing interest worldwide as one of the safest and most effective treatments, when therapists get certified in it and continue getting more training in it.
In Florida a huuge number of children are "Baker Acted." LEO's cuff and transport them to mental hospitals for "examination", most often without parental consent. That kind of trauma could help naughty kids become drug users for life.
Thanks for your clarification Louis. You're right that it's important to stress that the studies and trials have been extensive. I think the other key point that needs to be reiterated is that great supervision and guidance must go along with the drugs. (Similar to expert shamans when Ayahuasca is used.)
Good paper. I read it with interest, and some insight, having had extensive inpatient psychiatric experience, outpatient experience in all of my Family Medicine practices, and the kind of "experience" that Jimmy Hendrix referred to in the album title, "Are You Experienced".
I have had personal communication from an "experienced" Army medic who was called upon to perform special duty. The Army reassured everybody that they did not want to bust them for psychedelic experiences, but needed to know for a mission.
He raised his hand. The US Army was testing psychedelics as crowd control weapons during the Watts Riots.
He said the DMT fog was the most effective. People just sort of wandered away in 5 minutes.
I was in med school in 1985, taking a Radiology rotation, and he was an Ultrasound & Radiology tech.
" ... the country is finally free of laws prohibiting the use of certain psychedelics to treat mental illnesses – laws that have been in effect for more than half a century."
It isn't, at all. Did you read the EO? This doesn't even specify any regulatory pathway change.
It is not a simple easy solution. Whereas I believe it is an excellent one it also needs highly trained, caring and compassionate experts to guide and monitor each patient.
Congratulations to Rick Perry and those who brought ibogaine to his attention-and for Gov Perry for trying it himself, potentially facing conservative christian backlash, & finding brain improvement from pre-treatment. Let’s save our beloved veterans & those addicted by pharma & the china-fed cartels.
Rick Perry is bound to have needed it. I heard and heard and heard that he did a lot of coke, and likely other drugs (and more), at strip joints for decades here in Austin. I hope ibogaine did him some actual good.
Please, HPV shot pushed on my daughter at same age in Massachusetts. I resisted and pediatrician pediatric asked me to go to another doctor for daughter’s treatment. Buffalo This is just not a Texas issue. It’s countrywide with the HPV shot.
It wasn't merely declining a vaccine that finally prompted your pediatrician to advise you to find another practice. There's a whole lot more to that story.
Sorry to hear this about your daughter, Dina, but did your governor mandate the shot? Under Perry’s executive order, girls couldn’t attend school without it (even though he allowed for certain exemptions). I wonder how many girls were harmed because of his overreach as governor.
What a shame. He's being terribly reckless. Lots of psychedelics have been tested over and over again. The more policy failures he has, the more reckless the president becomes. Knowing this is the United States, there will be a large body of misuse of psychedelics.
Actually, it does because it allows people who want to be able to use the psychedelic drugs for mental health to find a professional that can do this and help them.
I worked for many years as a mental health therapist and my focus was on working with drug and alcohol addicted clients. What I learned is that there are psychedelics who will help people to get off the addictive drugs such as heroin. Ibogaine is particularly effective with drugs like heroin. I personally have worked with people that were addicted to heroin and found it to be very helpful, enabling them to quit heroin. It was at one time legal but sadly was made illegal 10 yrs ago. I have to disagree with you, there are psychedelics which really do help those suffering from addiction. One of the 2 founders of Alcoholics Anonymous , Bill Wilson, found LSD to help him greatly and he was clean and sober for 35 yrs and LSD was something that helped him greatly. It can be a deeply spiritual experience.
The US government first placed ibogaine under federal restriction during a wave of controls on hallucinogens ~1967. Then, with the passage of the Controlled Substances Act in 1970, ibogaine was classified as Schedule I (high abuse potential, no accepted medical use).
Bill Wilson’s sobriety (from alcohol) long predated his LSD experiences. He got sober in 1934, and his psychedelic use began over two decades later. He saw it as potentially helpful for others.
Well they were wrong. It has helped many people end their drug addiction to heroin etc. This is why Trump is making it legal again. It is best used under controlled circumstances. DEA has a long history of getting things wrong and they are also corrupt.
He didn't make it legal - or change it's legal status or regulatory parhway IN ANY WAY. This is another EO as press release (advertisement).
There are a handful of (legitimate, under IND) clinical trial programs already ongoing in US. Texas allocated $50 million in 2025 for FDA-sanctioned clinical trials, and a dozen other states have active or pending legislation to fund similar studies. This "big announcement" was mostly just window dressing for what's already underway.
However corrupt the DEA may have been, that pales in comparison to what Trump & Co has brought, writ large, and to Bobby's Demented Circus at FDA, NIH/CDC and across HHS agencies.
You've been involved in ibogaine trials in the US? Briefly describe the monitoring setup, please.
It was declared illegal about 10 yrs ago, I remember this clearly because I knew someone who was going off heroin after using ibogaine. she told me she could no longer do ibogaine because it was made illegal. And yes trial programs might be going on now but they weren't for the last 10 yrs or so.
I NEVER said I was involved in ibogaine trials, never was but have known people who used ibogaine.
She was a heroin addict, and you're a confabulating 'tard, because it's usually a one trip thing (+/- one or two boosts). And it takes a minute to look up the prohibition year.
Congratulations on destroying your own minimal credibility.
I get what you're saying and don't doubt that that some of what you're saying is true. However, when such reports come out, Americans get ahold of such substances and expect miracles. One such person was the pilot in Seattle who using psilocybin to treat severe depression and tried to take over the cockpit of another plane.
Wilson's use of LSD was under very controlled circumstances and psychiatric care. He did not advocate it for general use.
Yes, I agree with you about Wilson's use of LSD under controlled circumstances. I'm not advocating using LSD without control. It's use should be for getting off of drugs/alcohol under controlled circumstances and living free of those substances IMO. It can be used for spiritual purposes and can help a person see themselves and their circumstances more clearly.
First off, I volunteered for Kennedy for President for months as a 60 year-old independent. This turn of events disappoints me though for the MAHA movement. As a teenager I tried psychedelic mushrooms a half dozen times and acid the same amount of times in 12 grade and my first year at Swarthmore College. I saw acid hurt my grades and those of a friend who had transferred from Vanderbilt. It took a year to get only close to my old abilities. I then read about fellow Swarthmore grad Kurt Vonnegut's son, Mark, take about 4 hits of acid and end up in a mental institution for a year. He wrote a book about it called Eden Express. Since then I did over two decades of research to write the book and film, Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA War on Musicians and Activists about the CIA's Project MK-Ultra and LSD, along with other psychedelics and Ecstasy, among other drugs. I found strong connections between the psychedelic-promoting organizations (MAPS, Heftter) and the people involved in MK-Ultra, including their private funding families, such as the Rockefellers. I also wrote and produced the film Shots: Eugenics to Pandemics (2022). RFK Jr seems to know psychiatry is problematic, and MK-Ultra is insidious. It's too bad that he doesn't see the connection between the two. For more information, see Canadian-American psychiatrist Colin Ross's book, CIA Doctors. Working as a psychotherapist for 35 years, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) should be part of the MAHA movement, not problematic psychedelics.
First off we're talking about treating people with mental illness which will include people with PTSD such as our veterans. We're not talking about ignorant young people who played around with things they didn't know about. If you know anyone with serious mental health issues including PTSD you will know that creative measures must be used to combat these present day evils.
I've been a psychotherapist for over 35 years and doing EMDR for PTSD for people for 11 years. EMDR is creative and has little-to-no side effects. I'm against big pharma meds and I'm open to creativity, but psychedelics can present some long term problematic bad effects, especially MDMA and LSD. Maybe Ibogaine is better, but most universities want to use MDMA and LSD too.
Consider: "Unbroken: The Incredible Survival & Forgiveness Story of Louis Zamperini." Drugs are not the answer, except for those making tremendous profit from them.
Disappointed that only low hanging fruit is being addressed under HHS.
White Coat Waste Project just posted a meeting where secretary Kennedy was asked about the millions of NIH dollars that are still being funded for animal cruelty experiments. Ridgeland Farms breeds beagles to be tortured and killed and funded by NIH. Currently university of Pennsylvania are removing the eyeballs from Beagles. Activist are trying to shut down Ridgeland Farms and hopefully adopted out those 2000 beagles before they get harmed and killed
Now Trump needs to do the same thing for kratom!!! It's a life saving plant and needs to be protected. The studies done by Dr. McCurdy all show it's safe and has an extremely low potential for abuse.
I have PTSD, depression and pain now for 34 years. Thank you President Trump for listening to us Americans. I can't remember any President that helped us PATIENTS. Thank you for saving millions. Patient Zero John Prinz
Have you heard about Louis Zamperini ? The biography UNBROKEN tells how he overcame PTSD. He was a WWII veteran who went through terrible, terrible trauma. No drugs.
No. I was born 1961, we watched the War on TV as a kid...or a police action.... Drugs have been used as medicine way before WW 1 or WW 2. The drug was called morphine...so if science has shown Patients that brain problems... just because it was not used in WW2. The vets or any patient with PTSD doesn't need medicine for the brain? Judging PTSD patients doesn't stop the deaths that are happening. Did you know in 1976 our Federal government started a Federal Medical Marijuana Program that one American got for free. 32 Federal Medical Marijuana Patients, and 100 millions got poisoned by Rx Oxycontin.
I really think hearing Zamperini's story could help. Here's one interview. I wonder if he ever crosssed paths with my dad who also was flying over the Pacific at that time; my dad went through terrible stuff, but not the extensive trauma Zamperini survived. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNqakXAW8iw&t=52s
I treated with Dr Michael H Moskowitz the best Bay Area psychiatrist for pain control, 27 years each month. His knowledge saved my life, I got hurt on the job in 1992. I was 31 years old, the first surgery Dr Tate in Redding CA butchered me and made my spine damage. I had to have four more surgeries to try to fix me. I used Dr Moskowitz way, pharma Rx opiates for pain, and other Rx drugs, then in 1996 Dr Moskowitz sent me to the first Cannabis Buyer's Club in San Francisco CA. I used cannabis medicine back then to control my depression. All of this is written in my medical records for me to teach others. Like US Senator Feinstein. The same year Rx Oxycontin came out and Dr Moskowitz moved to me the drug that was going to say pain patients from the S word. My medical records show the year I quit Rx Oxycontin and 13 other Rx drugs with strong cannabis medicine. Why? Because I read Professor Dr Grinspoons book Marihuana The Forbidden Medicine. I learned cannabis medicine replaced Rx Heroin. Rx cannabis was medicine in 1914. So I took myself off of Rx Oxycontin and 13 other Rx drugs. I used my medical records to help shape and getting cannabis medicine in the pharmacy for pain control. So I have in my medical records my damaged brain that maybe Rx Oxycontin caused or my pain changed my brain. But doing nothing will only cause death to the PTSD patients of 2026. 30 years ago Rx Oxycontin started poisoning Americans. No WW
2 vet used Rx Oxycontin. Morphine is still used as a pain medicine. Science will get it all together. Big Pharma won... Pain Patients won. We won in CA way back in 96, CUA forever
Marijuanna is legal by Rx in Florida; it does help some people. It did not help our severely brain injured family member. I'm told it's not like that of the 1960s. Physical pain can make a person very depressed, but I really think Dr. Peter Breggin has the right idea about what psychiatry is SUPPOSED to be. He wrote MEDICATION MADNESS. I am so sorry for the physical pain and disability you are suffering. I have heard that the CBD gummies can help with pain. Are you able to walk? We recently purchased a used Rifton TRAM from eBay; it may be a game changer for our family member to be able to walk.
Buy my treating Doctor Michael H Moskowitz book Medical Cannabis. Learn from a great psychiatrist that cannabis medicine works for so many patients. Rx Epodoilex is the only FDA approved CBD medicine in America. No other medicine is Rx... until big Pharma brings it like Jazz Pharma makes Rx Epodoilex CBD. So just because it's legal by State law in your state or any State. It's not Pharma brings standardize medicine... my Sister in CA has been disabled with Organic Brain Syndrome since 1994- she was in a bad car accident. She had to learn how to walk and talk. Cannabis medicine saved her life. I give her free medicine I grow for her. In CA real patients get to grow with my DA and Sheriff knowing my medical story. Real patients like me speak truth to power. I can walk. My brain is on only strong cannabis medicine that is not in any State marijuana store. So pick up Dr Moskowitz book and learn what part of the plant like Rx Epodoilex CBD medicine will be coming. Every time someone tells a pain patient to go get marijuana in a State store... this marijuana will never help the pain. Why? These State marijuana store only care about Adults that aren't in pain. Adult Users are not Intractable pain patients that lost their Opiate. So when someone tells me they get it in a State marijuana store. I know why others think it's legal. If you can't use marijuana in a hospital.... it's not legal for patients. It's that easy to see. Dr Michael H Moskowitz book Medical Cannabis. Patient Zero John Prinz.
It's not Rx.... It's State law marijuana. Big difference if you are a real patient. Patient get the real medicine in the pharmacy... Rx Oxycontin once was. Now fentanyl is on the street not the pharmacy. Marijuana is not in the pharmacy yet. RX Epodoilex CBD is Jazz Pharma. Get it right....
I truly hope you can get in a study & that it helps. I’d love my Navy vet with PTS/TBI to do it. If you haven’t already, watch Rick Perry on Rogan’s podcast. He tried it himself with a pre and post brain MRI amazing results .
Apparently President Trump has forgotten what happened when he signed a Bill to "Fast-Track" the COVID -19 bullshit. There is a Legit reason to take multiple years to verify medications 😡
It also seems that you have forgotten the terrible advisors (on multiple topics) that Trump was influenced by during his first term. Although he never directly apologized for his warp speed shot, he has seriously and completely committed to the entire Maha movement. If you take a deeper dive you'll see that the psychedelics are not simply a quick study but rather have been extensively tested.
Apeel's "Organipeel" formulation is approved for use on USDA Certified Organic produce by the Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI), which allows it under the National Organic Program (NOP) standards.
* It is marketed as a fungicide for post-harvest use, not as a coating, which is how it circumvented a NOP rule that prohibits mono- and diglycerides as coatings on organic produce.
* The full ingredient list for Organipeel is not publicly disclosed; only 0.66% (citric acid) is listed as the active ingredient, with the remaining 99.34% classified as "other ingredients."
On top of that, Bill Gates’ Apeel did its own research study to slip right through the FDA’s GRAS. No third party testing, absolutely nothing.
And you people cheer this shit on like utter morons.
The point is that RFK is a total joke and the position he is waving around isn’t doing jack. Much like everything in this admin it is all fake and gay theater.
Money runs everything. The big corps and industries control everything because the politicians are all bought
It’s true. How can you people just believe such crap constantly??? Literally Trump can kill and eat a baby and the shill influencers you all listen to will give you a bs narrative to believe about it and you all will then chant it together.
You haven’t a clue of what is going on at all
Maybe research a bit outside of your bubble.
Dumbest people on this planet besides Flat Earthers
Aaron Siri: "It is incredibly ironic that President Donald Trump would write that his pick to lead the CDC, Erica Schwartz, will “restore the GOLD STANDARD SCIENCE at the CDC, which was an absolute disaster focused on ‘mandates’ under Sleepy Joe,” when Schwartz is the QUEEN of mandating vaccines."
To answer Sheryl Nelson and Tee Rigodanzo in a more viewable way, I'll reply here. As the CIA has done on other subjects, they seemed to suppress important studies that showed the negative side of psychedelics. I had to go to several medical school libraries before I found 4 studies that present some form of cerebral damage such as: Hallucinogenic Drugs and Brain Damage (Acord, 1969), Hallucinogenic Drugs and Cerebral Deficit (Acord and Barker, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease,1973), Organicity Measures Following Repeated LSD Ingestion (McGlothlin, Arnold, Freedman, Archives of General Psychiatry, 1969), and Electrodiagnostic Evidence of Subclinicial Disease States in Drug Abusers (DiBenedetto, Archives of Physical and Medical Rehabilitation, 1976). Again, I also found many studies showing emotional damage from LSD. All four of the cited studies state findings of some sort of brain damage happening, despite not being able to specify how. Cornell University Medical School professor Donald Louria, MD wrote a regular column in the New England Journal of Medicine. In one important column, he wrote an overview of the latest studies in 1968 that I reprinted in my book and will summarize here. He indicated some substantiation to small benefits while dispelling any larger benefits. Louria warned that LSD proponents are "undaunted by the lack of documentation of benefits or the many tragedies caused by the drug... [and] consequent medical and psychiatric tragedies, will almost inevitably occur... [This] could lead to a whole generation of psychedelic dropouts, incapable or uninterested in addressing themselves to the important sociological problems that challenge our times... [This] may well determine the future course of our civilization."
It’s a ‘one and done’ experience. I encourage everyone here to go to the Rogan podcasts on Spotify and actually listen to/ hear everything Gov Perry etc say. This is a plant from Gabon(?) Africa & Stamford has been studying their participants with pre and post brain MRIs with stunning results. One time, 85% improvement in brain, no desire to use the substance again. This is not an addictive substance. Please learn. Veterans with PTS and TBIs would benefit greatly-it’s the least we can do for them who put their lives on the line for us every day.
Like anything, it's only as good as the user will make it. But my understanding is they will be under serious supervision so that guidance will be given along the way. If you haven't already you'll want to check out Mahamovie.com
NOT SO FAST! NOT SO SURE this intro of psychedelics would be a cure or pose a further contribution to mental illness.
Just finished reading,CHAOS, & it exposes the dastardly programs of mind-control by the so-called intelligence agencies under Hoordwink Hoover & certain health agents serving them (already going on way back in the '60s w. the hippies/Haight Asbury/Hollyweird crowd-- of whom Charles Manson & his drugged up LSD+ harem were part & parcel of). Joe Rogan needs to read it-- unless he too is part & parcel ....
With 17 million Americans dead and counting from #OperationWarpSpeed and with the existing argument that there is no valid evidence of psychodelics aiding mental health from the same lying assholes that are responsible for biochemical warfare on innocent Americans for generations. I’m never taking pharmaceuticals again.
Well, now the witness has changed his mind; hope he was wrong and they were not spraying glyphosate or any other hazardous thing. They were spraying something on Magnolia Campus.
These drugs are moved quickly to approval but have been studied in ongoing trial extensively as you can read here - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9553847/
The article concluded with this statement: "Psychedelic therapies represent an exciting opportunity for psychiatry — allowing patients to achieve meaningful improvements in function, symptomatology, and overall outlook in a relatively short amount of time. Though many challenges, several of which we discussed here, lie ahead, we are optimistic about psychedelics’ — and psychiatry’s — future."
This is not what happened with Covid vaccines which were rammed through and mandated. This is a very different scenario. President Trump and Secretary Kenny are acting swiftly to prevent suffering.
What do you mean, "Moved quickly to approval?"
They want to get that money as soon as possible!!!
That's a four year old article. There’s been a fair amount of research and regulatory activity since.
The EO doesn't change the regulations. "Fast track" status has a specific regulatory meaning. Bobby won't be signing off on any psychedelic approvals. Much less for ibogaine (unless, perhaps, Trump's family goes into the ibogaine business)
First, thanks for all your great work on the MAHA Report Louis. As a psychotherapist for 35 years, with a father and brother who are/were prominent psychiatrists, I've seen the sad evolution of psychiatry that included pharmaceutical industry takeover and how the corruption of the research into mood disorder drugs also appears in the case of psychedelic "therapeutic" drugs. Ever-increasing research supports that various forms of trauma contribute to a large amount of psychological problems, including the emotional trauma that can lead to depression and other traumas that can contribute to other mood disorders. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, first discovered about 1985 and brought into practice in the 1990s, continues to gain increasing interest worldwide as one of the safest and most effective treatments, when therapists get certified in it and continue getting more training in it.
In Florida a huuge number of children are "Baker Acted." LEO's cuff and transport them to mental hospitals for "examination", most often without parental consent. That kind of trauma could help naughty kids become drug users for life.
Thanks for your clarification Louis. You're right that it's important to stress that the studies and trials have been extensive. I think the other key point that needs to be reiterated is that great supervision and guidance must go along with the drugs. (Similar to expert shamans when Ayahuasca is used.)
The trials with SSRIs were extensive too. This is horrible.
Hope you're correct.
Good paper. I read it with interest, and some insight, having had extensive inpatient psychiatric experience, outpatient experience in all of my Family Medicine practices, and the kind of "experience" that Jimmy Hendrix referred to in the album title, "Are You Experienced".
I have had personal communication from an "experienced" Army medic who was called upon to perform special duty. The Army reassured everybody that they did not want to bust them for psychedelic experiences, but needed to know for a mission.
He raised his hand. The US Army was testing psychedelics as crowd control weapons during the Watts Riots.
He said the DMT fog was the most effective. People just sort of wandered away in 5 minutes.
I was in med school in 1985, taking a Radiology rotation, and he was an Ultrasound & Radiology tech.
He told me Vietnam stories, too.
Good guy.
" ... the country is finally free of laws prohibiting the use of certain psychedelics to treat mental illnesses – laws that have been in effect for more than half a century."
It isn't, at all. Did you read the EO? This doesn't even specify any regulatory pathway change.
Wow. I had no idea such an easy solution can be had to end this epidemic! Congrats to the WhiteHouse and Joe Rogan. (One wonders why it took so long?)
Sarcasm, right?
It is not a simple easy solution. Whereas I believe it is an excellent one it also needs highly trained, caring and compassionate experts to guide and monitor each patient.
Congratulations to Rick Perry and those who brought ibogaine to his attention-and for Gov Perry for trying it himself, potentially facing conservative christian backlash, & finding brain improvement from pre-treatment. Let’s save our beloved veterans & those addicted by pharma & the china-fed cartels.
Rick Perry is bound to have needed it. I heard and heard and heard that he did a lot of coke, and likely other drugs (and more), at strip joints for decades here in Austin. I hope ibogaine did him some actual good.
Is this the same Rick Perry who signed an executive order as governor mandating the dangerous HPV vaccine for sixth-grade girls in Texas?
Please, HPV shot pushed on my daughter at same age in Massachusetts. I resisted and pediatrician pediatric asked me to go to another doctor for daughter’s treatment. Buffalo This is just not a Texas issue. It’s countrywide with the HPV shot.
It wasn't merely declining a vaccine that finally prompted your pediatrician to advise you to find another practice. There's a whole lot more to that story.
Sorry to hear this about your daughter, Dina, but did your governor mandate the shot? Under Perry’s executive order, girls couldn’t attend school without it (even though he allowed for certain exemptions). I wonder how many girls were harmed because of his overreach as governor.
What a shame. He's being terribly reckless. Lots of psychedelics have been tested over and over again. The more policy failures he has, the more reckless the president becomes. Knowing this is the United States, there will be a large body of misuse of psychedelics.
This changes (close to) nothing.
Actually, it does because it allows people who want to be able to use the psychedelic drugs for mental health to find a professional that can do this and help them.
No more so than is already the case, which is 2 or 3 small treatment trials;
https://clinicaltrials.gov/search?intr=Ibogaine&viewType=Card
Announced $50M funding, which had been committed months ago.
Wrong. It hasn't been rescheduled from Schedule-I. It's already in clinical trials via existing regulatory pathways, which have not been altered.
Did the EO include any changes written in invisible ink that only you can see? Please share ....
Please see my comment just above.
Comments above by Alfalfa are fact-based.
I worked for many years as a mental health therapist and my focus was on working with drug and alcohol addicted clients. What I learned is that there are psychedelics who will help people to get off the addictive drugs such as heroin. Ibogaine is particularly effective with drugs like heroin. I personally have worked with people that were addicted to heroin and found it to be very helpful, enabling them to quit heroin. It was at one time legal but sadly was made illegal 10 yrs ago. I have to disagree with you, there are psychedelics which really do help those suffering from addiction. One of the 2 founders of Alcoholics Anonymous , Bill Wilson, found LSD to help him greatly and he was clean and sober for 35 yrs and LSD was something that helped him greatly. It can be a deeply spiritual experience.
The US government first placed ibogaine under federal restriction during a wave of controls on hallucinogens ~1967. Then, with the passage of the Controlled Substances Act in 1970, ibogaine was classified as Schedule I (high abuse potential, no accepted medical use).
Bill Wilson’s sobriety (from alcohol) long predated his LSD experiences. He got sober in 1934, and his psychedelic use began over two decades later. He saw it as potentially helpful for others.
Well they were wrong. It has helped many people end their drug addiction to heroin etc. This is why Trump is making it legal again. It is best used under controlled circumstances. DEA has a long history of getting things wrong and they are also corrupt.
He didn't make it legal - or change it's legal status or regulatory parhway IN ANY WAY. This is another EO as press release (advertisement).
There are a handful of (legitimate, under IND) clinical trial programs already ongoing in US. Texas allocated $50 million in 2025 for FDA-sanctioned clinical trials, and a dozen other states have active or pending legislation to fund similar studies. This "big announcement" was mostly just window dressing for what's already underway.
However corrupt the DEA may have been, that pales in comparison to what Trump & Co has brought, writ large, and to Bobby's Demented Circus at FDA, NIH/CDC and across HHS agencies.
You've been involved in ibogaine trials in the US? Briefly describe the monitoring setup, please.
It was declared illegal about 10 yrs ago, I remember this clearly because I knew someone who was going off heroin after using ibogaine. she told me she could no longer do ibogaine because it was made illegal. And yes trial programs might be going on now but they weren't for the last 10 yrs or so.
I NEVER said I was involved in ibogaine trials, never was but have known people who used ibogaine.
She was a heroin addict, and you're a confabulating 'tard, because it's usually a one trip thing (+/- one or two boosts). And it takes a minute to look up the prohibition year.
Congratulations on destroying your own minimal credibility.
Super astute stuff here - https://substack.com/@egrogan/note/c-128274375
Federally outlawed ~1967
You're 80-something, right?
I get what you're saying and don't doubt that that some of what you're saying is true. However, when such reports come out, Americans get ahold of such substances and expect miracles. One such person was the pilot in Seattle who using psilocybin to treat severe depression and tried to take over the cockpit of another plane.
Wilson's use of LSD was under very controlled circumstances and psychiatric care. He did not advocate it for general use.
Yes, I agree with you about Wilson's use of LSD under controlled circumstances. I'm not advocating using LSD without control. It's use should be for getting off of drugs/alcohol under controlled circumstances and living free of those substances IMO. It can be used for spiritual purposes and can help a person see themselves and their circumstances more clearly.
First off, I volunteered for Kennedy for President for months as a 60 year-old independent. This turn of events disappoints me though for the MAHA movement. As a teenager I tried psychedelic mushrooms a half dozen times and acid the same amount of times in 12 grade and my first year at Swarthmore College. I saw acid hurt my grades and those of a friend who had transferred from Vanderbilt. It took a year to get only close to my old abilities. I then read about fellow Swarthmore grad Kurt Vonnegut's son, Mark, take about 4 hits of acid and end up in a mental institution for a year. He wrote a book about it called Eden Express. Since then I did over two decades of research to write the book and film, Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA War on Musicians and Activists about the CIA's Project MK-Ultra and LSD, along with other psychedelics and Ecstasy, among other drugs. I found strong connections between the psychedelic-promoting organizations (MAPS, Heftter) and the people involved in MK-Ultra, including their private funding families, such as the Rockefellers. I also wrote and produced the film Shots: Eugenics to Pandemics (2022). RFK Jr seems to know psychiatry is problematic, and MK-Ultra is insidious. It's too bad that he doesn't see the connection between the two. For more information, see Canadian-American psychiatrist Colin Ross's book, CIA Doctors. Working as a psychotherapist for 35 years, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) should be part of the MAHA movement, not problematic psychedelics.
First off we're talking about treating people with mental illness which will include people with PTSD such as our veterans. We're not talking about ignorant young people who played around with things they didn't know about. If you know anyone with serious mental health issues including PTSD you will know that creative measures must be used to combat these present day evils.
I've been a psychotherapist for over 35 years and doing EMDR for PTSD for people for 11 years. EMDR is creative and has little-to-no side effects. I'm against big pharma meds and I'm open to creativity, but psychedelics can present some long term problematic bad effects, especially MDMA and LSD. Maybe Ibogaine is better, but most universities want to use MDMA and LSD too.
I wonder if hyperbaric oxygen therapy might help? They've been doing a study with veterans at USF.
Consider: "Unbroken: The Incredible Survival & Forgiveness Story of Louis Zamperini." Drugs are not the answer, except for those making tremendous profit from them.
Of course it's not perfect, but it's a positive step forward!
Disappointed that only low hanging fruit is being addressed under HHS.
White Coat Waste Project just posted a meeting where secretary Kennedy was asked about the millions of NIH dollars that are still being funded for animal cruelty experiments. Ridgeland Farms breeds beagles to be tortured and killed and funded by NIH. Currently university of Pennsylvania are removing the eyeballs from Beagles. Activist are trying to shut down Ridgeland Farms and hopefully adopted out those 2000 beagles before they get harmed and killed
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He’s hoping that if we’re all tripping acid, we’ll be distracted from his disaster of a presidency
Serious TDS statement. He’s trying to help people with mental illness esp vets!
Now Trump needs to do the same thing for kratom!!! It's a life saving plant and needs to be protected. The studies done by Dr. McCurdy all show it's safe and has an extremely low potential for abuse.
I have PTSD, depression and pain now for 34 years. Thank you President Trump for listening to us Americans. I can't remember any President that helped us PATIENTS. Thank you for saving millions. Patient Zero John Prinz
Have you heard about Louis Zamperini ? The biography UNBROKEN tells how he overcame PTSD. He was a WWII veteran who went through terrible, terrible trauma. No drugs.
Nah, Thats to difficult for people today. Best to just let them take drugs rather than actually have to do work
No. I was born 1961, we watched the War on TV as a kid...or a police action.... Drugs have been used as medicine way before WW 1 or WW 2. The drug was called morphine...so if science has shown Patients that brain problems... just because it was not used in WW2. The vets or any patient with PTSD doesn't need medicine for the brain? Judging PTSD patients doesn't stop the deaths that are happening. Did you know in 1976 our Federal government started a Federal Medical Marijuana Program that one American got for free. 32 Federal Medical Marijuana Patients, and 100 millions got poisoned by Rx Oxycontin.
I really think hearing Zamperini's story could help. Here's one interview. I wonder if he ever crosssed paths with my dad who also was flying over the Pacific at that time; my dad went through terrible stuff, but not the extensive trauma Zamperini survived. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNqakXAW8iw&t=52s
I treated with Dr Michael H Moskowitz the best Bay Area psychiatrist for pain control, 27 years each month. His knowledge saved my life, I got hurt on the job in 1992. I was 31 years old, the first surgery Dr Tate in Redding CA butchered me and made my spine damage. I had to have four more surgeries to try to fix me. I used Dr Moskowitz way, pharma Rx opiates for pain, and other Rx drugs, then in 1996 Dr Moskowitz sent me to the first Cannabis Buyer's Club in San Francisco CA. I used cannabis medicine back then to control my depression. All of this is written in my medical records for me to teach others. Like US Senator Feinstein. The same year Rx Oxycontin came out and Dr Moskowitz moved to me the drug that was going to say pain patients from the S word. My medical records show the year I quit Rx Oxycontin and 13 other Rx drugs with strong cannabis medicine. Why? Because I read Professor Dr Grinspoons book Marihuana The Forbidden Medicine. I learned cannabis medicine replaced Rx Heroin. Rx cannabis was medicine in 1914. So I took myself off of Rx Oxycontin and 13 other Rx drugs. I used my medical records to help shape and getting cannabis medicine in the pharmacy for pain control. So I have in my medical records my damaged brain that maybe Rx Oxycontin caused or my pain changed my brain. But doing nothing will only cause death to the PTSD patients of 2026. 30 years ago Rx Oxycontin started poisoning Americans. No WW
2 vet used Rx Oxycontin. Morphine is still used as a pain medicine. Science will get it all together. Big Pharma won... Pain Patients won. We won in CA way back in 96, CUA forever
Marijuanna is legal by Rx in Florida; it does help some people. It did not help our severely brain injured family member. I'm told it's not like that of the 1960s. Physical pain can make a person very depressed, but I really think Dr. Peter Breggin has the right idea about what psychiatry is SUPPOSED to be. He wrote MEDICATION MADNESS. I am so sorry for the physical pain and disability you are suffering. I have heard that the CBD gummies can help with pain. Are you able to walk? We recently purchased a used Rifton TRAM from eBay; it may be a game changer for our family member to be able to walk.
Buy my treating Doctor Michael H Moskowitz book Medical Cannabis. Learn from a great psychiatrist that cannabis medicine works for so many patients. Rx Epodoilex is the only FDA approved CBD medicine in America. No other medicine is Rx... until big Pharma brings it like Jazz Pharma makes Rx Epodoilex CBD. So just because it's legal by State law in your state or any State. It's not Pharma brings standardize medicine... my Sister in CA has been disabled with Organic Brain Syndrome since 1994- she was in a bad car accident. She had to learn how to walk and talk. Cannabis medicine saved her life. I give her free medicine I grow for her. In CA real patients get to grow with my DA and Sheriff knowing my medical story. Real patients like me speak truth to power. I can walk. My brain is on only strong cannabis medicine that is not in any State marijuana store. So pick up Dr Moskowitz book and learn what part of the plant like Rx Epodoilex CBD medicine will be coming. Every time someone tells a pain patient to go get marijuana in a State store... this marijuana will never help the pain. Why? These State marijuana store only care about Adults that aren't in pain. Adult Users are not Intractable pain patients that lost their Opiate. So when someone tells me they get it in a State marijuana store. I know why others think it's legal. If you can't use marijuana in a hospital.... it's not legal for patients. It's that easy to see. Dr Michael H Moskowitz book Medical Cannabis. Patient Zero John Prinz.
It's not Rx.... It's State law marijuana. Big difference if you are a real patient. Patient get the real medicine in the pharmacy... Rx Oxycontin once was. Now fentanyl is on the street not the pharmacy. Marijuana is not in the pharmacy yet. RX Epodoilex CBD is Jazz Pharma. Get it right....
Google John Prinz Medical Marijuana and read my medical story.
I truly hope you can get in a study & that it helps. I’d love my Navy vet with PTS/TBI to do it. If you haven’t already, watch Rick Perry on Rogan’s podcast. He tried it himself with a pre and post brain MRI amazing results .
Wait a freckn minute.
Apparently President Trump has forgotten what happened when he signed a Bill to "Fast-Track" the COVID -19 bullshit. There is a Legit reason to take multiple years to verify medications 😡
It also seems that you have forgotten the terrible advisors (on multiple topics) that Trump was influenced by during his first term. Although he never directly apologized for his warp speed shot, he has seriously and completely committed to the entire Maha movement. If you take a deeper dive you'll see that the psychedelics are not simply a quick study but rather have been extensively tested.
But the advisors he is influenced by now are not "terrible".
Psychedelics have been used in the past and it turned out to be a horrible idea. That's why they stopped using them!
And how were they used in the past??? Manipulative motive, no guidelines or boundaries, lacking proper supervision. Prove me wrong.
I'm not here to prove you wrong. You seem pretty set on your opinion
And I'm set on my, based on personal knowledge, not on a internet education.
Good day
Personal knowledge vs gold standard science . . . no comparison
What a crock of shit narrative you cucks have been given to believe and then parrot like brain dead zombies
Thank you
Totally committed to Americas health eh?
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https://x.com/maximumpain333/status/2045547911769927751?s=20
Apeel's "Organipeel" formulation is approved for use on USDA Certified Organic produce by the Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI), which allows it under the National Organic Program (NOP) standards.
* It is marketed as a fungicide for post-harvest use, not as a coating, which is how it circumvented a NOP rule that prohibits mono- and diglycerides as coatings on organic produce.
* The full ingredient list for Organipeel is not publicly disclosed; only 0.66% (citric acid) is listed as the active ingredient, with the remaining 99.34% classified as "other ingredients."
On top of that, Bill Gates’ Apeel did its own research study to slip right through the FDA’s GRAS. No third party testing, absolutely nothing.
And you people cheer this shit on like utter morons.
RFK Jr doesnt give a shit. He is a puppet
Thanks for the info. Publix groceries has some sort of coating, according to a sign in the produce section, including "food grade petroleum." Yikes!
This is really just one thing of thousands.
The point is that RFK is a total joke and the position he is waving around isn’t doing jack. Much like everything in this admin it is all fake and gay theater.
Money runs everything. The big corps and industries control everything because the politicians are all bought
It’s true. How can you people just believe such crap constantly??? Literally Trump can kill and eat a baby and the shill influencers you all listen to will give you a bs narrative to believe about it and you all will then chant it together.
You haven’t a clue of what is going on at all
Maybe research a bit outside of your bubble.
Dumbest people on this planet besides Flat Earthers
Have a nice day
As Louis Conte said above, "These drugs are moved quickly to approval but have been studied in ongoing trial extensively as you can read here" - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9553847/
Just like all the "vaccines" that have been injuring people. But they're safe (pharma can't get sued) and effective (pharma makes a lot of money!).
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/3853/text
https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/hhs-cdc-announce-new-acip-members-sept-2025.html
https://www.mahaaction.org/maha-wins (Scroll to bottom of list on left side of page to educate yourself on efforts toward VACCINE REFORM)
FDA got us where we are.
And you can certainly stay stuck there . . . OR you can move forward with the progress especially of the past year.
Aaron Siri: "It is incredibly ironic that President Donald Trump would write that his pick to lead the CDC, Erica Schwartz, will “restore the GOLD STANDARD SCIENCE at the CDC, which was an absolute disaster focused on ‘mandates’ under Sleepy Joe,” when Schwartz is the QUEEN of mandating vaccines."
To answer Sheryl Nelson and Tee Rigodanzo in a more viewable way, I'll reply here. As the CIA has done on other subjects, they seemed to suppress important studies that showed the negative side of psychedelics. I had to go to several medical school libraries before I found 4 studies that present some form of cerebral damage such as: Hallucinogenic Drugs and Brain Damage (Acord, 1969), Hallucinogenic Drugs and Cerebral Deficit (Acord and Barker, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease,1973), Organicity Measures Following Repeated LSD Ingestion (McGlothlin, Arnold, Freedman, Archives of General Psychiatry, 1969), and Electrodiagnostic Evidence of Subclinicial Disease States in Drug Abusers (DiBenedetto, Archives of Physical and Medical Rehabilitation, 1976). Again, I also found many studies showing emotional damage from LSD. All four of the cited studies state findings of some sort of brain damage happening, despite not being able to specify how. Cornell University Medical School professor Donald Louria, MD wrote a regular column in the New England Journal of Medicine. In one important column, he wrote an overview of the latest studies in 1968 that I reprinted in my book and will summarize here. He indicated some substantiation to small benefits while dispelling any larger benefits. Louria warned that LSD proponents are "undaunted by the lack of documentation of benefits or the many tragedies caused by the drug... [and] consequent medical and psychiatric tragedies, will almost inevitably occur... [This] could lead to a whole generation of psychedelic dropouts, incapable or uninterested in addressing themselves to the important sociological problems that challenge our times... [This] may well determine the future course of our civilization."
It’s all good and well until that person stops the medication because they believe they are ‘cured.’ That’s my gut reaction to this news.
It’s a temporary fix. Isn’t there a healthier alternative
It’s a ‘one and done’ experience. I encourage everyone here to go to the Rogan podcasts on Spotify and actually listen to/ hear everything Gov Perry etc say. This is a plant from Gabon(?) Africa & Stamford has been studying their participants with pre and post brain MRIs with stunning results. One time, 85% improvement in brain, no desire to use the substance again. This is not an addictive substance. Please learn. Veterans with PTS and TBIs would benefit greatly-it’s the least we can do for them who put their lives on the line for us every day.
I’ll certainly check out the information. Thanks to Tee and Dawn.
Like anything, it's only as good as the user will make it. But my understanding is they will be under serious supervision so that guidance will be given along the way. If you haven't already you'll want to check out Mahamovie.com
NOT SO FAST! NOT SO SURE this intro of psychedelics would be a cure or pose a further contribution to mental illness.
Just finished reading,CHAOS, & it exposes the dastardly programs of mind-control by the so-called intelligence agencies under Hoordwink Hoover & certain health agents serving them (already going on way back in the '60s w. the hippies/Haight Asbury/Hollyweird crowd-- of whom Charles Manson & his drugged up LSD+ harem were part & parcel of). Joe Rogan needs to read it-- unless he too is part & parcel ....
With 17 million Americans dead and counting from #OperationWarpSpeed and with the existing argument that there is no valid evidence of psychodelics aiding mental health from the same lying assholes that are responsible for biochemical warfare on innocent Americans for generations. I’m never taking pharmaceuticals again.
I just learned today that the famous cancer hospital in Tampa, FL (Moffitt) has a garden for the patients. They spray it with glyphosate.
Well, now the witness has changed his mind; hope he was wrong and they were not spraying glyphosate or any other hazardous thing. They were spraying something on Magnolia Campus.