The world’s No. 1 bro-caster, who has expressed some buyer’s remorse over his endorsement of Trump, stood directly behind the president, who was seated at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office signing an executive order to ease restrictions on medical research and treatments using psychedelic drugs.
It is a W, it’d be more of a W if they hadn’t completely fucked grants and medical research funding. The truth is that it’s insane what the medical community has to do to research the medical viability of something that was ruled to have no medical viability, despite at the time it was scheduled showing promise and continuing to show promise outside of the states and in the medical studies that have bent over backwards to follow the rules.
Psychedelics were once viewed as one of the most promising breakthroughs in mental health treatment and because of Nixon and Regan and their racist war on drugs, that legacy has been kicked down the road.
I’ll concede that it’s a minor w, in a sea of shit, piss, and blood. But I’m gonna count my blessings.
It’s too bad this maladministration is cutting scientific research funding so deeply, so not sure how much any research is going to happen, including this, but…I remain hopeful, I guess.