When I first saw reports of Trump signing this executive order, I thought, Wow, it looks like the bell-end finally did something good! It stands to reason, however, that he did it badly and for all the wrong reasons.
In the late 60's through the early 80's I experimented quite a bit with LSD, mushrooms, and Ecstasy. They were all quite helpful to me in improving my state of mind. I'm a better person for having had those experiences. All these drugs can be dangerous, and science-based research is desperately needed. Americans seem to be especially prone to dabble in mind-altering substances, and people need guidance they can trust to avoid damaging themselves. Rushing through the approval is not the way to do that.
ps. it's long since whitewashed - but joe rogan actually told young men (i had a lover convinced of this) that women who had c-sections were not able to connect or form a bond with their baby's as women who had natural births because, he said, or agreed with ... a lie that women who had c-sections did not produce prolactin. this was so absurd when i heard this, i broke up with my ignorant lover and dismissed joe rogan,. this guy is just like all others in this disinformation regime.
While politics should certainly be kept out of the FDA approval process, it is clear that politics has long been involved in the DEA scheduling of drugs. Hallucinogens are Schedule I regulated substances (1) despite the National Institute on Drug Abuse statement that they have low addictive potential (2) (dissociatives, such as ketamine and PCP, are different). Hallucinogens also are not particularly toxic, especially at effective/therapeutic doses. This is not to say they are without risk, but classifying them as Schedule I has always been a political decision.
Here in Florida, we have approved medical marijuana. There are efforts to legalize it fully. This has generated ads against the effort. What's ironic is that national efforts to reschedule weed include mentions that as a Schedule 1 drug, appropriate studies to test weed have been prohibited as any kind of possession is illegal, even where States have bypassed the Federal restrictions. Yet the "say no" to reduced scheduling are citing all kinds of nasty things weed supposedly does. So my question is "how do they know"? What studies brought them to that conclusion since such studies are not just not done, they're illegal! It's the cry currently being addressed for psychedelics (I did my own experimenting in the late 60's and early 70's and feel no ill effects)! The "catch 22" for both needs to be addressed.
Without reading other comments, I may be repeating what’s contained in other comments. There have been anecdotal reports of success with microdosing of LSD and mushrooms. I have seen one myself with 1 patient. He put small amounts of mushrooms in a peanut butter sandwich, and it helped by his report. The process of preparing the psilocybin is lengthy. He switched to a very small amount of LSD. He said he mixed 1 mg of LSD (I don’t know how he determined 1 mg of LSD) with 1 mg of vodka (?purer than water ) and used a syringe to deposit (not inject) a mg of the mixture under his tongue every 3 days and felt normal again after a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. This was a man with multiple hospitalizations and 3 suicide attempts. The one published study I know of fudged the data, and treatment involved lengthy sessions. There is some research already being done on both. I don’t know how it is funded. There are no double-blind studies to my knowledge. The issue is dosing amounts and how it is administered. This is not a rapid process. There are studies of lithium in mice that “reverses “ Alzheimer’s disease. In mice, and no human studies because they don’t know the amount to be used or the method of delivery.
This is just another desperate move by Trump to put his name on something or claim credit for the advance. Use in humans by existing FDA guidelines and approval is years away (legitimately). The man is unfit and dangerous.
The involvement of Dr. Oz here (“[Trump] said, ‘Bobby, let’s just do it and get Oz involved and it’s going to get done so quickly,’”) is no reassurance to me.
clearly being a bit of propaganda, geared at manipulating those with miserable critical thinking skills, and a good dose of innumeracy.
2) More subtle, but quite clear, Dr. Oz makes it sound like the effect of an ACA change that the Republicans are trying to get through has the EXACT OPPOSITE of the effect it has
3) Otherwise, just today, Charles Gaba caught some possible information suppression or intentional delay going on at CMS (headed by Dr. Oz) about the effect of the ACA expanded subsidies that lapsed Jan 1, 2026. . From https://charlesgaba.substack.com/p/cms-posts-january-2026-medicaid-chip , I quote:
"There’s one other important data point missing from the January CMS Medicaid/CHIP enrollment snapshot:
Until now, the summary report also included a brief mention of total effectuated ACA marketplace enrollment in Qualified Health Plans (QHPs), rounded off to the nearest 100,000. As of December effectuated enrollment was ~21.8 million people.
However, starting this month, this data point is missing...and that’s not by accident; it includes this footnote:
As of the January 2026 data, Marketplace enrollment data are no longer included in this report but will be available separately soon."
(Dr. Oz. J'accuse! Yes, I see the chair stands, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUHyEx4dmGo, but you're not fooling me! Nor Jonathan Cohn, nor many of his readers, I'm pretty sure.)
Speaking as someone who has gone on a psychedelic retreat to treat my depression and anxiety and found it life-changing:
I think a lot of the “cutting red tape” abundance-pilled people would be wise to bear in mind that certain things—like medical research and clinical trials—move slowly for a reason. Intervening in medical research via executive order is a ridiculous precedent. There are ways to responsibly advocate for fast-tracking drug approvals and increasing funding for research. Signing a decree is not one of them.
Yeah. I’m all in favor of cutting red tape, and I think the FDA is way too reticent to trust its foreign peers, but what “cutting red tape” often means in practice is “letting researchers experiment on vulnerable people” and “letting companies make wild unproven claims that they profit from”. I wish we had more of a middle ground where informed patients could try things more easily according to their own best judgement, but “informed” is tough with guys like RFK and Rogan out there pushing snake oil miracle cures.
You'll know it's being approved when Eric and Don Jr. invest in it. If they haven't already
When I first saw reports of Trump signing this executive order, I thought, Wow, it looks like the bell-end finally did something good! It stands to reason, however, that he did it badly and for all the wrong reasons.
In the late 60's through the early 80's I experimented quite a bit with LSD, mushrooms, and Ecstasy. They were all quite helpful to me in improving my state of mind. I'm a better person for having had those experiences. All these drugs can be dangerous, and science-based research is desperately needed. Americans seem to be especially prone to dabble in mind-altering substances, and people need guidance they can trust to avoid damaging themselves. Rushing through the approval is not the way to do that.
If Trump had been in power in the late 1950s, would he have pushed a priority voucher for Thalidomide?
we can do better.
ps. it's long since whitewashed - but joe rogan actually told young men (i had a lover convinced of this) that women who had c-sections were not able to connect or form a bond with their baby's as women who had natural births because, he said, or agreed with ... a lie that women who had c-sections did not produce prolactin. this was so absurd when i heard this, i broke up with my ignorant lover and dismissed joe rogan,. this guy is just like all others in this disinformation regime.
joe rogan and rfk jr are interchangeable as are most of trumps cabinet. this is a pointless debate between worse and worser!
“[Trump] said, ‘Bobby, let’s just do it and get Oz involved and it’s going to get done so quickly,’”
(And thusly, Moe, Larry, and Curly were assembled together...)
While politics should certainly be kept out of the FDA approval process, it is clear that politics has long been involved in the DEA scheduling of drugs. Hallucinogens are Schedule I regulated substances (1) despite the National Institute on Drug Abuse statement that they have low addictive potential (2) (dissociatives, such as ketamine and PCP, are different). Hallucinogens also are not particularly toxic, especially at effective/therapeutic doses. This is not to say they are without risk, but classifying them as Schedule I has always been a political decision.
(1) https://www.dea.gov/drug-information/drug-scheduling
(2) https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/psychedelic-dissociative-drugs#experience-withdrawal
Only good can happen, nothing bad!
Seriously, when the studies pile up showing no difference compared to placebo, will Joe Rogan stand up and say “I was wrong”?
Here in Florida, we have approved medical marijuana. There are efforts to legalize it fully. This has generated ads against the effort. What's ironic is that national efforts to reschedule weed include mentions that as a Schedule 1 drug, appropriate studies to test weed have been prohibited as any kind of possession is illegal, even where States have bypassed the Federal restrictions. Yet the "say no" to reduced scheduling are citing all kinds of nasty things weed supposedly does. So my question is "how do they know"? What studies brought them to that conclusion since such studies are not just not done, they're illegal! It's the cry currently being addressed for psychedelics (I did my own experimenting in the late 60's and early 70's and feel no ill effects)! The "catch 22" for both needs to be addressed.
Without reading other comments, I may be repeating what’s contained in other comments. There have been anecdotal reports of success with microdosing of LSD and mushrooms. I have seen one myself with 1 patient. He put small amounts of mushrooms in a peanut butter sandwich, and it helped by his report. The process of preparing the psilocybin is lengthy. He switched to a very small amount of LSD. He said he mixed 1 mg of LSD (I don’t know how he determined 1 mg of LSD) with 1 mg of vodka (?purer than water ) and used a syringe to deposit (not inject) a mg of the mixture under his tongue every 3 days and felt normal again after a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. This was a man with multiple hospitalizations and 3 suicide attempts. The one published study I know of fudged the data, and treatment involved lengthy sessions. There is some research already being done on both. I don’t know how it is funded. There are no double-blind studies to my knowledge. The issue is dosing amounts and how it is administered. This is not a rapid process. There are studies of lithium in mice that “reverses “ Alzheimer’s disease. In mice, and no human studies because they don’t know the amount to be used or the method of delivery.
This is just another desperate move by Trump to put his name on something or claim credit for the advance. Use in humans by existing FDA guidelines and approval is years away (legitimately). The man is unfit and dangerous.
The study I referenced was with MDMA. Sorry I left that out.
The involvement of Dr. Oz here (“[Trump] said, ‘Bobby, let’s just do it and get Oz involved and it’s going to get done so quickly,’”) is no reassurance to me.
I have identified him as a deceiving manipulator.
Based on:
1) This little gem, co-produced with Fox News:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z4GhR94KRI
clearly being a bit of propaganda, geared at manipulating those with miserable critical thinking skills, and a good dose of innumeracy.
2) More subtle, but quite clear, Dr. Oz makes it sound like the effect of an ACA change that the Republicans are trying to get through has the EXACT OPPOSITE of the effect it has
(here: https://normspier828307.substack.com/p/cost-sharing-reductions-silver-loading ; initial discovery of the Oz untruth is by Charles Gaba) ,
3) Otherwise, just today, Charles Gaba caught some possible information suppression or intentional delay going on at CMS (headed by Dr. Oz) about the effect of the ACA expanded subsidies that lapsed Jan 1, 2026. . From https://charlesgaba.substack.com/p/cms-posts-january-2026-medicaid-chip , I quote:
"There’s one other important data point missing from the January CMS Medicaid/CHIP enrollment snapshot:
Until now, the summary report also included a brief mention of total effectuated ACA marketplace enrollment in Qualified Health Plans (QHPs), rounded off to the nearest 100,000. As of December effectuated enrollment was ~21.8 million people.
However, starting this month, this data point is missing...and that’s not by accident; it includes this footnote:
As of the January 2026 data, Marketplace enrollment data are no longer included in this report but will be available separately soon."
(Dr. Oz. J'accuse! Yes, I see the chair stands, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUHyEx4dmGo, but you're not fooling me! Nor Jonathan Cohn, nor many of his readers, I'm pretty sure.)
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-air-traffic-duffy
Looked up developers. Of course Palantir heads up the three. Is there anything Thiel is not involved in and ultimately will control???
Speaking as someone who has gone on a psychedelic retreat to treat my depression and anxiety and found it life-changing:
I think a lot of the “cutting red tape” abundance-pilled people would be wise to bear in mind that certain things—like medical research and clinical trials—move slowly for a reason. Intervening in medical research via executive order is a ridiculous precedent. There are ways to responsibly advocate for fast-tracking drug approvals and increasing funding for research. Signing a decree is not one of them.
Yeah. I’m all in favor of cutting red tape, and I think the FDA is way too reticent to trust its foreign peers, but what “cutting red tape” often means in practice is “letting researchers experiment on vulnerable people” and “letting companies make wild unproven claims that they profit from”. I wish we had more of a middle ground where informed patients could try things more easily according to their own best judgement, but “informed” is tough with guys like RFK and Rogan out there pushing snake oil miracle cures.
The King giveth and the King taketh away. No need for any careful, thoughtful, science-based process. Maybe Rogan would like to be Surgeon General.