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Trump orders more access to psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin, ibogaine * 3
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/17/trump-psychedelics-psylocibin-research/

The president is directing federal agencies to boost research into the drugs and support clinical trials, moves championed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Dan Diamond
Updated April 18, 2026 at 9:33 a.m. EDTtoday at 9:33 a.m. EDT

President Donald Trump on Saturday announced new efforts to boost research into psychedelics and make the drugs available in controlled therapeutic environments.

“If these turn out to be as good as people are saying, it’s going to have a tremendous impact on this country and other countries, too,” Trump said Saturday morning in the Oval Office, as he prepared to sign an executive order. The president was flanked by federal health officials and Joe Rogan, a popular podcaster who has pushed for access to the drugs.

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Trump’s executive order directs new steps from the Food and Drug Administration, which regulates drug safety. The agency would issue new guidance to researchers on how to design clinical trials for drugs such as psilocybin, ibogaine and other serotonin receptors. Those drugs, which also include LSD and MDMA, can cause hallucinogenic effects and are illegal in the United States.

The president also touted the drugs’ potential to help military veterans and other patients dealing with PTSD and cited efforts by the National Institutes of Health, which funds clinical research, to support studies into the drugs. Trump said that the federal government had just committed $50 million in additional funding for ibogaine research.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who joined Trump at the announcement, has championed the idea of using psychedelics to help with depression and mental health conditions. Trump said he had also received a call from Rogan, who encouraged him to make the drugs more available.

The federal government currently categorizes psilocybin, ibogaine and other psychedelics as Schedule I drugs, which means that they have no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. Ibogaine, for instance, has been linked to heart risks. Federal law prohibits the cultivation and possession of Schedule I drugs, except for approved research studies.

Trump said Saturday that any FDA-approved psychedelics would be rescheduled, making them easier to access.

Some drug policy experts criticized Trump’s plan. Kevin Sabet, who was a White House drug policy adviser across three presidential administrations, said the order will “send the wrong message” by encouraging hasty, potentially dangerous research.

“People need to realize there is little to no evidence for most of these drugs and most of the conditions they claim to alleviate,” Sabet, president of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, wrote in a text message.

CBS News first reported parts of Trump’s plan.

Kennedy raised the idea of making psychedelics more available during his independent presidential campaign. He continued to tout the concept after throwing his support to Trump in August 2024 and announcing his “Make America Healthy Again” agenda.

“My mind is open to the idea of psychedelics for treatment,” Kennedy wrote in a September 2024 Instagram post. “People ought to have the freedom and the liberty to experiment with these hallucinogens to overcome debilitating disorders.”

Former Texas governor Rick Perry (R) and former U.S. senator Kyrsten Sinema (I-Arizona) are among the politicians who have cheered ibogaine’s potential to address mental health conditions.

“Few things have moved me like what I’ve witnessed with a psychedelic drug made from a shrub in Africa,” Perry wrote in a Washington Post op-ed last year.

Andrew Kessler, the founder of behavioral health consultancy Slingshot Solutions, said restrictions on psychedelics such as psilocybin — sometimes known as “magic mushrooms” — have hampered research into their clinical applications, despite evidence of their potential.

“The research on psilocybin at the [Department of Veterans Affairs] and elsewhere has been incredibly promising for dealing with PTSD, addiction and other mental health issues,” Kessler said. But he contrasted that work with the need for more federal investments into other ways to support people dealing with those conditions, such as more funding for a federal agency that supports mental health care, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, which has faced cuts and pressure under the Trump administration.

“Even if research on psychedelics is successful, we are years away from it having an impact,” Kessler said. “We are still in crisis mode and need immediate help as well.”

Rachel Roubein contributed to this report.

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Re: Trump orders more access to psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin, ibogaine [Re: Pluviophile] * 1
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That's the president I know! Great Job!

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Re: Trump orders more access to psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin, ibogaine [Re: Harri] * 1
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Re: Trump orders more access to psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin, ibogaine [Re: Pluviophile] * 6
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Who would have ever thought that from our most anti-science politicians would come the most important life changing mental health legislation of a generation. Giving credit where due, even a busted clock is right twice a day.

Putting psychedelics into the hands of suffering people can benefit so many lives and prevent the suicide of countless souls.

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Re: Trump orders more access to psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin, ibogaine [Re: veggie] * 1
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veggie said:
Who would have ever thought that from our most anti-science politicians would come the most important life changing mental health legislation of a generation. Giving credit where due, even a busted clock is right twice a day.

Putting psychedelics into the hands of suffering people can benefit so many lives and prevent the suicide of countless souls.



It really could be a giant step in the right direction. Good faith can do wonders, let us not forget!

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Re: Trump orders more access to psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin, ibogaine [Re: Harri] * 3
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They will call off ibogaine trials, its pretty dangerous in terms of cardiac risk:


A 2023 review found 58 ibogaine-associated emergencies, including 38 deaths. Two of these deaths occurred in the setting of clinical studies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibogaine#Adverse_effects

That's a lot of deaths. If it was a grey area drug it would banned with numbers like those. I predict this won't go far.

Shrooms on the other hand are the safest drug in the world, good luck

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Re: Trump orders more access to psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin, ibogaine [Re: Mysterio]
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The government needs to lace meth with dmt.



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Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
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Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

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Re: Trump orders more access to psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin, ibogaine [Re: Pluviophile]
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Freaking awesome 👏🏻


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Re: Trump orders more access to psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin, ibogaine [Re: Nifflerz] * 3
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I imagine it it'll go just like his EO to "reschedule" cannabis... nowhere.

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Re: Trump orders more access to psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin, ibogaine [Re: Harri] * 1
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Harri said:
That's the president I know! Great Job!



:waitthatsbad:


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Re: Trump orders more access to psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin, ibogaine [Re: Mysterio]
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Mysterio said:
They will call off ibogaine trials, its pretty dangerous in terms of cardiac risk:


A 2023 review found 58 ibogaine-associated emergencies, including 38 deaths. Two of these deaths occurred in the setting of clinical studies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibogaine#Adverse_effects

That's a lot of deaths. If it was a grey area drug it would banned with numbers like those. I predict this won't go far.

Shrooms on the other hand are the safest drug in the world, good luck



But that does suggest the deaths usually result from improper or inadequate practices at some of these non-medical ibogaine retreats. I was curious, so I read more about these deaths in supposedly medical settings. And they don't seem to have occurred with reputable places at all.

Here is one case:

Quote:
A third patient of Provider 1 died during treatment
before they were formally enrolled. Of 13 participants
enrolled through Provider 2, one voluntarily left the
study at eight months and a second was lost to follow
up at 11 months post-treatment. The fatality was the
subject of two investigations, a coronial inquiry and the
second involving New Zealand’s Health and Disability
Commissioner (HDC). The latter, completed first,
described the treatment provider as being in breach of
their duty of care but did not offer a medical explanation for the death (22)



So an investigation found that the provider had a breach of care. Sounds like something went wrong for which they are liable, and it wasn't the fault of ibogaine inherently. With proper cardiac screening deaths could be reduced to very low I imagine, possibly even lower than standard medications.

Also keep in mind that its efficacy is for opioid addiction, which in this country is life-threatening. Since it may save lives, and since some have claimed efficacy from ibogaine when no other drugs helped, it's worth exploring.

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Re: Trump orders more access to psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin, ibogaine [Re: Mysterio] * 1
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I saw a MAPS presentation about eliminating the cardiac risk using high dose magnesium. There are ways

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Re: Trump orders more access to psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin, ibogaine [Re: Pluviophile]
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Here is a 2024 paper on “Effects of hallucinogenic drugs on the human heart”

“ review the inotropic and chronotropic actions of bufotenin, psilocin, psilocybin, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), ergotamine, ergometrine, N,N-dimethyltryptamine, and 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine in the human heart.”

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/pharmacology/articles/10.3389/fphar.2024.1334218/full


“ One can summarize our review in the following way for inotropy in the human atrium: ergometrine is solely an agonist at H2-histamine receptors. Psilocin, psilocybin, DMT and 5-Me-DMT are solely agonists at 5-HT4-serotonin receptors. Finally, LSD is a dual agonist at H2-receptors and at 5-HT4-receptors. At least proarrhythmic side effects should be considered and treated using approved drugs that are antagonistic to the 5-HT4-serotonin or H2-histamine receptors. Controlled clinical trials should be initiated to make the therapeutic use of hallucinogenic drugs safer.

In the famous and unfortunate Victoria wellness retreat death of Rachel Dixon:

Ms. Dixon reportedly became ill after consuming a mushroom-based drink during a workshop and subsequently suffered a suspected cardiac arrest. The medical examiner also suggested “wood lovers paralysis” to be a contributing factor to her passing (RIP Ms D).

A controversial topic on this site is the use of and effectiveness of antihistamines for the treatment of wood lovers paralysis.

While the paper doesn’t specifically mention wood lovers paralysis, it does suggest a connection between heart attacks, psychedelic drug use, and the histamine receptors.

The connection between histamine receptors and wood lovers paralysis has been heavily discussed on this site since 2014 after Benadryl was used to treat WLP.

I don’t wanna keep talking about WLP, but it’s difficult to discuss this topic involving antihistamines without addressing the elephant in the room…

The data from the 2024 paper seems to suggest, there are situations where taking the right antihistamine could lower your chances of experiencing a heart attack and/or other ill effects from ibogaine and other psychedelic drug use.

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Re: Trump orders more access to psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin, ibogaine [Re: djbabyjesus] * 1
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People are still getting locked up in republican states for weed while Rogan smokes joints and talks about psychedelics in Texas. It's all so ass backwards, I'll take it but it doesn't make sense to not just outright decriminalize first.


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Re: Trump orders more access to psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin, ibogaine [Re: Harri]
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The sheep says, "Baaaahhh!".

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Re: Trump orders more access to psychedelics like LSD, psilocybin, ibogaine [Re: Pluviophile]
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Probably the only good thing to happen under this presidency, though I have a hunch they'll find some way to fuck the duck and ruin it for the next 5 generations.


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