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Kind of ironic that the multi-decade war on drugs that included things like MDMA, psilocybin, LSD were being done by the cons, as a way to "own the libs":

https://eji.org/news/nixon-war-on-drugs-designed-to-criminalize-black-people/

The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.

The Republican Party has always been full of Republicans.

took me a few reads to realise the headline wasn't saying he was tripping while signing it

You can kind of see this as a general win for anybody who is a fan of using psychedelics for treatment of mental health issues, but it's important to point out that both of the people mentioned in the headline have ulterior motives for this move.

Trump wants to get Joe Rogan back on his side after he alienated him with his Iran antics. Joe Rogan is one of the biggest conservative megaphones in the nation and he can't afford to have him be talking shit about MAGA before the midterms, so he'll throw him a bone about this one issue that he doesn't give a fuck about anyway.

Joe Rogan is doing this to be able to hopefully one day self-administer psychedelics, not get meaningful treatment or aid from a professional to guide him through the process and change himself for the better.

I'm not sure which of these two are being more selfish at this point.

Remember way back like 1 week ago when there was an article saying JoE RoGan TuRnS on MaGa. Fuck that. Once a fascist, always a fascist. Just stop paying attention to him.

Rogan told reporters he learned about the medical benefits of psychedelics from an interview on his podcast with W. Bryan Hubbard, the CEO of the nonprofit Americans for Ibogaine — who stood next to Rogan in the Oval Office — and former Energy Secretary Rick Perry.

The fuck? Who let Rick “and the third thing i can’t remember” Perry in there??

The president also joked about getting ibogaine for himself as he pointed to a study that found that people who took the drug experienced a massive reduction in symptoms of depression and anxiety within a month.

“Can I have some, please? I’ll take some,” he said. “I don’t have time to be depressed. You know, you stay busy enough, maybe that works too. That’s what I do.”

Anybody seen my violin?

Joe Rogaine is proof that no matter how much money you have, you can't buy a full head of hair

Hope this isn't some strange 4-d chess move to have dem ban them because it was associated with trump. I doubt it, but I do fear.

Joe Rogan did help to get this guy elected. I hope that is remembered during Nuremberg 2.0

I can't wait for the day when we no longer have to hear about these two.

I was planning on doing some independent research on my day off anyway.

This is only an executive order. We know those are meaningless. I’m curious if there will actually be research on something that could go back to being illegal at any time.

But the same clown killed the NIH....so now we can legally not research anything.

This, and accidentally legalizing hemp weed are possibly the only positive things to come out of this whole debacle

Trump needs to take some psychedelics.