CNN:  Trump accelerates research on psychedelic treatments

President Donald Trump on Saturday signed an executive order aimed at encouraging expanded research into psychedelic drugs, part of a broader push to explore emerging mental health treatments.

This may be the Trumpiest news ever.

Joe Rogan, a comedian and commentator for mixed martial arts, texted Trump, one of two presidents inducted into a wrestling Hall of Fame1 , and gets an executive order to assist in researching the therapeutic use of psychedelic drugs.

Rogan explained how this happened.

“I want to tell everybody how this happened,” Rogan said from the Oval Office. “I sent President Trump some information.”

“The text message that came back,” Rogan said, “’sounds great, do you want FDA approval? Let’s do it,’” he added that it was “literally that quick.”

For decades, there has been evidence that psychedelic drugs could be very effective in treating depression, addiction and PTSD.  The federal government made it exceedingly difficult for research scientists to get authorization or grants to investigate the possibility.

Establishment Republicans, since Nancy Reagan’s “Just say No!” campaign, were against any suggestion that recreational drugs could be beneficial. 

Establishment Democrats didn’t have any reason to push for solutions to depression, addiction or PTSD because they harvest the ballots of the shambling zombies downtown, many of their activists are taking anti-depressants and former military with PTSD, weren’t going to vote for them.

Trump was never an establishment Republican or Democrat, he just wants to fix problems.

The suicide rate of former military personnel is high and 25% of middle-aged White women are taking serious psychotropic medications.  There is a problem, but political parties didn’t have a reason to encourage research into psychedelic drugs to address it.

When I was 16 years old, taking drivers ed, as we were driving around, my instructor told me a story that stuck with me.  When he’d been in the Korean War, there were opium dens all over.  He said he never tried any of that because he was afraid that he’d like it.  He told the story better, and it made sense.

Fifty years later, my life has worked out better than I would have expected.  I have been lucky or blessed, and that’s because I was clever enough to figure out that I needed my brain if I had any chance of a good life.  Taking drugs that effected my brain would make my brain unreliable.  Too risky.

I don’t have a moral or ethical objection to recreational drugs.  Ten years ago, I had a vague plan to try mind-expanding drugs when I turned 75 and could take risks with my brain.  I know who can supply me and have a friend to chain me to a tree and monitor my experiments.  Now that I’m 66, it’s not so clear that I won’t need my brain.  We’ll see.

There are people with bad brains.  Somehow, their brains got locked into a lane that keeps them deeply unhappy.  If they recognize that, it’s reasonable to try to change their brain patterns.  If there is no scientific research to rely on, they are left with experimentation based on anecdotes from podcasts and Reddit.

I am this close || to taking Sparky’s monthly tick medication because science has done nothing to help my issue.  If my brain kept me unhappy or dysfunctional, and one psychedelic trip could reset my neurologic pathways, I’d probably do it.

It’s better to have research.

Scientists should use those rioting eco-morons in Wisconsin as test subjects, rather than beagles, because their brains are unreliable. 

Google says:

Beagles are the primary dog breed used in laboratory testing due to their small size, docile nature, and trusting, gentle temperament, making them easy to handle.

Beagles are to nice for the necessary research.  They should use pit bulls.

I thought my niece was nuts for getting a pit bull puppy, but apparently if you train them properly, they can be great dogs.  Adopting an adult pit bull from the dog pound seems completely crazy because nobody knows how it was trained or what the dog is capable of doing.  If you own a junk yard, it might make sense.

City dog pounds are chocked full of pit bull mutts with aggressive, mixed up brains.   They aren’t going anywhere.  Use them for psychedelic treatment.  If ibogaine or LCD can turn an abandoned pit bull into a sweetheart, then I’d be convinced.

President Trump deserves credit for moving on this issue.

1 Trump was inducted into the World Wrestling Federation’s Hall of Fame in 2013.  In 1992, Lincoln was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.  His record is 1 defeat in 300 matches.