Trump’s Push for Psychedelic Therapies Puts Counterculture Aside
Presidential Order to Accelerate Treatments Consecrates Right-Wing Adherence to Mind-Altering Substances
Donald Trump’s executive order directing his government to expedite access to treatments with ibogaine, MDMA, and psilocybin, while not unforeseen, has stunned those who have been in the field of mind-altering substances for longer. Centuries or millennia, in the case of Indigenous peoples, or decades, in the