Joe Rogan: “I want to tell everybody how this happened. I sent President Trump some information. We have a giant opioid problem in this country, obviously. In 2024, more than 80K people died of overdoses. It’s a horrible number, and there are more than 5M people that are addicted to opioids right now in this country.”
“With one dose of Ibogaine, more than 80% of people are free of that addiction. With two doses, it's more than 90%. I sent [Trump] that information.”
“The text message came back, ‘Sounds great. Do you want FDA approval? Let's do it.’ It was literally that quick.”
“These drugs are illegal not because they are harmful, they are illegal because of the 1970 controlled substances act passed by the Richard Nixon administration. They did it to target the civil rights movement and the antiwar movement. It’s not because these drugs harm people.”
“And for 56 years, we've lived under those terrible conditions. We're free of that now. We're free of that now, thanks to all these people that you see next to me, and thanks to President Trump!”
Many thanks to President Trump for bringing common sense action to the issue of psychedelics.
Too many of my friends I deployed with have come home with invisible wounds and when seeking help, are given bags of prescription drugs by the VA to try to numb the pain, only to make things worse. Friends of mine like Medal of Honor recipient @dakotameyer have shared how receiving treatment with psychedelics have been nothing short of life changing and lifesaving.
President Trump took historic action today by signing a deeply impactful Executive Order that will open the doors to advance psychedelics research and treatment for our veterans and all Americans battling addiction and post traumatic stress. Stanford studies of this kind of treatment show an 88% drop in PTSD symptoms, 87% in depression & 81% in anxiety—one month later, veterans went from moderate disability to none.
This action is long overdue and could save countless lives.