Mattha Busby

And then one of the key ones is that end of life patients will be given the right to try.

And this is a sort of system that Trump actually introduced in his first term.

And he gave a long sort of monologue actually in the Oval Office about how proud he is of this.

So it seems that Ibogaine won't be the kind of thing those patients will be doing, but psilocybin, maybe to make peace with their death, which there has been research on.

And then more widely, they said that they're going to fast track the reviews of other psychedelics.

So that's going to be two kinds of psilocybin drugs for two kinds of depression.

And a lesser known drug, methylene, that's like a milder version of MDMA.

And Trump said that any drugs that will be approved will then be rescheduled, so moved out of Schedule 1, which he then followed up this meeting by downscheduling cannabis a couple of weeks later.

So, yeah, you're really seeing a flurry of things happening here.

I mean, for a Republican president to be doing it as well is, you know, and for it to be Trump, the man who says he's never even had a drink, had a trip, had a cigarette, is really far-fetched.

I think I said in my piece, you could be forgiven for thinking that you were hallucinating when you saw the scene.

Yeah, obviously he wants to curry favour with this sort of like manosphere kind of Joe Rogan listener constituency.

But yeah, at the same time, it was reported in the Washington Post that the executive order had already been being drafted up rather at the time that Joe Rogan made this ask.

I mean, it's certainly a welcome distraction for him, right?

Like a time when they're clearly losing, not winning in Iran.

But as I said earlier, I think the veteran stories are really difficult to refute.

22 veterans are dying on average every day from suicide.

He said in the Oval Office, it's like 21 times the amount of service people that have died on the battlefield since 9-11.

So this is a really, really horrendous issue.

And