Rick Perry

He hated hippies.

He hated blacks.

And one of the ways you could go after them was to go make these compounds schedule one, which he did.

Schedule one says there is no medical purpose for it and it is highly addictive.

Ibogaine fits neither of those.

Ibogaine is not an addictive compound by any sense of the imagination.

No, at all.

We are proving without a doubt...

to the Texas legislature, to legislatures across this country, in Mississippi, in Tennessee, in Arizona, West Virginia, that it does have a medical purpose, that there are some extraordinary things that can happen for their citizens who have PTSD, who have sexual trauma, who have

addictions.

I mean, saving lives by the thousands, hundreds of thousands, I will suggest to you, when this is approved across the country and we see it as a relatively easily studied and accessed by medical care compound.

So that story of seeing these two young men

who have given everything, literally, up to willing to give their lives, and a lot of their friends did, for our freedoms and our liberties in this country.

And for us to say to them, oh, sorry, you can't have access to this because, you know, President Nixon said this was bad stuff back 60 years ago, and it was taken off the shelf as a Schedule I drug, put over here, and for 60 years,

Americans have suffered through so many different eras, the late 90s when the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma comes along.

And we literally, I think one of the most demonic things I've seen in my public life is this family who used oxycodone and sold it to America.

as this be-all to end-all.

And then our federal government in the mid-2000s, we didn't know how to deal with these young men who would be put in these horrible conditions and positions of being at war time after time after time, rotation after rotation, tempos that we'd never seen before in the history of mankind, I'll suggest to you.

I mean, Joe, we were at war for 20 years.

20 years during that period of time, there's special operators that were deployed eight, nine, ten times.