W. Bryan Hubbard

that will not move in response to the genuine needs of the American people at the pace that it needs to.

There are a variety of well-intentioned reformers within the current administration, Secretary Kennedy, Secretary Collins, and others, who have voiced their support for the advancement of plant medicine as breakthrough treatments primarily for U.S.

war fighters, but also for other members of our society for whom these medications could help.

We believe that these individuals are stymied by two realities.

The first reality is the Byzantine complexity of the federal bureaucracy, the degree to which it has been compromised by the institutional capture of much of its functioning by companies that make money on keeping problems alive.

We think they're probably also stymied by perhaps some other political cross currents within the administration that view psychedelics with skepticism and that are therefore willing to be indiscriminate in their resistance to the advancement of any of them when in fact the advancement of this one is of existential critical importance as a breakthrough treatment for millions of Americans who need it now.

And so to that end,

Americans for Ibogaine, following the Texas success, convened a gathering of 200 people in Aspen, Colorado, in November of last year.

These individuals were invited, appointed, and elected state officials from 22 individual states and aligned citizens of influence who would be willing, as the Texans were here, to get behind efforts in state legislatures to create –

a partnership with Texas that by end result will form the unstoppable external force through the states that can crash through the federal wall using not just their resources, but their political influence to execute one unified FDA drug development trial and to force the federal government to be responsive to everything that is required to ensure it is successful.

So as we sit here today, we have been working with elected officials in Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Maryland, Michigan, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Vermont, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, South Dakota, and California, each of whom have legislators who are willing to introduce and to pursue bills to join their states into Texas as is trial.

Governor Perry and I spoke to the American Legislative Exchange Council as keynote speakers on December 5th of last year.

This is an umbrella think tank organization for center-right, mostly Republican legislatures from across the country.

In its entire existence, ALEC has taken two positions when it comes on the war on drugs.

More prison, more penalties.

More prison, more penalties.

Add if and add them.

After we spoke about the necessity of Ibogaine's medical integration into the United States and the capacity of the states to force this reality into being, Alec issued a formal position statement as well as model legislation endorsing what we call the American Ibogaine Initiative to bring the states all together to make this happen with one unified voice.

And so now, as we sit here with you today,

In the state of Tennessee, there are two bills, one each in the State House and the State Senate, that are making its way through that legislature to join Texas.