Politico November 11, 2024
POLICY PUZZLE
Donald Trump’s return to the White House could be a bright spot in an otherwise brutal year for the psychedelic medicine movement.
How’s that? The President-elect has said he wants Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be part of his health care team, and psychedelics are at the top of a list of things, including raw milk, chelating compounds and sunshine, Kennedy alleges the Food and Drug Administration is keeping away from Americans.
“FDA’s war on public health is about to end,” Kennedy wrote on X last month, listing “aggressive suppression of psychedelics” among the regulatory decisions he wants to reverse.
“If you work for the FDA and are part of this corrupt system, I have two messages for...