Republicans in Congress and RFK, Jr. find common ground in using psychedelics to treat traumatized veterans

Driven by a desire to help ex-servicemembers with mental illness, GOP lawmakers led a failed campaign last year to persuade the Biden administration to approve psychedelic drugs.

Now they may have found the ally they need in President Donald Trump’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

“These are people who badly need some kind of therapy, nothing else is working for them,” Kennedy said at a House hearing… “This line of therapeutics has tremendous advantage if given in a clinical setting. And we are working very hard to make sure that that happens within 12 months.”

“I’ve spent years supporting clinical trials to study the use of psychedelics to treat PTSD,” [Texas GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL] told POLITICO. “It’s been a long fight, and it’s taken a lot of grit. I’m grateful Secretary Kennedy is taking this seriously…”  

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The GOP’s embrace of psychedelics is another, and perhaps one of the more jarring, examples of cultural transformation that Trump’s populist politics have brought.

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