The DEA asked HHS to move psilocybin from Schedule I to Schedule III, allowing medical research and prescription. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is leading the effort after his son recovered from addiction through psychedelics and RFK Jr. used them himself extensively.
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The DEA asked the Health and Human Services to make a recommendation on rescheduling psilocybin off of Schedule 1, and that's run by RFK Jr., so they don't need Congress or anything. This is like, medically, we're saying that we're agreeing this has medical value, so let's move it to Schedule 3 where doctors can research it and prescribe it. That's interesting. Like, uh, yeah, okay. I wonder— He's had a, he's had a major psychedelic journey. He's had several of them, and it's son was saved with from addiction. So he's already on board. I think he's more, he has to do his internal fighting with people and say, I'm doing this. Look at the data. And you know, when Trump rescheduled, announced the rescheduling of marijuana, Trump was like, I'm not even for this, but like people in my circle, they're for it. So like, I, I gotta listen. They're the experts, not me, you know? And so I think the same thing's gonna happen for