Posted on 06/18/2023 5:18:28 PM PDT by Libloather
Sen. John Fetterman offered full-throated support for psychedelics as a form of mental health therapy, bringing the emerging drug reform movement to Capitol Hill.
Fetterman, the junior senator from Pennsylvania, made the comments on Wednesday during Senate Agriculture subcommittee hearing, saying he’s “been an advocate of psychedelics in terms of magic mushrooms for PTSD and for veterans especially.”
“I always thought it could be - and maybe I’m wrong - an amazing economic kind of boom for the mushroom [sector],” said Fetterman, as quoted by the website. “I think it could be a revolution in mental health.”
Fetterman, a Democrat who was elected to the United States Senate last year, asked Pietro Farms owner Chris Alonzo, who was testifying at the hearing, if he was “open to thinking of that.”
Alonzo, whose Pennsylvania-based farming cooperative grows white and portobello mushrooms, said his company is “absolutely open.”
“We’re entrepreneurs, but more importantly, we’re trying to create healthy food for the community, for the U.S.,” Alonzo said. “When we look at it, mushroom mycelium goes into products like furniture and soaking up oil - and the nutrition side of mushrooms we got through research through [the U.S. Department of Agriculture] with the mushroom council.”
Fetterman is the chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research. Wednesday’s hearing “focused on agricultural and economic issues critical to Pennsylvania, including expanding crop insurance to cover mushroom farmers, advocating research into psychedelic mushrooms for veterans and others with PTSD, combatting spotted lanternflies, and promoting organic farming,” according to a press release from the senator’s office.
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What a retard.
With advocates like Fetterman ...
Thanks for the “entertainment” PA.
5.56mm
Oh yeah
This is great. Fett will serve as a powerful anti-drug force. Just show kids some videos of Fett in action and they’ll be scared to touch drugs
I think I have discovered Fetterman’s problem!
On a side note, his insistence is dressing so casually and sloppily is an insult to the position which he holds and to the voters of this country. That one thing ticks me off to no end!
/bingo
I don’t have a problem with this under the right conditions. There’s plenty of evidence from medical studies showing benefits from these kinds of treatments.
If shrooms are beneficial to PTSD, then why is the economic boom so important?
And Florida came very close to getting Gilliam as governor. My guess is that a lot of the drug-whacked got through to our federal and statehouses
That’s right.
Just like Brandon.
Great...a nation of Fettermans on magic mushrooms in addition to the 100,000 dead per year due to fentanyl. Just what we need.
QUIT WASTING THE PEOPLE'S TIME!
“magic mushrooms for PTSD and for veterans especially.”
What would that fraud know about what veterans need?
“That one thing ticks me off to no end!”
Two things — he’s a full retard and he dresses like an absolute PIG.
Just another example of why these people should be drug and alcohol tested on a regular basis. If I test positive I lose my job. They should be held to the same standards. Could probably clean up the majority!
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