Well at least we can all pop some shrooms and trip balls as the world ends.
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Kind of ironic that the multi-decade war on drugs that included things like MDMA, psilocybin, LSD were being done by the cons, as a way to "own the libs":
https://eji.org/news/nixon-war-on-drugs-designed-to-criminalize-black-people/
The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.
The Republican Party has always been full of Republicans.
You can kind of see this as a general win for anybody who is a fan of using psychedelics for treatment of mental health issues, but it's important to point out that both of the people mentioned in the headline have ulterior motives for this move.
Trump wants to get Joe Rogan back on his side after he alienated him with his Iran antics. Joe Rogan is one of the biggest conservative megaphones in the nation and he can't afford to have him be talking shit about MAGA before the midterms, so he'll throw him a bone about this one issue that he doesn't give a fuck about anyway.
Joe Rogan is doing this to be able to hopefully one day self-administer psychedelics, not get meaningful treatment or aid from a professional to guide him through the process and change himself for the better.
I'm not sure which of these two are being more selfish at this point.
Well, it's an EO, too, so can be overturned on a whim, so it might be hard to make any long-term research/business plans based on just an EO, especially from this dumpster fire of a "president".
The Democrats should make it priority #1 to reverse and pave over everything with the taint of donnie on it, but in some cases I fear they may overcorrect, and I hope this is not one of them.
Remember way back like 1 week ago when there was an article saying JoE RoGan TuRnS on MaGa. Fuck that. Once a fascist, always a fascist. Just stop paying attention to him.
I can't wait for the day when we no longer have to hear about these two.
Whenever Rogan has a guest on that I think will surely push back on what Rogan is and has been doing in regards to Trump, I watch it just to see if they will say anything. And I'm disappointed every time. I thought for sure, when I saw Bill Murray was on with Joe Rogan, I thought for sure that Bill Murray was gonna push back, and he didn't at all. I naively thought that someone like Bill Murray might be able to get Rogan to see reason.
And then recently David Cross was on Rogan's show, and David Cross is really funny, and I like him. He's super political and he didn't push back at all. Not even a little bit, it was like, what's happening!? I mean, I don't want to give David Cross a hard time about it, but it's like, why did you go on his show? And then not even say anything about how Rogan has conducted himself with Trump.
I mean, I don’t want to give David Cross a hard time about it, but it’s like, why did you go on his show?
Probably for the exposure to further his career. Disappointing but he may not actually care about what he says he does.
Don't worry the media will still report every time they show their faces or say something stupid
Can’t show your face after your dead.
AI Trump can. shudders
OH GREAT
Joe Rogan did help to get this guy elected. I hope that is remembered during Nuremberg 2.0
If we've built a society where Joe Rogan has political influence then that's our fault more than it is his
Propagandist have always existed and in Nuremberg, they were executed
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took me a few reads to realise the headline wasn't saying he was tripping while signing it
This is only an executive order. We know those are meaningless. I’m curious if there will actually be research on something that could go back to being illegal at any time.
It might be meaningless legally but we've also learned that the various 3 letter agencies just do whatever the fuck he says anyway.
This, and accidentally legalizing hemp weed are possibly the only positive things to come out of this whole debacle
no one tell him about November
https://wakenbakery.net/november-2026-hemp-ban-thc-products/
In November 2025, Congress passed H.R. 5371, which rewrites the federal definition of hemp to use total THC instead of just delta-9. This means THCA — which converts to delta-9 when heated — now counts toward the legal threshold. The law also caps finished products at just 0.4mg total THC per container, which would make even a single 5mg gummy illegal.
What Products Are Affected?
- THCA flower — Raw hemp flower that converts to THC when smoked or vaped. Sales have surged 340% since 2024.
- Delta-8 and delta-10 THC products — The gas station gummies and vapes that exploded in popularity.
- Hemp-derived delta-9 gummies and edibles — The legal edibles sold at cannabis cafes and online.
- HHC products — Synthesized from hemp-derived CBD.
- THC beverages — Infused seltzers, coffees, and lemonades.
Fuck.
I'm reminded of that early South Park episode where Chef explains that the best way to make a baby cry is to first give it candy.
Then, once the baby is happy, only then do you take it away.
The best way to hurt people is to lift them up first, so the fall back down hurts twice as much...
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This and reducing marijuana to Schedule III are two popular policies that Democrats are fucking stupid for passing up. If Democrats ever regain power, I do hope this might motivate the party to fully legalize marijuana, psychedelics, and other low-risk drugs like amphetamines.
If Democrats rescheduled marijuana, they wouldn't be able to use the issue to win future elections. I love how Biden waited until last minute to demand the rescheduling of marijuana. If he had done it any sooner, his attempt might have been successful.
He also ended NAFTA, which was a good move for Mexican proletariat
Didn’t they undo that?
Yea, but doesn't go into effect until November. THCA flower is already banned, but edibles and THCA carts are still legal until then. I'm keeping hope that something will happen before though.
Rogan told reporters he learned about the medical benefits of psychedelics from an interview on his podcast with W. Bryan Hubbard, the CEO of the nonprofit Americans for Ibogaine — who stood next to Rogan in the Oval Office — and former Energy Secretary Rick Perry.
The fuck? Who let Rick “and the third thing i can’t remember” Perry in there??
Joe Rogaine is proof that no matter how much money you have, you can't buy a full head of hair
Perhaps with this easing of restrictions on psychedelics they’ll find some new combination of shrooms, horse dewormer, bleach, and toilet seat coke that will bring it back. At a minimum that combo will have you thinking your hair is back.
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But the same clown killed the NIH....so now we can legally not research anything.
The president also joked about getting ibogaine for himself as he pointed to a study that found that people who took the drug experienced a massive reduction in symptoms of depression and anxiety within a month.
“Can I have some, please? I’ll take some,” he said. “I don’t have time to be depressed. You know, you stay busy enough, maybe that works too. That’s what I do.”
Anybody seen my violin?
I don't believe for a second that he suffers from depression or anxiety. He's a carrier - he induces it in others.
I'm pretty sure that a lot of the horrible shit that comes out of conservatives is their response to their anxieties.
It's kind of like fight or flight. Although most people turn it inwards and recluse, some people become aggressive and turn it outwards in reaction to it.
It can be both
I was planning on doing some independent research on my day off anyway.
Honestly psychedelics turned my opinion on living around when I was younger and I was just messing around recklessly with them (I mean, Not too recklessly, safe tested doses and that, but I’m not a doctor!)
I do not doubt it could be helpful or useful ina therapeutic setting, especially when administered by people who know what they’re doing.
But we all know Trump is doing this to win back Rogan, who he needs to keep the roid bros in line
Trump needs to take some psychedelics.
Psychedelics doesn't magically make a bad person into a good person, just look at Joe Rogan. Though I am all for putting the entire admin deep into a k-hole that they will never escape from
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There is only one cure for lead deficiency. Leading more effectively, ahem.
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While I absolutely hate the mango and I am not a fanboy of the bald dude, I am pretty happy to hear psychedelics will be legal. It was about time, man.
will be legal
Oh you sweet summer child. This is an EO to study them - do you sincerely believe they’re not going to try to sell you new TrumpRx “medicines?” This is not a win as I see it
Yeah, unfortunately this is just making it easier for connected people to do what they want and sell what they want, but plebs are still going to be getting their asses kicked by shithead cops for having suspicious looking multivitamins
Does this do anything if those drugs aren't rescheduled?
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