Trump surgeon general pick praised unproven psychedelic therapy, said mushrooms helped her find love
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President Donald Trump’s new pick for surgeon general wrote in a recent book that people should consider using unproven psychedelic drugs as therapy and in a newsletter suggested her use of mushrooms helped her find love.

I looked at her Wikipedia page for all of ~15 seconds and I found this gem.

Means has spoken in support of raw milk, stating, “When it comes to a question like raw milk, I want to be free to form a relationship with a local farmer, understand his integrity, look him in the eyes, pet his cow, and then decide if I feel safe to drink the milk from his farm.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Means

  • EllenKelly [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I would imagine a big part of the ‘anti mushroom’ sentiment in the press is that they’re not currently controlled by bayer-bayer. They’re already in the same drug class as heroin in aus, and seeing celebrities go off about how ‘i could never love a man until i was high’ or whatever her point is, pretty frustrating

    heroin helped my mental health too, both these things being unregulated blackmarket drugs is what makes them dangerous imo

    I think psychedelecic therapy is tenatively legal here, but its guided with a tripsitter counsellor, which is probably better than eating mushrooms you find in a park and rolling around in the garden by yourself

    • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      1·
      15 hours ago

      Oh it’s all “touch grass” this or “logout” that, but when I go on a heroic spirit quest naked on my unmowed front lawn (IT’S FOR THE POLLINATORS JANET) after eating 20 caps I’m somehow being irresponsible?

      So much for the tolerant left.